Western Digital WD1600JB 160GB Hard Drive

After enduring too many instances of "The Blue Screen of Death," it eventually became apparent that the culprit was a bad HD. Had to buy two as they needed to be identical. The great price and prompt shipping on these gave my aging computer a new 'lease on life!' Now, I like my computer again!

This drive replaced a drive of the same exact model, and as near as I can tell was exactly the same as the old one. That's what I wanted, and that's a good thing.

Installed and works great. I did have to set the jumper, which I had almost forgotten about since going to SATA years ago.

been using wd drives 15 years been happy with them generally dependable trying to upgrade ancient computer some

I have purchased WD hard drives in the past and always been happy. This is a great drive, used it when my husbands computer hard drive died.

got the drive and it was the wrong one.

Product is as advertised, service is excellent.

I bought a WD300BB (30GB) back in '01 and bought a WD1200JB in '02 to act as a back up drive for a few computers. I got it just in time because after less than 18 months the WD300BB got the click of death. So the WD1200JB became the primary drive for a few months until I bought this drive, the WD1600JB in late '03. While the WD1600JB was shipping, the WD1200JB partially died. I was able to use data recovery software to get most of my data onto the WD1600JB, but it got the click of death in less than a month! 3 dead drives in less than just over 2 years! Western Digital, NEVER AGAIN! I still have a 2GB Seagate from 1996 that works just fine! The rest of my drives are Maxtor, Seagates, and a Hitachi in my laptop. No other brand has failed me so badly as Western Digital.