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Western Digital WD3200JBRTL Caviar 320 GB PATA Hard D... |
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Western Digital WD3200JBRTL Caviar 320 GB PATA Hard Drive |
| Product DescriptionCool-running, quiet operation, superior performance and industry-leading reliability makes this next-generation WD Caviar SE drive the perfect hard drive for desktops and enterprise storage. Reviewshaven't receive the item in a month, already asked to return the item online since I can't wait any more. Terrible service on product shipping. Never have this kind of problem with Amazon before.
I was replacing a HD for a neighbor, a six year old Gateway. The new Hd didn't exactly fit into the Gateway as the old one was in a slot and held there by moving a lever to tighten into place. The new one was not the same size as was indicated in the ad there fore I had to do a little modification on the box to get it to stay in place.
Mechanically wise the Western Digital WD3000JBRTL Caviar 320 GB worked just fine plugged it in and we were off to the races faster than the one I replaced and much quieter. This should allow the user several more years out of the old Gateway which is in the basement and used by his two boys for games and homework.
I had an 80 Gig WD drive which I had partitioned into 4 partitions. 15, 20, 20, and 20. I ran out of room on my C partition (15 Gig running XP). I needed to fix that and decided to increase my drive to 320 Gig in the process. I was able to set new partitions and increase the size of the C drive using WD cloning S/W. I got an exact clone of the 80 Gig C drive to the 320 Gig C drive and it worked perfectly and faster also. The WD S/W is limited to WD drives only. I plan to repartition the old 80 Gig drive as a ghost for the 320 Gig C partition. Will try to use Clonzilla and not Norton Ghost for this procedure (WD S/W should work also). I was pleased with the $59 price for the 320 Gig and the fast delivery from Amazon.
Great hard drive. Put this in an order IDE PC and it works just like it is supposed to. Large storage without having to buy a SATA PC or trying to convert my older PC to SATA. You do have to remeber if you are loading Windows XP that you will have to start with XP SP2 so you will get the use of the entire drive. Starting with any other verision of XP will limit you to less then half the drive.
I had to slip stream SP2 into a an original copy of XP that came with my PC. Not hard to do. If you don't know how just goggle slip stream XP2.
This is for my second drive for my tower. The original drive is a Western that has lasted so far for 10 years now. I bought a non Western drive for a second hard drive about 3 years ago which died without warning recently that made me lose a whole lot of stuff. Never again, go with what works. You get what you pay for.
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