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WD Caviar Green Hard Drive - 500GB SATA II 16MB Retail Kit | 
 enlarge | Brand: Western Digital
Category: CE
List Price: $190.08
Buy New: $58.75
You Save: $131.33 (69%)
New (26) from $58.75
Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 12606
Media: Electronics
Memorabilia: No
System Memory: 16
Hard Drive Size: 500
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 6.9 x 3.9
MPN: WD5000CSRTL
Model: WD5000CSRTL
UPC: 718037728032
EAN: 0718037728032
ASIN: B0013FVZWI
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Reduced power consumption | | • | Helps enable eco-friendly PCs | | • | Cool and quiet | | • | Perfect for external drives | | • | NoTouch ramp load technology |
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Product Description
That's a comfortable storage capacity for lots of audio, video, and photo downloads. The Western Digital WD5000CSRTL Caviar GP 500GB Hard Drive is designed to install into an available 3.5" internal drive bay of your desktop PC. Using SATA connectivity, data transfer speeds can zoom up to 3GB per second. IntelliPower adjust drive rotation speed to maximize energy efficiency without compromising performance and speed. So now you can download more movies, more videos, and more audio. You've got 500GB of reliable storage on this dependable hard drive from Western Digital. IntelliPower gives you fine-tuned balance of spin speed, transfer rate, and caching to deliver both significant power savings and solid performance 11.0 sec average seek time IntelliSeek and IntelliPark features help lower power consumption Perpendicular Magnetic Recording achieves great areal density Pre-emptive Wear Leveling proactively monitors and prevents magnetic wear during high read/write duty cycle applications Compatible with Desktop PC
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| Customer Reviews:
 Deception by WD September 17, 2008
Slim Pickens
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a large drive for the price. However, the performance of this drive is not up to par. I figured the whole "Green Power" tagline was mostly just marketing and that perhaps it had a more efficient motor. Turns out it actually achieves it's power savings through poor performance. Pretty much every consumer grade drive out there today spins at 7200 RPMs. Not this drive. Nobody actually knows how fast it spins since WD doesn't publish it. One thing we do know is that it spins at less than 7200 RPMs. I think the main problem is that WD is not up front about all this. I've had good success with WD drives, but this is not a winner for me.
 500GB Sata II 16MB-RETAIL Kit September 7, 2008
William Batke (Charlestown Indiana)
Drive is quiet and quick. Currently using it for my pvr. Would purchase again.
 Transfer rate is the price you pay May 7, 2008
S. Carlson
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
The transfer rate is half the rate of the non-green version.
This model is rated: Transfer Rate = 145MB/sec
WESTERN DIGITAL WD5000 CSRTL April 24, 2008
John Travis Wagner
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This drive is definetly quite. You can not even hear it. If you have a dell and you install the drive be sure to turn on the sata link on the mother board by pushing F2 and following the instruction to turn on the sata link. If not your computer will not recongnize it. Like mine did. But this drive is simply awsome. For I have tons of music, pictures and games and now I can feel at ease that this drive was for me. This drive also comes with software to partition and drive to drive copy. It did take over an hour and half for the drive to format itself. I would recommend this drive to anyone and sense its more energy efficiant than the other sata 500gb drive gives this drive a two thumbs up. This drive also has the same specs as the other western digital 500gb drive.
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