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Hard drive prices have risen this past year (2011). The solution is to consider purchasing a used item. The WD6401AALS was a good solution. There is always the risk of getting something that doesn't work, but Ebay has built in security as well as a path for mediation. The WD is one of the top line platter type hard drives that provide exception performance plus value. In this case, it worked perfectly for me. However, in tests on my system, a similar 500GB drive by Seagate performed somewhat better, but the difference was minimal.
This drive is perfect for the everyday user. It is reliable, fast, cheap, and has the reputation of Western Digital behind it. Also, they are easy to configure for RAID, being of a large capacity, SATA II interface, and 7200 RPM.
Screams. Apopular hard drive tool analyzes throughput at 100Mbps. It certainly feels faster than the 160GB WD SATA drive I removed for the upgrade. So far, so good! A little more money than I wanted to spend ($45+) - but I'm pleased with the investment.
This is a sataII HDD that I am using on my sataIII mobo. Though I am not looking for sataIII performance, I did expected to be faster than my 4 year old seagate which has 16MB cache. This HDD has 32MB cache and dual processors, but that does not make any difference since my old seagate has been doing fine in gaming without problem, and the data transfer rate in both drive is at 60MB/s max.
I've got dozens of these by now and never had a problem with a single one. This must be the one of the most reliable drives ever produced. These also have 5 year warranties from WD. Drives these days are only coming with 1 year warranties unless you go for their Enterprise models, so what does that tell you? This drive was when WD was offering ENTERPRISE quality at CONSUMER price!