WD's SATA drive specs and info

[eviltechie]

http://www.westerndigital.com/products/WD360GD.asp

Physical Specifications
Capacity 36.7 GB
Areal Density 36.7 GB
Model Number WD360GD
Formatted Capacity 1 37,019 MB
User Sectors Per Drive 72,303,840
(44F44E0h)
Interface Max 1.5 Gb PHY
serial Interface
Bytes Per Sector 512
Dedicated Landing Zone Yes
Actuator Latch/Auto Park Yes

Performance Specifications
Data Transfer Rate
- Buffer to Host
- Buffer to Disk
150 MB/s max 2
102 MB/s max
Average Read Seek 5.2 ms (average)
Track-to-track Seek 3 0.7 ms (average)
Full Stroke Read Seek 3 10.2 ms (average)
Average Latency 2.99 ms
Rotational Speed 10,000 RPM
Read Cache Adaptive
Write Cache Yes
Buffer 8 MB
Drive Ready Time 7.0 sec average
Start/Stop Cycles 20,000 min
Error Rate
(non-recoverable) < 1 in 1015 bits read

Physical Dimensions
Height 1.028 in. (25.4 mm) max
Length 5.787 in. (147.0 mm) max
Width 4.0 in. (101.6 mm) ± .01 in.
Weight 1.60 lb. (0.73 kg) ± 10%

Power Requirements 4
Mode 12 V (± 10%) 5 V (± 5%) Power
Read / Write 430 mA 925 mA 9.75 W
Idle 350 mA 5 850 mA 9.25 W
Standby 25.5 mA 350 mA 2.1 W
Sleep 25.75 mA 200 mA 1.3 W
3.3 V Serial ATA power not used in this product.

Looks good, just my luck that the Maxtor I purchased in Nov 2002 went up in flames Saturday.
The only place I could find that had Hard Drives with a good quality for sale was Fry's.
They had a 80gb WD SE for $89.00 after rebate.
When I arrived there they were all gone. The only one they had was the 40gb for $49.99 after rebate and the 120gb for $120.00 after rebate.
The only SE they had was the 120 so that is the one I purchased.
That was the easiest HD to set up I have ever ran across.
Everything went smooth as silk.
NOW if I could only retreve all the data from the old drive.
Last Maxter I will ever own.

[accurateimage]

I cannot wait to get my hands on two od the 40gb sata drives in raid 0 hehehe.

[BobyJo]

AI::I wish I had did a backup of the files (downloaded etc) I had on the large partition of the Maxtor that went up in flames this past Saturday. Man that hurt, I have backup of everything prior to the nForce2 realm.
I had began a collection of stuff to use, but now it is all gone.
Maxtor refused to recover anything for me.
All thay stated they would do is replace the drive #$%R%.
I replaced with a 120gb WD SE and I will have to say that was the easiest HD I ever installed.
This is the fastest HD I have ever had bar none.
I looked for the SATA hard drives. There was none here in any stores. The one I found on the web was something over $280.00 for a 80gb Seagate V.
I am not going for that.

[accurateimage]

I am waiting for the western digital versions at 10,000 rpm :) I want two in the 40 range for a raid 0 setup and use my 160gb for backup ! Sorry about that maxtor.. I lost everything I had to including photo's and all with a maxtor / quantum drive, pics of baby ect before I was smart enough to backup everything on a reg basis... makes me soooooo bitter at that company for their comlete lack of careing when a drive of theres just fails out of the blue for no reason, heck this one was only a day :mad: startd useing the wd se drives and will use nothing else... hope the sata drives are this good :)

[BobyJo]

As far as I am concerned, the prices are gonna have to change a lot before I would indulge in one of these new drives. I see the Seagate is selling off of price watch for $282.00 for a 80gb drive.

[accurateimage]

They will come way down man :) at least 30% less than a scsi.