Good Price , but IMO would spend a bit more and go with a seagate or such with a 5yr warranty... especially Sata drives, they seem to run hotter than Pata drives.

Or you could spend LESS and get a Seagate with a 5 year warranty as they were just selling for $150 recently. They'll be back down to the same price again soon. 1-year warranties are for **** n dimwits. Corp salesmen grin from ear to ear thinking of the suckers they can get to buy their crap with 1 year warranties. Stay away.

1-yr warranty? Gotta be kidding me.. Even the plastic surgeon offers better warranty than that..

Ben, I don't know why you wrote 1 year, but this product carries a FIVE YEAR warranty from Western Digital.

http://support.wdc.com/warranty/policy.asp#policy

You guys are so annoying with the Seagate! Seagate! 5 year! 5 year! Enough already - you are not writing anything so enlightening. Any time a hard drive other than Seagate is posted you fill up all the comments with how it's not as good as seagate, not as long a warranty, blah....

We've had Seagate and Samsung for the 500GB sales lately, and it looks like Western Digital wanted to join the fun. I'm just glad prices went down!

This is the 5yr warranty "raid edition" version of this drive. The "KS" model has a 1 year warranty.

Strangely enough, if you add two of these drives to your cart, you still only get $30 off, not $60 as I had assumed it would be.

Supposedly these drives are some of the best available short of the Seagate 750GB ones performance-wise (besides Raptors of course) and they run cooler and quieter than any other drive in their class.

I want 5 of these for a RAID 5 array, but I'm scared of all the DOA drives reported in the Newegg comments. Almost sounds like a 25% DOA rate on these things.

Prices on these should be dropping soon anyways. Newegg has been slightly overpriced on these and WD should be releasing drives using perpendicular recording very soon.

jshorr, happy to offend your sensibilities by using the word "seagate". SEAGATE. Gotta love those SEAGATES. F U ghetto dog HEAD.

Do you know what happens if you buy a WD drive with a 5 year warr and it fails say in 5 days? you sent it to them and you get another one, this one is "REFERBISHED" and you get a 6 month warranty on the "new" drive. Do you know what happens if you get a seagate with a warr of 5, lets say warr until DEC 2011? you get back another HDD that is STILL warr through Dec 2011, so when you buy seagate, you are basically guarenteed a HDD of that capacity for 5 years. this is from personal experience with both and the RMA process.

#8 does make a lot of sense. Besides, I never had any problems with Seagate before.

This looks like a good deal, but 1 yr warranty is a bit scary. Although i have had many western digital drives before and none has gone bad.

#8, Seagate gives you back a refurbished drive if your new one fails. And Western Digital will put a warranty date on a new drive based on your original drives purpose. I don't know where you got 6 months. If that's true and it happened to you you need to call and have them change it.

#6, the WD5000KS OEM carries a 3 year warranty. The only thing that's 1 year is retail kits.