WD Blue 160 GB Desktop Hard Drive: 3.5 Inch, 7200 RPM, PATA, 8 MB Cache - WD1600AAJB

I purchased this hard drive to replace the 60GB hard drive in my HP Pavilion 742n purchased back in 2002. There was nothing wrong with the old hard drive and it had alot of free space left. The HP system recovery is on the D partition of the hard drive, and not on seperate CDs. If the hard drive did go South, I would have to purchase another operating system. I intended to install the WD hard drive and keep the old one as a back up in the event I needed to re-install the operating system. As stated, this is a bulk OEM package. All you get is the hard drive, no cables or attaching screws. I've been in the computer case before to clean out the dust bunnies from the cooling fans, upgrade the memory, and replace the CD writer with a DVD burner. This seemed to be a little more involved and made me a little anxious. In the end, it turned out to be very easy. The ribbon cable connected to the hard drive had provisions to connect two devices. The connectors were clearly marked with "primary" and "slave." I left the jumper settings on both hard drives to "cable select" and connected the WD hard drive to the "slave" connector. There is a diagram printed on the hard drive showing the jumper settings for the different configurations. I did alot of research beforehand on cloning software and decided to just use the Acronis cloning software available from the WD website. The cloning software will only work if it detects a WD component. It was easy to use and pretty much self explanatory. Once the cloning was done, I removed the old hard drive and attached the WD hard drive to the primary connector. The computer booted right up without any problems. I decided to test out the HP system recovery (pressing F10 when you see the blue HP logo) and it didn't boot into the HP system recovery. It just rebooted back to Windows. From what I could determine, it has to do with the partition configuration, which I haven't quite figured out yet, and frankly don't have any plans to at this point. When you do a system recovery, the computer reverts to as it was out of the box, with all the annoying programs that it came with and none of the programs you installed. I have everything set up just like I want it on the old hard drive. If anything should happen, I can just use it to re-install everything. The hard drive is very quiet, in fact, I can't even hear it! All in all, I think this a great product at a very reasonable price and a great way to update an older computer.

Nachdem meine alte Festplatte nicht mehr genug Speicherplatz für meine Bedürfnisse hatte, habe ich für meinen alten Rechner eine günstige und einigermaßen schnelle Festplatte gesucht. Dabei bin ich auf die Western Digital WD1600AAJB-KIT gestoßen. Die Platte ist recht günstig und versprach halbwegs schnelle Zugriffszeiten. Also legte ich mir diese Platte zu. Ich muß sagen ich bin sehr zufrieden damit: - sehr leise - schnelle Zugriffszeiten - für meinen alten Rechner mehr als genug Speicherplatz - relativ günstig Ich würde mir diese Platte jederzeit wieder zulegen! Nachtrag: Die Festplatte funktioniert immer noch bestens. Konnte sie mitlerweile (habe jetzt einen anderen PC) mit einer SATA-Platte im selben Rechner vergleichen. Meine WesternDigital IDE wird mit der Leistungsinformation von Windows7 mit 5,9 bewertet, die SATA-Platte (Maxtor) bringts nur auf 5,3.

El viejo ordenador de mi esposa, con un disco duro de 20 GB estaba dando problemas dado que tenía muy poco espacio libre. Había tenido que desinstalar los programas que apenas utilizaba, para liberar espacio. La decisión de comprar el nuevo disco, con la intención de "clonar" el antiguo, mediante la aplicación de Western Digital "True Image" de Acronis, me ha permitido ahorrarme el trabajo de reinstalar en el nuevo HDD todos los programas, incluso el sistema operativo. Todo ha funcionado perfectamente y tras la clonación he desinstalado el viejo disco, quedando el nuevo como "único" en el sistema.

Two of my PC desktop computers, about 7 years old, recently developed starting and freezing problems with their 80G hard drives. I have now bought two of these Western Digitals to replace them and so far am delighted with their performance and quiet running. Initialising and formatting them before use was easy and trouble-free. Note I bought this Caviar because it is equipped for running with the traditional wide PATA information cable. Not long ago Hard Drives of this sort of storage capacity were much more expensive, so this represents great value for money.

Consegnato dopo 2 giorni dall'ordine al prezzo di 30 Euro. E' un HDD con uscita IDE, l'ho comprato per installarci il sistema operativo. Veloce e affidabile come tutti i prodotti WD. Nulla di negativo da esporre.