Western Digital WD800JBRTL Caviar Special Edition Internal 80GB Hard Drive

I bought this drive top add to my main office computer in a RAID system. There are 3 (three) 80GB drives in the computer and this one is mirroring the data drive. SO far it has been 8 months and no problems. In fact all THREE are Western digital drives. The other two came installed on the system and have been running continuously for over a year now. No, I don't turn off my computer unless there is a lightning storm! I am happy! They are whisper quiet and very FAST! I heartily endorse this drive. Read more

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For many years I used and recommended the WD products. I can no longer offer any such advice but would recommend that anyone looking for a quality HDD look elsewhere -- Seagate, Maxtor, Samsung, Hitachi are all superior drives and far more reliable. Both drives simply suffered meltdown failure of the motors, shorting out the computer Power supply until removed-- two different computers at two different times, both being used moderately, not "heavy office" or workstation use. Western Digital was useless and insisted that such failures are rare and likely due to abuse. They know that the 80 GB Drives are faulty and they refuse to "fess up." The government should order a recall and everyone should get a credit to buy some other brand of drive. Even when HD drives were delicate in the early 80's, I never had any just burn up like these bits of WD paperweights. My current favorite recommendation is the new Seagate 160 GB and 250 GB drives, fast, quiet and reliable. Read more

If you are like me you are buying this drive to replace a smaller and slower hard drive. So you want to move all your old data to the new drive and go on like nothing happened, right? Well, I followed their directions on the Data Lifeguard product to the letter and when i booted up off the new drive I had lost functionality in several of my programs. After hours of struggling with it I gave up and just did a clean install of Win XP. Hopefully mine is an isolated case but it is not like I'm running some obscure system. I have a new Dell desktop running Win XP. I think the Data Lifeguard program needs some work. Aside from that, the drive itself is working great so far. Read more

I have no problem so far with the HD. It seems to do its job well, and is quite responsive (quicker than my Maxtor). As far as the Data Lifeguard software...apparently due to some Windows updates, I am unable to use my PowerQuest DriveCopy 4.0 to mirror my old drive to the new (a "Disk Manager" conflict). I had to use the Data Lifeguard, and although it did fine, it created a partition that I did not want. It wouldn't allow me to change the partition sizes, or delete the undesired partition. Since I had to get the data copied, I had to go with that, and will have to address the partition issue separately. Anyway, I'm not too thrilled with the Data Lifeguard software, but the drive is fine. It has a very distinct (yet quiet) sound. Read more

I have tried these hard disks working solo and with RAID, i didn't have any HDD failure, they are fast and quite. What kill's the HDD is the application you are using the HDD for like caching for internet files small size of files and lots of them, this is for sure will destroy the HDD, also there are two impotant things 1. Ventilation 2. Power failure these will reduce the operating life. Read more

I purchased this drive a couple weeks ago. The drive came with an install disk which made it fool proof. Very simple to install. Only time will tell how long it will last but I have had good experiences with Western Digital drives. I believe the drive is a good value for the money. Read more

This drive blows away the comp.! Fast and easy to install. Comes with fool proof software. Makes a fast pc faster! Just buy it and you will be very happy as am I! Read more