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40 GB Western Digital Caviar 7,200 RPM  Hard Drive  - $54.99
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Western Digital Caviar EIDE Hard Drives

  • State-of-the-art areal density
  • Ultra ATA/100 – Up to 100 MB/s burst transfer rates
  • 2 MB cache buffer
  • Fluid Dynamic Bearing (FDB) technology – improves hard drive reliability; reduces heat, vibration, and noise
WD Caviar 7200 RPM EIDE hard drives in capacities up to 120 GB at huge savings!  Performance geared to advanced and mainstream desktop personal computers, WD Caviar drives are built to the highest standards of quality and reliability.

Western Digital Caviar Data Protection Enhancements

  • Data Lifeguard is a set of data protection features that include shock protection, an environmental protection system, and embedded error detection and repair features that automatically find, isolate, and repair problem areas that may develop over the extended use of the hard drive.
  • Data Lifeguard Tools is a set of software utilities that work in conjunction with the embedded Data Lifeguard features to make hard drive installation, drive management diagnostics, and repair simple and worry-free.
  • Shock Guard provides outstanding improvements in shock and vibration protection for WD Caviar drives. Shock Guard allows instantaneous data protection at high shock values to achieve leading shock specifications.
Western Digital Caviar Hard Drive General Specifications
Rotational Speed 7,200 RPM (nominal)
Buffer Size 2 MB
Average Latency 4.20 ms (nominal)
Contact Start/Stop Cycles 50,000 minimum
Warranty  1 year manufacturers warranty
Seek Times (Average)
Read Seek Time (Average) 8.9 ms
Write Seek Time (Average) 10.9 ms (average)
Track-To-Track Seek Time 2.0 ms (average)
Full Stroke Seek 21.0 ms (average)
Transfer Rates
Buffer To Disk 748 Mbits/s (Max)
Buffer to Host (EIDE)
Mode 5 Ultra ATA 100.0 MB/s
Mode 4 Ultra ATA 66.6 MB/s
Mode 2 Ultra ATA 33.3 MB/s
Mode 4 PIO 16.6 MB/s
Mode 2 multi-word DMA 16.6 MB/s

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