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Summary: What are they thinking?
Review: I just cant believe this drive is so expensive here. The exact same HDD is 112 dollars on newegg! Please update your prices!
Rating:
Summary: What are they thinking?
Review: If you, like me, have discovered that the slowest part of your computer is your hard drive this item is for you. They just keep pushing faster cpu clock speeds and bus speeds without any equal improvement to hard drive speeds. This drive is literally twice as fast as my two year old 20 gig drive (which I still use). I have actually timed applications opening and report generation in my business apps on the same machine. I am very impressed.Some pros:
Very fast.
Very reliable (server grade,see WD website)
Included SATA PCI card worked fine. (I don't know if it's included here) Some cons:
You must know what you are doing with your BIOS to enable booting to this drive. It's not rocket science but it could be if your motherboard is more than a year old. Also, take WD's advice and do a clean Win XP install on this drive and then transfer your data from your old drive. This will save you the six or eight hours I spent trying to transfer the whole drive with the formatting and booting etc. Plan your moves before you start. It could be bigger. Thats it. Good luck. It was definitely worth it for me.
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Summary: Very Fast Drive
Review: If you, like me, have discovered that the slowest part of your computer is your hard drive this item is for you. They just keep pushing faster cpu clock speeds and bus speeds without any equal improvement to hard drive speeds. This drive is literally twice as fast as my two year old 20 gig drive (which I still use). I have actually timed applications opening and report generation in my business apps on the same machine. I am very impressed. Some pros:
Very fast.
Very reliable (server grade,see WD website)
Included SATA PCI card worked fine. (I don't know if it's included here) Some cons:
You must know what you are doing with your BIOS to enable booting to this drive. It's not rocket science but it could be if your motherboard is more than a year old. Also, take WD's advice and do a clean Win XP install on this drive and then transfer your data from your old drive. This will save you the six or eight hours I spent trying to transfer the whole drive with the formatting and booting etc. Plan your moves before you start. It could be bigger. Thats it. Good luck. It was definitely worth it for me.
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