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WD800JDRTL2 - Internal hard drive - 3.5" x 1/3H - 7200 rpm - 150 MBps - Serial ATA-150 more

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Carrying on the heritage of WD Caviar SE hard drives as industry-leading performers, Western Digital offers WD Caviar SE Serial ATA (SATA) hard drives, to fill acute demand in...
more...market segments such as high-end PC, workstation, and entry-level servers. Designers of enterprise storage systems and servers are increasingly using desktop-class, large-capacity SATA hard drives because of the advantages provided by the SATA interface.





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A review by Xemnasaix on WD Caviar Blue WD800JD 80 GB
April 4th, 2007


Author's product rating:   Western Digital Caviar SE WD800JD 80 GB - rated by Xemnasaix

Memory / capacity Satisfactory 
Reliability Excellent 
Ease of Installation Excellent - very quick and easy 
Speed Fast 
Value For Money Excellent 

Advantages: Easy to Install
Disadvantages: Small

Recommend to potential buyers: yes 

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This Western Digital WD800JD Internal Hard drive was one of my best computing buys.

I bought it boxed and unopened from eBay for £20, and other listings of the same item were of a similar price, £20 for 80 GB, which works out £1 for 4GB, which is pretty cheap.

It came in perfect condition, with easy instructions to follow if you didn't already know what you are doing, when going to install it, it was a simple case of screwing it to the Bay and plugging in the Power and SATA cables and then booting the PC. It required no BIOS editing and no formatting.

I installed Vista Ultimate on it fine, and within an hour of getting it, I was downloading the Ultmate Updates, I have yet to have any problems with it, it is quiet,fast (150 MBps) and has good cache(8 MB).

The Drive is a nice small size (dimension wise) 10.1 x 14.7 x 2.5 cm and only weighs 0.6 KG. It has a SATA-150 (Serial ATA) Interface type, not the old and harder to use IDE interface, which makes it even easier to install because it doesn't require editing the Drive Jumper.

The only problem is that nowadays an 80GB HDD cannot store that much, but this isn't a criticism, I could have just bought a larger one of the same series if I had the money to spare.  

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Design Excellent 
Ease of use Very easy 
Instruction manual Very useful 
Manufacturer Support Satisfactory 

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