Western Digital WD5000AAKB Caviar SE 500GB Hard Drive

Offering capacities as large as 500GB, the Western Digital high-performance family of EIDE Hard Drive Kits is equipped with an 16 MB buffer.  

Superior Performance

The Special Edition hard drive provides a higher percentage of cache hits and significantly faster time to data 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.

 

This Drive Holds

- 212 two-hour DVD-quality movies or

- 750 hours of VHS-quality video or

- 440 days of around-the-clock MP3 audio or

- 186,500 vivid digital photos or

- 1066 action-packed games!

 

Features & Specifications

·        Capacity (GB):   500

·        Interface:   Ultra ATA-100

·        Spindle Speed (RPM):   7200

·        Buffer Memory:   16MB

·        Average Latency (msec):   4.2

·        Access Time:   8.9 ms

·        Track-to-Track Seek Time (typical read, ms):   2.0

·        Full Stroke Seek Time (normal seek):   21.0

·        Maximum External Transfer Rate (Mbits/sec):   100

·        Discs/Heads:   3/6

·        Bytes Per Sector:   512

·        Temperature, Operating (°C):   5 to 55

·        Temperature, Nonoperating (°C):   -40 to 65

·        Shock, Operating: 2 msec (Gs):   65

·        Shock, Nonoperating: 2 msec (Gs):   250

·        Acoustics Idle (bels—sound power):   28 dBA (average)

·        Acoustics Seek (bels—sound power):   33 dBA (average)

·        Acoustics Performance Seek (bels—sound power):   29 dBA (average)

 

Package Includes

·        One Western Digital WD5000AAKB Caviar SE 500GB Hard Drive

 

Additional Information

·        Bulk Item

·        Requirements:

·        IDE Controller (UDMA/100 Controller recommended)

·        Available 3.5-inch Drive Bay

·        Available Power Connector

·        IDE Cable - NOT Included (UDMA/66-100 Cable Recommended)