Ultra ATA/100, 7,200 RPM, 8MB - MPN: WD800JB See Product Details
Description
WD Caviar 80GB Special Edition 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 80GB Special Edition is equipped with an 8MB 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 2MB 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.
Quick Glance
Internal/External: Internal
Interface: IDE (Ultra ATA/100)
Drive Width: 3.5 in
Capacity: 80000
Rotational Speed: 7200
Cache Size: 8
Summary
Product Title: WD Caviar SE 80GB Hard Drive - OEM
Manufacturer: WD
Lowest Price: $21.00
Power Score: 4.4 | 30 Reviews
Storage
Capacity: 80 GB
Interface
Interface Type: IDE (Ultra ATA/100)
Interface Connection: IDE - ATA/EIDE/ATAPI 40 pin Header
Performance
Rotational Speed: 7200 RPM
Cache Size: 8 MB
General
Category: > 5.0gb IDE/EIDE
Class: Hard Drive
Internal/External: Internal
Form Factor Width: 3.5 in
Dimensions
Weight: 1.32 lbs
Warranty
Warranty Information: 3 Year Limited Warranty
More Info
URL: Manufacturer Link
Strengths: hard to hear when writes on disk
Weakness: high pitched spindle noise all the time, died in 2 years
The drive was OEM and has just died after two years of normal usage (no video editing or game playing). The motherboard recognizes it but nothing can read or write on it, including FDISK - total disk boot failure. Before that Partition Magic was refusing to partition it since it found too many errors on the drive. The drive had this high pitched spindle noise that was louder than my cooling fans...
Strengths: 8MB cache for small files that are used repeatedly & reliability
Weakness: seek time & raw throughput for large files of 3-4MB and larger
I have built &/or supported hundreds of systems with drives from WD, Maxtor, IBM & Seagate and upgraded 1000+ with Fujitsu. They had the low bid. I have experienced good reliability with all of them, although Fujitsu's failure rate was about 2 or 3 times the norm of about 0.5%. As for speed, in this class, IBM & WD are at the top, but IBM matches WD with only 2MB cache. That means that it's a...
Strengths: I have never owned a computer before, but Western Digital's Data Lifeguard made this process nearly painless, and the drive has given me no problems.
Weakness: None as of yet.
I bought a rebuilt Presario about four months ago, which had only a 1 GB hard drive. I have never owned a computer before but quickly learned just how limiting such a small drive can be. I bought this drive, spent several days at Western Digital's comprehensive support pages learning all I could, and with the help of Data Lifeguard Tools (which I downloaded from the site), installed the bare...
Strengths: NONE
Weakness: Cheaply made. Make a high pitch whine. The one I received makes a annoying rattling sound.
I am very skeptical this hard drive has received such glowing reveiws. This is my second review. They didnt bother to post my original. At other review sites there are tons of complaints. This drive is noisey. My unit not only makes a loud whine but now it has started a annoying rattle.(Yes, its been installed corectly!!) I bought this drive at Officemax for 19.99 after rebates. Even if I got it...
Strengths: Fast, quiet, 8Mb Buffer.
Weakness: None so far.
This is one of the most quiet EIDE hard drives I ever see. It has 8Mb buffer which makes this hard drive to run faster than the others.
Strengths: This is one of the best drives I've ever used, I worked for Samsung, not even close, Hitachi and the ohters, LOL don't waste your time!!
Weakness: Drive runs excessively hot, threw HDD cooler on it, helps. Yet not 100% sure what may occur.
This drive is great in XP but even better on 2000Pro, simply the XP shell will bog down anything. I use this drive to back up another earlier WD 80GB drive. I run Diskkeeper 8, both workstation and server on the drive and this drive takes 10 minutes to defrag compared to the other drive with a 2MB buffer same size, both at near full capacity. I've worked in the the IT field for 10 years, and...
Strengths: FAST
Weakness: NONE
Put two of these together in raid 0, &, you might stop pricing those SATA drives you've been drooling over. I have been using an ATI all in wonder video card as a PVR. The sorage capacity of these drives + speed takes off 33% of the time I spend encoding video over 2 WD400BB drives in the same arrangement.
Strengths: Fast. Quiet. Warranty. Installation.
Weakness: None as of yet.
Got this hard drive as a replacement after my stock one went bellyup. Installation was an absolute breeze. The drive is fast!!!!!!! Runs very quietly and has not had any negative impact on CPU temps. Only glitch I ran into was to make sure that when installing that people look at the jumper settings on the drive itself---because the ones in the installation manual were way off. But this is...
Strengths: The 8 MB buffer makes this the Best Buy in EIDE HDD. This drive was chosen No. 1 by PC World, Sept 02, p. 102 and it deserves that ranking.
Weakness: None I can find.
This drive will set the standard for EIDE HDD for the near future. The 8 MB buffer is a clear improvement over others in this class with only 2 MB. The street price was stated as $160 on 6/20/02. Today 8/15/02 the street price is just UNDER $100 from a distributor. This combination makes this THE EIDE to buy.
It crapped on me again!
Strengths: Ugh!
Weakness: Hope you got back up copies of everything!
I first bought this drive in 2003. Not even a year later and it went bad on me and I lost a lot of stuff. It was under warranty, so I sent it back to Western Digital for a new one. Here I am two years later and guess what happened today? Yep, it died on me again. Thankfully I had most of the stuff backed up, but still lost some video files I was working on that were too big to back up. It's still...
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