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sold as new arrived used
This HD was sold to me as new and arrived used with no hardware or paperwork then Amazon charged me for the return

Faulty Hard Drive
Sorry to say folks. As much as i have great respect for WD hard drives. This new 500gig is a total failure. It just doesn't show up on my windows XP,Neither on Linux(mandriva & Ubuntu),neither on the Apple Mac Book. Presently i am disappointed. This hard drive i wanna return for a replacement. Buying this hard drive i would not recommend especially as this happened at a time that i needed space for all my music.

Fast & Quiet
Great drive. It is about a billion times quieter and cooler than my old first gen Raptor, though not as fast. It's also quieter than the striped pair of old 110gb drives it is replacing. It "feels" faster than the raid (0) with those older drives. Recommend this drive.

Noiser than CPU fans
The performance is OK.
It's hot.

Its vibration is too much and cause the whole case to resonant vibrate. That makes lots of noise, bigger than all fans in my case.

WD 500gb Drive
The product itself is the best on the market, however, had I gone to a local store and bought it, the package would have contained the LifeGuard installation CD and the cable

When I received this from Amazon, there was no CD no cable, nothing just the hard drive.

I think Amazon should post a package detail list for all products on their site.