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The main harddrive in my computer (about 3ish years old. A western digital 250gb SATA KINGSTON FLASH MEMORY) , I decided to buy the WD5000KSRTL.

After installation (which was harrowing. Bios saw the drive KINGSTON FLASH MEMORY just fine, but Windows didn't want to start up. Zero fault of the drive, just a Windows XP quirk according to forums I read) I formatted the drive (took maybe half an hour) and then I was up and running. I play alot of games, most of which have been bought from the Steam store.

The old driveKINGSTON FLASH MEMORY , having been heavily fragmented, was slowing the load times of my games by a pretty high degree. After installing the new drive, I migrated all of my Steam games over to it (a process that was lightning fast, considering it was 10gb or so worth of games. Everything from Counterstrike to Half-Life 2 and Heroes of Might and Magic) and I've come to the conclusion that this is KINGSTON FLASH MEMORY easily the fastest, and the most silent drive I've ever owned. Honestly if I couldn't see the files transferring to the new drive (on the screen) I wouldn't have believed that it was actually in operation.

This drive would be perfect forKINGSTON FLASH MEMORY a media center computer (though I'm not using it for that purpose). There is only one oddity, which might not be an oddity at all. When I looked at the model number on the drive, it was WD5000AAKS. If you take away the "RTL" from the WD5000KSRTL (RTL meaning retail) you are left with KINGSTON FLASH MEMORY WD5000KS, not WD5000AAKS. Reading a few forums, I think this might be an upgraded version of the KINGSTON FLASH MEMORY WD5000KS, though I cannot independently confirm this. Looking at WD's website, the WD5000AAKS seems to be the current model number for this generations 500gb Caviar KINGSTON FLASH MEMORY SATA.

A few forums mentioned that the WD5000AAKS is a superior driveKINGSTON FLASH MEMORY , and while I can't speak to that, I can honestly say that the performance I've seen from this particular driveKINGSTON FLASH MEMORY has been spectacular. Oh and someone earlier said that this box doesn't come with the SATA cable needed to connect this drive to your computer.

He is infact half correct.

There is no SATA KINGSTON FLASH MEMORY to Molex adaptor included in the box. If you don't know what Molex is, it's the name for the connector that connects computerKINGSTON FLASH MEMORY hardware to the computers power supply. Recently, alot of power supplies have been shipping with SATA KINGSTON FLASH MEMORY power connectors built in (which was the case for me, I got lucky) but if you are using the power supply that came with your computer (from Dell, HP, Gateway etc) you may need to check and make sure you have a SATAKINGSTON FLASH MEMORY power connector on it before you attempt to buy this drive. Unlike alot of drives, this drive cannot be powered by a Molex connector. You may have to buy a Molex to SATA KINGSTON FLASH MEMORY adaptor if this is the case with your power supply.

There is however an included SATAKINGSTON FLASH MEMORY data cable, so you won't have to purchase an additional one to install this hard drive (which a few people did unfortunately).