WD Caviar SATA hard drives are designed for mainstream desktop personal computers. They feature a fast spindle speed, a large cache buffer, and vast storage capacity. WD Caviar... more
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feature a fast spindle speed, a large cache buffer, and vast storage capacity. WD Caviar drives are built to the highest standards of quality and reliability by peo...
feature a fast spindle speed, a large cache buffer, and vast storage capacity. WD Caviar drives are built to the highest standards of quality and reliability by peo...
feature a fast spindle speed, a large cache buffer, and vast storage capacity. WD Caviar drives are built to the highest standards of quality and reliability by peo...
WD Caviar SATA hard drives are designed for mainstream desktop personal computers. They feature a fast spindle speed, a large cache buffer, and vast storage capacity. WD Caviar drives are built to the highest standards of quality and reliability by people who understand the importance of your data.
Expansion / connectivity
Interfaces: 1 x Serial ATA-300 - 7 pin Serial ATA
Compatible Bays: 1 x internal - 3.5" x 1/3H
Environmental parameters
Min Operating Temperature: 0 °C
Max Operating Temperature: 60 °C
Humidity Range Operating: 5 - 95%
Shock Tolerance: 65 g @ 2ms (operating) / 350 g @ 2ms (non-operating)
Vibration Tolerance: 0.75 g @ 20-300 Hz (operating) / 4 g @ 20-500 Hz (non-operating)
Advantages: Fast spindle speed, large buffer, high capacity, fast data speed Disadvantages: May need SATA interface card
...difference was incredible.
Going from a single 40gb drive setup with 2mb cache, i now had two 160gb drives in a Raid setup with 8mb of cache on each!
The drives themselves are fairly silent in operation, no real clunking or high pitched whines. They dont get too hot, aroud 29c average. (but i have got them in coolermaster hard drive coolers).
I have had problems in the past with Seagate and fujitsu drives, but have yet to have any problems with westerndigital.
Although i have yet to do any benchmarks, i would say the upgrade was definately worth it - not only do i now have more space to fill, but its quicker too.
Definately a recomended drive - even if you dont setup a raid configuration....
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Advantages: Fast read/write, 7200rpm spindle speed Disadvantages: Only 2mb data buffer, Only supports upto ATA100
...Having already owned several western digital hard drives before, i knew these would be pretty reliable.
Installation was fairly easy - four screws, one data cable, and one power cable connection.
The bios on the motherboard recognised the drive perfectly.
Once installed and setup, i noticed the difference over my old hard drive straight away.
The boot up speed was a lot quicker and i once again had space for all my bits and pieces(after i had sorted windows out).
(just for reference my old drive was a 20gb 2mb Cache 5400rpm).
For any one not into the techie side of things, the faster the spindle speed and the bigger the cache size, the Faster the drive.
Although 40gb doesnt sound very big compared to the other sizes available, you can still hold a lot of information on a drive of this size....
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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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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
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
Western digital passport 1600 is so so so so reliable and functional.there are many plus points about it, it can carry thousands of songs, your personal data/files/sheets etc, it can also carry thousands of your memorable pictures. infact it can caryy... more
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