WD 500gb for boot drive?

[Berethorn]

I'm building a new system, and I already have the Western Digital WD5000AAKS (500gb SATA) hard drive bought. I also have a couple of full IDE hard drives from the old computer.

I want to install Windows fresh, of course, but I'm wondering; is the 500gb HD reliable enough to put my Windows installation on and to use for most of my files? Because I've seen some reviews on Newegg suggesting there's a certain percentage that give out. And are there any other reasons I shouldn't use a 500gb as a main drive?

I can add the IDE drives later for additional storage, using an IDE controller card, but I'd love to have my main drives on SATA.

[sgtspector]

Any drive can go bad without warning. That drive should be fine. Just make sure when you are done installing windows and all your software to do a full backup of your hardrive. Then you can just do incremental backups for the data that has changed. Good luck with your build.

[TwoRails]

As mentioned, any drive can fail, even one made by the best manufacturer. The fact that you're already concerned about the WD would indicate you'll not be too happy running it: you'll be worried. I know I would.

Here's a recent, and short thread on it:

http://forum.pcmech.com/showthread.php?t=191380

[Berethorn]

Thanks guys; I picked up a Seagate 500gb 32mb cache HDD to be on the safe side.