Western Digital WD2500JB, WARNING - not what the..
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WARNING - not what the description says!
The description for this product says “Full kit includes drive cables, installation and management software, and illustrated instructions”. All I got was an OEM drive… just the drive with no cable, rails, software, instructions or anything else. I don’t know if an underpaid stockboy just screwed up or what, but everyone should be aware.
I’m keeping it because I just wanted the bare drive anyway, but I wanted to warn others who might be counting on the additional items.
Update (5/20/2012): This item is currently on sale here for the lowest price I’ve seen. I also found some auctions for this item here.
The featured review for this product, Western Digital WD2500JB Caviar SE EIDE 250 GB Hard Drive Electronics, was written by J. Barber.
The average rating for this item is out of 5 stars, according to 3 reviews.
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Tags: 250gb, computer, eide, hard drive, hard drives, hardware, internal, internal disk, internal hard drives, mac, mac hard drive, macintosh hard drive, western digital
Posted on: May 12, 2010
Filed under: Reviews
Reviews (3)
Chase
April 7th, 2010 at 10:31 pm
Download Data Lifeguard Tools from WDC support first
Purchased this drive to replace a smaller 13GB slave unit (also a WD drive that had worked flawlessly for over 8 years but was unable to keep up with the storage demands of our new 7MP digital camera). The package contained only the bare bones drive unit itself, no documentation, no software, nothing else. That was fine for my case but could cause concern for some first-timers. I first just set the jumper on the new unit to the slave position, changed out the drives and restarted the system (Window XP Home). The new hardware detection ran OK and the new device showed up as operating correctly in Device Manager, but it was not visible in My Computer because it was not yet partitioned & formatted. After downloading the “Data Lifeguard Tools” program from the Western Digital support web site, and running the program to modify the registry for high-capacity drives, restart and partition/format process, all was well.
J. Barber
April 22nd, 2010 at 5:28 pm
WARNING - not what the description says!
Rated 3 stars.
Bruce Ensberg
May 7th, 2010 at 3:05 pm
No complaints with this drive
I bought this drive to replace a smaller drive that was starting to make scary noises. The formatting, partitioning, and disk copy software worked as advertised, but the system didn’t initially recognize it when I configured it as the master drive. I had to fiddle with the jumpers, but once I got that figured out it was fine.
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