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Cool, quiet and fast. WD Caviar SE drives offer superior performance and reliability, making them ideal for business and family desktops.
Key Features Fast - 8 MB cache - Keeps more of your data in high-speed memory for unsurpassed performance in its class. Fast 7200 RPM spindle speed and EIDE (Ultra ATA/100) for burst transfer rates up to 100 MB/s. For even higher performance, consider WD Caviar SE16 SATA 300 MB/s hard drives.
Cool - Cool operation results in the highest reliability, even in intensely hot environments such as digital video recorders. That's why these, the coolest on the market, are the drives of choice for the world's leading consumer electronics and PC manufacturers.
Quiet - The technology that Tom's Hardware Guide called very fast and nearly silent is used throughout this family of drives. Our WhisperDrive technology minimizes noise to levels near the threshold of human hearing. To cut seek noise, SoftSeek technology streamlines read/write seeking algorithms, resulting in more efficient operation.
Specification
| Physical Specifications |
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| Formatted Capacity |
160,041 MB |
| Capacity |
160GB |
| Interface |
EIDE 100 MB/s |
| User Sectors Per Drive |
312,581,808 |
| General |
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| Rotational Speed |
7,200 RPM (nominal) |
| Buffer Size |
8 MB |
| Average Latency |
4.20 ms (nominal) |
| Contact Start/Stop Cycles |
50,000 minimum |
| Performance Specifications |
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| 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 |
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| Buffer To Disk |
748 Mbits/s (Max) |
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