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WD Caviar SE 120GB Hard Drive

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WD Caviar SE 120GB Hard Drive

WD Caviar 120 GB Special Edition, the latest addition to Western Digital's reliable, award-winning hard drive family, is designed to maximize desktop computer performance for activities requiring high-performance hard drives such as computer gaming, digital video editing, and file server applications. The WD Caviar 120 GB Special Edition is equipped with an 8 MB buffer - the largest buffer available today in a 7200 RPM 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 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 mechanical operations.

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Product Specifications for

WD Caviar SE 120GB Hard Drive

More Info
URL	http://www.wdc.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=27

Performance
Rotational Speed	7200 RPM
Host Transfer Rate	100 MBytes/sec
Access Time	8.9 ms
Cache Size	8 MB

Warranty
Warranty Information	3 Year Limited Warranty

Dimensions
Depth	5.8 in
Weight	1.3 lbs
Width	4 in
Height	1 in

General
normalized-Rotational Speed	7200
normalized-Capacity	120000
Included Components	Cabling (Interface)\|Installation Software
Class	Hard Drive
Internal/External	Internal
normalized-Access Time	8.9
normalized-Cache Size	8
Form Factor Width	3.5 in
Category	> 5.0gb IDE/EIDE

Interface
Interface Connection	IDE - ATA/EIDE/ATAPI 40 pin Header
Interface Type	IDE (Ultra ATA/100)

Storage
Capacity	120 GB

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Most recent User Reviews for

WD Caviar SE 120GB Hard Drive

Reviewed by: Bluebumblebee

09-04-07

Duration of ownership: 1 Days

Strengths: Looks

Weaknesses:Reliability

Overall Evaluation: Died within the first 12 hours of use. This was a drive I bought just in case I'd need it and so by the time I got to using it, it was out of warranty, and WD did not even return my e-mail. All I was asking was for them to look at it and verify that it was as I said.
Reviewed by: rehrich

12-12-05

Duration of ownership:

Strengths: Fast, reliable... lasts.

Weaknesses:None.

Overall Evaluation: I have two computers... do a lot of video editing. Needless to say I've yet to have one fail on me and I let em chug away all night long and all day (rendering time takes 6-8 hours of continuous use). I have two in one machine, and one in the other. I like them so much I plan on getting another from newegg to back up the drive in my one machine with the single drive and for additional storage for video capture footage. I'm not sure what's going on with some of the drives you all have... but mine get used a lot... gaming, video editing, etc... no problems at all. I love these drives. If I'm lucky, I've been lucky a long time... drive 1 = 4 years, drive 2 = 3 years, drive 3 = 2 years. I say, intall two of whatever you choose, and ghost em on a regular basis... the warranty will cover the one that dies and down time is less than 5 minutes!
Reviewed by: rwillifo

05-16-05

Duration of ownership: 3 Weeks

Strengths: Fast, reliable, and priced right

Weaknesses:none known

Overall Evaluation: I have purchased many Western Digital hard-drives in the past ten years starting with my first 250MB. They have all worked fabulously and they're all still working in either my computers or computers I gave away.
Reviewed by: somewhereinCA

05-05-05

Duration of ownership: 6 Months

Strengths: Has great storage capacity

Weaknesses:Noisiest drive I have ever had. This is the second Caviar drive I have owned, and by far the worst. Also confusing and conflicting documentation out of the box regarding jumper settings etc.

Overall Evaluation: This was the second of 2 Caviar drives. I have not been impressed with either. They are noisy and cantancerous, and frequently lock up. Western Digital has yet to pay the rebates on both drives, so don't use the rebate as a reason to purchase this drive.
Reviewed by: mchan103

11-16-04

Duration of ownership: 4 Months

Strengths: It's fast.

Weaknesses:Totally unreliable. Failed after 4 months.

Overall Evaluation: This is my second drive. The first one failed after 1 year. The second after 4 months. Getting RMA from the website was simply. I only use the advance placement option. I've never had good experiences with repair option from any company due to the long wait of repair/replacement. I recommend to stay away from this drive. The cost of lost data and time is not worth it. I owned and have own many WD drives but this is ridiculous.