Patrick Schmid van Toms Hardware Guide heeft een korte review van de Western Digital 450AA een 5400 RPM harddisk geschreven. Uit de review blijkt dat, zoals eerder al werd gemeld, Western Digital zich meer op de budgetmarkt gaat richten. De 450AA presteert niet geweldig, maar is met de lage prijs (200 dollar) interessant voor de low-budget markt:
Looking at pricewatch.com, you can find this WD drive for less than $200. That's a really good price for a good hard drive. Western Digital is not offering absolute high end capacity drives for some time now. Here, Maxtor and IBM are outplaying each other (80 and 75 GBytes). WD rather tries to offer products with the best price/performance ratio. If you just need a rather large hard drive without having special demands, you will get a timely model which is easy to handle.
With a net price of approximately 0.4 cents per megabyte, the 450AA is able to position itself at the very price/performance top. In comparison to other 5,400-drives, its performance is also at a very good level. Additionally, you won't get heat or vibration problems.
