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Digital offers WD Caviar SE Serial ATA (SATA) hard drives which feature capacities as large as
1.5 Gb/s 250 GB and an 8 MB buffer, to fill acute demand in market segments such as high-end PC,
(Serial ATA 1.0) workstation, and entry-level servers. Designers of enterprise storage systems and servers are
increasingly using desktop-class, large-capacity SATA hard drives because of the advantages
provided by the SATA interface. Benefits include a data transfer rate of 150 MB/s and
improved cabling that enables greater system design flexibility.
3.5-inch/1-inch
Product Benefits
! 8 MB cache – fast data transfer from a cache four times larger than the
industry-standard 2 MB size.
7200 RPM
! 7200 RPM – high-performance rotational speed for high-capacity hard drives.
! Data Lifeguard Tools™– software utility that works in conjunction with the embedded
Data Lifeguard™ features (including shock protection, an environmental protection
system, and embedded error detection and repair features) to make hard drive installation,
40 to 250 GB management, and diagnostics simple and worry-free.
! SecureConnect™– provides a 500 percent stronger cable-to-drive connection than
first-generation SATA hard drives and cables; ensures backward compatibility with legacy
SATA cables and backplanes.
Note: Western Digital's Serial ATA cable with SecureConnect is recommended for use with
all Western Digital Serial ATA hard drives.
WD400JD
WD800JD ! FlexPower™– connector technology that accepts power from both industry-standard and
WD1200JD new SATA power supplies.
WD1600JD
! Point-to-point bus configuration – utilizes the full bandwidth of each drive interface in a
WD2000JD
networked environment.
WD2500JD
! Hot plug support – allows swapping of hard drives without having to power down the
Note: All products may system or reboot; promotes system design flexibility, data availability, and serviceability.
not be available in all
regions of the world. ! Backplane compatibility – promotes expandability and flexibility in system architecture.
Performance Specifications
Data Transfer Rate
-Buffer to host3 150 MB/s
-Buffer to disk 748 Mbits/s max
Read seek 8.9 ms (average)
Track-to-track seek4 2.0 ms (average)
Full stroke read seek4 21 ms (average)
Average latency 4.2 ms
Rotational speed 7200 RPM
Read cache Adaptive
Write cache Yes
Buffer 8 MB
Drive ready time 9.0 sec average
Start/stop cycles 50,000 min
LBA support Yes
Error rate
(non-recoverable) <1 in 10 14 bits read
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support.wdc.com
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Western Digital
1 Western Digital defines a megabyte (MB) as 1,000,000 bytes and a gigabyte (GB) as 1,000,000,000 bytes. Some operating systems use 20511 Lake Forest Drive
the binary numbering system which results in a lower reported capacity. Lake Forest, California 92630 U.S.A.
2 Three-year standard warranty on bulk WD Caviar SE Serial ATA hard drives. This standard warranty may be subject to variations
imposed by local law or regulations.
3 Effective maximum transfer rate running Serial ATA 1.0. 2879-001081-003 02/04
4 On reads and writes.