In the 'day', it was a giant among disk drives. The first wave of ten thousand RPM consumer drives that were not based on SCSI connections. Now this is almost a dinosaur of a diskdrive. The 10,000 RPM market is crowded with manufacturers, formats, raid, ncq, and eclipsed by the tidal flow of solid state drives. This drive runs a little warmer than the average. Definately a faster drive than all the 7200 and 5400 RPM ones. Expect a boost in startup and program activation. This cannot fix weak CPU or too little or too slow memory. It will not give a great windows experience number, whatever that really means. It will provide a workhorse of fast diskdrive for you. This 36GB drive was $11 for me and will be a great system drive.
I bought it to be a fast system drive, and it does the job. It's reliable and sturdy but fairly noisy -- I have a larger 7200 RPM hard drive for data which is virtually silent, so the difference is rather stark! That doesn't bother me, though. I'm grateful for a system drive I can keep physically separated from my data. You certainly don't need more than 40 GB for an OS and programs, unless you're doing some heavy duty stuff, in which case, you'll be looking at higher-end stuff than this anyway! Interestingly, this model has both an SATA and traditional 4-pin power connector, so you don't have to buy or supply an adapter.
Used hard drives are a great way to boost performance in a game or media center computer. I don't recommend used drives for bookkeeping at your business but a great tool to upgrade computer performance for non critical data. For high speed with high duty cycle without a lot of investment the Western Digital Raptor hard drives seem the easiest upgrade after adding Ram to extend the useful life of your older desktop computers when installed inside the towers. My older Pentium 4 with a clean re-install of XP pro and additional ram makes another couple of years use a lot easier.
I had given feedback on this but I guess they want more. I had purchased it and had it for a week and to no avail, IT CRASHED. I mean died completely. Shows no volume and it spins but does not even show up on an external case set up and plugged in to me own computer. ( I was going to use this in a customers build) I have used many of these in raid con fig but It just pooped out. I hate buying stuff with no return or as is. Never know what your going to get. I have a few saved sellers that I like to use because they have worked with me in times like this.
Nice drives .. .not the best and very small ... but cheap for the improved I/O ... if you can sacrafice size for a bit of quility then these are yours if you can find a good price.
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