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Western Digital's Special Edition hard drives are designed to maximize desktop computer performance for activities requiring high-performance storage such as computer gaming, digital video editing, and file server applications. Offering the largest capacities, the Western Digital's Special Edition family is equipped with an 8 MB buffer - the largest buffer available today in a desktop EIDE hard drive, delivering data to users faster than any hard drive in its class.??The Special Edition hard drive provides a higher percentage of cache hits and significantly faster time to data than industry-standard 2 MB versions. Within the complex operations of hard drives, the buffer is used to hold the results of recent reads from the disk, and also to "pre-fetch" information that is likely to be requested in the near future. The use of an increased buffer improves the performance by reducing the number of physical accesses to the disk and allowing data to stream from the disk uninterrupted by ...
Western Digital Caviar® WD1600JB Special Edition 160 GB ATA-100 Hard Drive (Retail Version)
$75.00 - $160.00
Product Reviews
Rating:
pros: Price, quality, speed
cons: Only a 1 year warranty. Some competitors (Seagate) have a 3 year warranty.
Caviar - only the best for your data
Just to clarify the previous review, this hard drive DOES NOT have a 3 year warranty. It has a 1 yea... See Full Review
Rating:
pros: Fast, economical, fairly quiet seek, durable
cons: Not especially quiet, faint whine, runs warm
Very fast, quirky support if you're not patched (Windows)
GENERAL The WD 160GB Caviar SE is one of the better gigabyte-to-dollar values out there; it's also o... See Full Review
Product Details
| Product MPN | |
| MPN | WD1600JBRTL |
| Key Features | |
| Spindle Speed | 7200 RPM |
| Interface | IDE/EIDE |
| Designation | Desktop Computer |
| Capacity | 160 GB |
| Enclosure | Internal |
| HDD Form Factor | 3.5' x 1/3H (Low Profile) |
| Technical Features | |
| External Data Transfer Rate | 100 MBps |
| Buffer Size | 8 MB |
| Interface (Detailed) | DMA/ATA-100 (Ultra) |
| Average Latency | 4.17 ms |
| Other Features | |
| Platform | PC, Mac |
| Package Qty. | 1 |
| Brand | Western Digital |
| Dimensions | |
| Depth | 5.79 in. |
| Height | 1.02 in. |
| Weight | 1.32 lb. |
| Width | 4.02 in. |
| Warranty | |
| Warranty | 3 Years |
| Miscellaneous | |
| UPC | 718037104508 |
| Product ID | 21035729 |
