Western Digital® Caviar® 160GB Ultra ATA-100 7200RPM 8MB Buffer Hard Drive WD1600JB

WD Caviar EIDE hard drives are designed for mainstream desktop personal computers. They feature a fast 7200 RPM spindle speed, a 8 MB cache buffer, and up to 250 GB of storage. WD Caviar drives are built to the highest standards of quality and reliability by people who understand the importance of your data.

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 3 Gb/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.
• Data Lifeguard
  Data Lifeguard includes embedded features that guard your data and software tools that make installation, configuration and diagnostics simple and worry-free. Speed, performance and reliability are the key features of the WD Caviar 7200 RPM series.

This Drive Holds

• Up to 45,000 digital photos
• Up to 40,000 songs (MP3)
• Up to 4,000 songs (uncompressed CD quality)
• Up to 12 hours of Digital Video (DV)
• Up to 71 hours of DVD quality video
• Up to 19 hours of HD video

Important interface information

This drive requires an EIDE interface

Notes: Order IDE cable separately. Sharing IDE cable between hard disk and CD Rom may slow down your data transferring.