Western Digital 160 GB Caviar Blue SATA 7200 RPM 8 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Desktop Hard Drive WD1600AAJS
October 13th, 2011
Whether it is with many available in a variety of functions, providing rock-solid performance, quiet operation and low moderate cache size of SATA or EIDE interfaces WD Caviar Blue hard drive. Selection for your needs, knowing all WD Caviar Blue drives the highest standards of quality and reliability is a confidence-building drive. The drive’s capacity from 40 GB to 640 GB range, for the perfect home and business computing solutions.
- Ships in Certified Frustration-Free Packaging
- WD Caviar Blue hard drives are available with either SATA or EIDE interface in a variety of cache sizes with a multitude of available features
- Whisper Drive technology minimizes noise to levels near the threshold of human hearing
- IntelliSeek – Calculates optimum seek speeds to lower power consumption, noise, and vibration
List Price: $ 53.99
Price: $ 33.25
high failure rate,
While I didn’t purchase these drives from Amazon, I thought I would pass along my experience in the event it helps others make an informed decision. Our company recently performed a tech refresh on a little under 1000 computers. About half of the new computers have this Western Digital hard drive, the other half have a Seagate Barracuda 160 GB SATA drive. Within a month of the new computers being deployed, we are getting an average of 3 failed hard drives a week – all are the Western Digital 160 GB model # WD1600AAJS. The numbers seem too great to be the expected “infant mortality rate” for new hardware one might expect from +/- 500 new computers. All failures are being quickly replaced by the manufacturer since they are under warranty, but the amount of dead hard drives showing up on a regular basis has made me very wary of this model. BTW, no failed Seagate drives have been reported thus far.
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|Cool, Quiet and Reliable!,
The biggest killer of hard drives is heat. If there is no air flow around the drive, the drive risks certain failure. That said, I have 2 of these running 24/7 in a home-theater PC in a raid-0 array. They are fast and quiet. They have been running continuously for over a year, and no hiccups. 160GB is small by today’s standards, but the beauty of this design is that the drive is spinning just one single platter. If you were to go to the 320 GB or larger drive, then you will have multiple platters spinning inside the enclosure, resulting in higher heat and noise.
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|Replaced 3 in a year. .,
I had 3 die in the span of one calendar year. As a teacher, all I do is internet, word processing, Powerpoints and download a little music here & there. Yes, the hard drives were replaced by WD under warranty, but I spent $500 in PC repairs & data recovery in 2007. WD sends you a reconditioned hard drive and not a new one. I will never buy WD again and their QC department should be ashamed of themselves. I recommend Seagate.
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