Rating: 
Summary: Conclusion should consider it.
Review: Conclusion Packing just two platters, the WD400BB is indeed a quiet and cool design. Active cooling should be unnecessary in most cases. Even when seeking, the drive is quiet. Though not as silent as units from Fujitsu or Samsung, the drive is nonetheless quieter than recent units from Maxtor, themselves not exactly roaring disks. The 400BB's WinMark scores shatter previous records... they stand in a class of their own. IOMeter scores, though not staggering, represent improvement over previous models (and some of the competition, for that matter). When combined with quiet and cool operation, such performance makes WD's unit a viable alternative to the Quantum Fireball LM (fast but noisy) and, depending on final pricing, the Deskstar 75GXP (fast but relatively pricey). Those looking for a drive smaller than 40 gigs should consider it.
Rating: 
Summary: Never ever ever buy this HD, erased all my data
Review: I bought this HD one year ago, I had tons of information like my personal files, also 3000 songs, 250 photos, including the last three digital photos I took to my Dad before he passed away, and all are gone. I could maybe forget the whole thing, but I can't have my photos back. I tried to solve the problem, paid money, did everything possible to see if someone could fix it...what a mistake, I can't believe it...
Rating:
Summary: Crash and Burn - Don't Buy it
Review: I echo Travis' comments. It came with my Dell PC and took away over 3 Gigs of data (Source Code,Images Documents etc everything !!!) by crashing 1 and half year later. What a waste. Not even worth the single star.
Rating:
Summary: Crash and Burn - Don't Buy it
Review: I echo Travis' comments. It came with my Dell PC and took away over 3 Gigs of data (Source Code,Images Documents etc everything !!!) by crashing 1 and half year later. What a waste. Not even worth the single star.
Rating: 
Summary: Great Disk-To-Disk Copy Software
Review: I had a 20-Gig, IBM drive on my 3-year-old P-2, W98 system and upgraded to the Western Digital 40-Gig not so much for the increased storage but for the 7200 rpm spin speed, hoping for a performance improvement. It indeed improved. The first and most noticable was when my desktop (cluttered, LOTS of icons plus Office toolbar) came up MUCH more quickly than before. Plus, the drive is VERY quiet - cannot hear it clicking away like my former. I replaced my current drive 0 with this unit and the supplied software made the disk-to-disk transfer very easy (although it took almost 4 hours for the copy.) The software even detected and FIXED the fact that my BIOS wouldn't recognize a drive of greated than 32 Gig. The only problem I had was not being able to boot after doing the copy and replacing my old drive. Tech Support got to me within 2 minutes and supplied a remedy (jumper settings) within 5 minutes.
Rating:
Summary: No problems so far
Review: I have 4 operating systems on this hard drive. I haven't had any problems using Win98/2k/xp, Red Hat Linux. The one thing to note that the version that I needed required a firmware update to get it to work correctly with Linux which you can download at the Western Digital Website. For those who do Software mirroring and stripping implementations. I can verify that it works under Windows 2k and xp.
Rating:
Summary: Excellent Hard Drive Great Price Installs like a Breeze
Review: I purchased this hard drive to use for recording and storing of data and music for burnung to CD's. It is very quite and was very easy to install. The hard drive was also a perfect match to the OEM that came with PC.
Rating:
Summary: Never ever ever buy this HD, erased all my data
Review: Its a GREAT harddrive on its own, but the price really .... I could have bought a 100GB hard drive for less, but amazon.com always gave me the packge, so i bought it here. Its quiet, not like it matters, now my computer lods almost 3 times as fast. And the size is nice and comfy. Should last about 6yrs if you dont try to save space, if ya do well...... A long time..... The 7200rpm makes it NICE! However, the biggest drawback was installing it. Getting it hooked up was easy. I just copied EVERYTHING on my old 10GB hard drive, to the new 40GB hard drive, and it took about an hour, well just do it in the morning, and when your home from work, it should be done ;)
Rating:
Summary: hmmm
Review: Its a GREAT harddrive on its own, but the price really .... I could have bought a 100GB hard drive for less, but amazon.com always gave me the packge, so i bought it here. Its quiet, not like it matters, now my computer lods almost 3 times as fast. And the size is nice and comfy. Should last about 6yrs if you dont try to save space, if ya do well...... A long time..... The 7200rpm makes it NICE! However, the biggest drawback was installing it. Getting it hooked up was easy. I just copied EVERYTHING on my old 10GB hard drive, to the new 40GB hard drive, and it took about an hour, well just do it in the morning, and when your home from work, it should be done ;)
Rating:
Summary: So far so good!
Review: Quieter than maxtor's 40GB hard drive. The install is a cinch. So go ahead, buy it already!
| 
