Product Details ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Western Digital Caviar Enhanced IDE Hard Drives 80 GB per platter – State-of-the-art areal density and maximum capacity with drives as large as 250 GB. 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. 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. WD Caviar® 7200 RPM EIDE hard drives are offered in capacities up to 250 GB, with performance geared to advanced and mainstream desktop personal computers. WD Caviar drives are built to the highest standards of quality and reliability because we understand the importance of the data that is entrusted to our products. -Specifications Rotational Speed 7,200 RPM (nominal) Buffer Size 2 MB Average Latency 4.20 ms (nominal) Contact Start/Stop Cycles 50,000 minimum 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) 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 |