Western Digital offers WD Caviar SE Serial ATA (SATA) hard drives with features and capacities that are ideal for next-generation computers and low-end enterprise storage. Users... more
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Features: Data Lifeguard, Shock Guard, SecureConnect, FlexPower, WhisperDrive, Soft Seek
Performance
Drive Transfer Rate: 300 MBps (external) / 93.5 MBps (internal)
Seek Time: 8.9 ms (average) / 21 ms (max)
Track-to-Track Seek Time: 2 ms
Average Latency: 4.2 ms
Spindle Speed: 7200 rpm
Reliability
Non-Recoverable Errors: 1 per 10^14
Start / Stop Cycles: 50,000
Expansion / connectivity
Interfaces: 1 x Serial ATA-300 - 7 pin Serial ATA
Compatible Bays: 1 x internal - 3.5" x 1/3H
Manufacturer's product description
Western Digital offers WD Caviar SE Serial ATA (SATA) hard drives with features and capacities that are ideal for next-generation computers and low-end enterprise storage. Users benefit from a data transfer rate performance roadmap that begins with 150 MB/s and extends to 600 MB/s, as well as improved cabling that enables greater system design flexibility. Designers of enterprise storage systems and servers are increasingly using desktop-class, large-capacity SATA hard drives because of the advantages that the SATA interface provides.
Manufacturer warranty
Service & Support: 3 years warranty
Service & Support Details: Limited warranty - 3 years
Environmental parameters
Min Operating Temperature: 5 °C
Max Operating Temperature: 55 °C
Humidity Range Operating: 5 - 95%
Shock Tolerance: 65 g @ 2ms half-sine pulse (operating) / 250 g @ 2ms half-sine pulse (non-operating)
Vibration Tolerance: 0.75 g @ 20-300 Hz (operating) / 4 g @ 20-500 Hz (non-operating)
Advantages: Great Reliable Drive which runs well. Disadvantages: I have yet to find any real disadvantages with this drive.
...I keep going back to western digital because after buying harddrives from several manufacturers i have found this to be the best, this particualar drive offers great speed and space and great reliability. you always hear of peoples hard drives dying but i have had many westerndigitals and never had a problem with them. i think they are great drives and i would definatley recommend them to anyone after a reliable, reasonably fast and reasonably large drive. I had no problems installing it and find it very compatible with my hardware. While using this drive i haven not come across any problems. No faliure no slow running its been great. Very easy installation. Anyone looking for a well priced good drive, this is for you....
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Advantages: Extreamly large (though in most cases unnessecery) disk space, fast! Disadvantages: Practicality
...Okay wow 250 Gigabytes of hard disk space sounds extreamly useful and probably makes you want to buy it with out considering other factors (for me anyway..) but when you look at it you have to ask your self "How am I going to make use of all this space?" and even if you some how manage to answer that question you will have to apriechate how long it will take you to format, defrag and check for errors (despite the very fast file transfer speeds). Now there are a lot of posible disadvantages to buying such a capacity of HD storage space for the average computer user, But if your part of a buisness (home or otherwise) then this would be an ideal solution to ensure you won't ever run out of space to store important documents, programs and other nessecery examples. So my final advice would be to only purchace this if you are in REAL need...
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Advantages: Fast, Cheap,Reliable Disadvantages: a little hot, a little noisy
...As a computer geek I used many Hard Drives drives until this one and I'm finally satisfied. As a multitasking user i open many programs at the same time: antivirus, internet, multiple downloads, winamp and even gaming at the same time and often I even game sometimes and this hdd really does a good job. The 320GB (290 Gb actually) are sufficient for storage and comes at a very decent price.
The wd hard drives are really reliable, not a single problem until now in 2 months of usage.
The transfer rates are insane: 80 Mb max at data read and 75 Mb max at data write, about 13 ms access time.
The temperatures are pretty hot in summer, I recommend cooler.
It is a little noisy but are far more noisier hard drives on the market
Stability: 4 full days of massive downloads, in summer is enough for you?!
Overall: great hdd drive...
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I have to say, this is the purchase of the year!
I got it about 3 months ago for about £50, and it has replaced my old 80gb hard drive I used to have.
The drive itself is very easy to install. Your standard IDE cable (the thin long one) goes in to... more
What is there to really say about hard disc drives? Well that depends on your audience I suspect.
Oh yes, yes it does.
If I were talking to a bunch of tech-heads (bless our geeky hearts), I would say this;
This is a standard SATAII device that... more
I've actually just reviewed the 200gb version of this disc drive.
I currently have 2 western digital hard drives in my PC, one of them is this one and the other is a 200gb version of this.
The reason I have two of these is simple - its because they more
I am currently in the middle of an 'upgrade everything on my PC' phase, and the latest thing to get the treatment was the hard drive. I decided that I would get another hard drive and add it as a companion to the existing one to save messing around with... more
The perfect gift for your Windows vista, oh how this will breathe new life into your commputer. This drive scores 5.9 in the windows vista experience rating, the highest posible score!!!
The latency and size of this hard drive is competitive in terms more
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