Western Digital WD1600AAJS 160GB Caviar Se SATA 7200Rpm 8MB Cache SATA Hard Drive
Western Digital WD1600AAJS 160G SATA300 7200RPM Caviar SE Hard Drive Cool, quiet operation, superior performance and industry-leading reliability make these SATA drives ideal for desktop, business, and consumer electronics storage.
Customer Review: high failure rate
While I didn’t purchase these drives from Amazon, I thought I would pass along my experience in the event it helps others make an informed decision. Our company recently performed a tech refresh on a little under 1000 computers. About half of the new computers have this Western Digital hard drive, the other half have a Seagate Barracuda 160 GB SATA drive. Within a month of the new computers being deployed, we are getting an average of 3 failed hard drives a week - all are the Western Digital 160 GB model # WD1600AAJS. The numbers seem too great to be the expected “infant mortality rate” for new hardware one might expect from +/- 500 new computers. All failures are being quickly replaced by the manufacturer since they are under warranty, but the amount of dead hard drives showing up on a regular basis has made me very wary of this model. BTW, no failed Seagate drives have been reported thus far.
Customer Review: Works great in the Linksys NAS 200
I purchased two of these drives for installation in the Linksys NAS 200. The install was easy and the drives are really snappy in the NAS 200. No issues at all. Buy Here