WD5000AAKB hard drives. Why so cheap?

[A. J. Moss]

I've been looking at a number of UK online retailers, and their prices
for Western Digital WD5000AAKB (500GB, 16MB cache, PATA) hard disks
all seem to be about 10% less than those for other 500GB disks,
including the WD5000AAJB (8MB cache). Have any reliability issues been
reported for these drives recently, or are the good prices just due to
over-supply?

 

[bornfree]

I've been looking at a number of UK online retailers, and their prices
for Western Digital WD5000AAKB (500GB, 16MB cache, PATA) hard disks
all seem to be about 10% less than those for other 500GB disks,
including the WD5000AAJB (8MB cache). Have any reliability issues been
reported for these drives recently, or are the good prices just due to
over-supply?

No, but you should consider a Samsung Spinpoint 500GB. They are the
best drives, frequently winning awards. The 500GB currently has the
coveted "A-list" award from PC Pro. I have found them to be quieter
than other drives too, as well as very fast and cool running.

 

[Cintaratna Chitrangda]

bornfree <[email protected]>, the prattling-chiseler and naughty
pervert who likes variant one-eyed target practice with bears, and whose
partner is an amateur with a wasted tutu, wrote in

No, but you should consider a Samsung Spinpoint 500GB. They are the
best drives, frequently winning awards. The 500GB currently has the
coveted "A-list" award from PC Pro. I have found them to be quieter
than other drives too, as well as very fast and cool running.

It's just a shame that when they go wrong they do it big-style.


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[A. J. Moss]

No, but you should consider a Samsung Spinpoint 500GB. They are the
best drives, frequently winning awards. The 500GB currently has the
coveted "A-list" award from PC Pro. I have found them to be quieter
than other drives too, as well as very fast and cool running.

The quieter and cooler-running nature of the disks is probably due to
their remarkably high areal density, which allows Samsung to use just
three platters, even for their highest capacity desktop hard drives.
Everyone else uses four platters; Hitachi use five for their 1TB
disks.

Unfortunately they aren't available in a PATA interface. The highest
capacity Samsung PATA drive is 400GB.