Western Digital Caviar SE EIDE 120 GB Hard Drive
Manufacturer: Western Digital Corp. Part number: WD1200JB
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- This high-volume drive offers outstanding sustained throughput and Western Digital's reputation for excellence and reliability.
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CNET editors' review
Western Digital Caviar SE EIDE 120 GB Hard Drive price range: $31.99 - $82.00
- Reviewed by: Jon L. Jacobi
- Reviewed on: 05/05/2002
The good: Huge, 120GB capacity; blazing performance; three-year warranty.
The bad: None.
The bottom line: This high-volume drive offers outstanding sustained throughput and Western Digital's reputation for excellence and reliability.
User reviews
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Worked for 1 year then quit
Pros: Great drive, good value, fast, sleak, etc. When it died on me after 1 year they replaced it promptly under warranty.
Cons: So yeah, this drive died on me.. I lost a good 80gb worth of data I would have rather held on to, and no i didn't have a lot of important stuff backed up. But WD eased my frustration by sending me a new one quickly.
4 out of 4 users found this user opinion helpful.
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Failed!
Pros: Fast when works
Cons: Failed after about 8 months....installed it as a second hard drive for my picture & video files....now I can't retrieve them! Very upset! Will not buy another WD drive.
3 out of 3 users found this user opinion helpful.
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WD is the way to go!
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Summary: I have used Western Digital 40GB, 60GB, 80GB and 120GB drives in computers. I presently have a 120GB with a 80GB back up. The drives work well together. Hundreds of ...
Summary: I have used Western Digital 40GB, 60GB, 80GB and 120GB drives in computers. I presently have a 120GB with a 80GB back up. The drives work well together. Hundreds of giga bytes of data has been passed between these drives as I have processed DVD videos of our family. All of my WD drives have performed well. The only reason I replaced them is my need for--More Storage!
2 out of 2 users found this user opinion helpful.
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Started clicking, lost everything.
by noodle2 on June 16, 2005
Pros: Lasted 2.5 years of very occassional use.
Cons: About three times over the life of this drive, file system erroirs were reported on bootup. Sure wIsh i had took these warnings more seriously.
Summary: Ironically I bought this disk to backup some important data which is now all lost. Even more ironically, i still have a seven or eight year old 1.2GB drive ...
Summary: Ironically I bought this disk to backup some important data which is now all lost. Even more ironically, i still have a seven or eight year old 1.2GB drive thats used for swap in this machine and still going strong. My main system drive is a 10GB WD somewhere inbetween age wise and still fine knock on wood. Cant understand why this 120GB drive, which was only used for archive, would be the first to go. It was made in Malaysia on 25 AUG 2002.
1 out of 1 users found this user opinion helpful.
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Died hard in 9 days...lost all my data
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Summary: Drive smart failed after 9 days of use (click, whirr...clunk - repeat). I lost all my data. I've got a new replacement, but I'm leery now. Logic ...
Summary: Drive smart failed after 9 days of use (click, whirr...clunk - repeat). I lost all my data. I've got a new replacement, but I'm leery now. Logic tells me that it must be an isolated failure, but that doesn't seem to help.
1 out of 1 users found this user opinion helpful.
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This is my BackUp Drive & it Die after 3 weeks w/ all my work.
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Summary: I was initially excited about this hard drive as it had decent reviews here @ Cnet. I also had heard a lot about this line of hard drives being very unreliable ...
Summary: I was initially excited about this hard drive as it had decent reviews here @ Cnet. I also had heard a lot about this line of hard drives being very unreliable and prone to failure, but thought that i would purchase it anyway and see for myself. The first two weeks it worked fine, now I'm on 3rd week and for some reason it started to make noise and crash. I lost two weeks of work. The second HD I have is a WD also and it is starting to make some noise.
1 out of 1 users found this user opinion helpful.
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Best drive I have ever owned.
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Summary: Much quieter and faster than any other hard drives I have owned. I leave my computer on almost constantly and have never had any problems with this drive so far. ...
Summary: Much quieter and faster than any other hard drives I have owned. I leave my computer on almost constantly and have never had any problems with this drive so far. The drive seems to be able to do more at once than my other drive with a 2MB buffer. The 8MB does make a definite performance increase especially when dealing with very large files.
1 out of 1 users found this user opinion helpful.
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Fastest IDE drive i ever had.
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Summary: This drive out runs one of my other computers with a SCSI hardrive. Extremely fast and a nice amount of space.
Summary: This drive out runs one of my other computers with a SCSI hardrive. Extremely fast and a nice amount of space.
1 out of 1 users found this user opinion helpful.
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Lack of Support, Drives fail
by neever on December 7, 2005
Pros: I can't think of any
Cons: Lack of Support, Drives fail
Summary: Western Digital will not support your hard drive WHEN it fails. On November 16, 2004, I bought a 250GB hard drive. Three months later in February, 2005, I had to ...
Summary: Western Digital will not support your hard drive WHEN it fails. On November 16, 2004, I bought a 250GB hard drive. Three months later in February, 2005, I had to return it for a replacement due to a hard failure. Now, this replacement drive too has failed as well after only eight months.
I went through two Western Digital drives in a year due to no fault of my own and the hard drive failed just six days after the warranty expiration. I requested a replacement from Western Digital and they completely ignored me.
Buy at your own risk.
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Cons:
Lack of Support, Drives fail -
Best Quality and Value buy for any OS
Pros: Some readers with negative coments about a HDD not being ideal for a particular OS are absolute nonsense - A HDD is a HDD !!! It makes no difference what OS is loaded or how one partitions the drive - PLEASE DON'T COMMENT IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DO
Cons: None
Specifications
- Manufacturer: Western Digital Corp.
- Part number: WD1200JB
- Description: 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.
General
- Device Type Hard drive - Internal hard drive
- Width 4 in
- Depth 5.8 in
- Height 1 in
- Weight 1.3 lbs
Hard Drive
- Form Factor 3.5" x 1/3H
- Capacity 120 GB
- Interface Type ATA-100
- Buffer Size 8 MB
- Features Data Lifeguard
- Compliant Standards S.M.A.R.T.
Performance
- Drive Transfer Rate 100 MBps
- Internal Data Rate 75.3 MBps
- Seek Time 8.9 ms (average) / 21 ms (max)
- Track-to-Track Seek Time 2 ms
- Average Latency 4.2 ms
- Spindle Speed 7200 rpm
Configuration
- Sectors per Track 63
- Bytes per Sector 512
Reliability
- Storage Hard Drive / Non-Recoverable Errors 1 per 10^14
- Start / Stop Cycles 50,000
Storage Controller
- Type None
Storage Controller (2nd)
- Type None
Expansion / Connectivity
- Interfaces None
- Connections 1 x Storage - ATA-100 - 40 pin IDC
- Compatible Bays 1 x Internal - 3.5" x 1/3H
- Compatible Slots x None
Power
- Power device type None
Miscellaneous
- Package Type OEM
Manufacturer Warranty
- Service & support type 3 years warranty
- Service & Support Details Limited warranty - 3 years
Environmental Parameters
- Min operating temperature 41 °F
- Max operating temperature 131 °F
- Operating humidity range 5 - 85%
- Shock Tolerance 20 g @ 2ms half-sine pulse (operating) / 200 g @ 2ms half-sine pulse (non-operating)
- Vibration Tolerance 0.75 g @ 20-300 Hz (operating) / 4 g @ 20-500 Hz (non-operating)
- Sound emission 39 dBA
- Max operating altitude 9840 ft
Product series
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Western Digital Caviar WD600AB (60GB; Ultra ATA/100)
Manufacturer: Western Digital Corp.
Specs: 60 GB, ATA-100, Internal, 3.5" x 1/3H, 2 MB, 9.5 ms, 5400 rpm
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Western Digital Caviar SE EIDE 120 GB Hard Drive
Manufacturer: Western Digital Corp.
Specs: 120 GB, ATA-100, Internal, 3.5" x 1/3H, 8 MB, 8.9 ms, 7200 rpm
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Western Digital Caviar Special Edition 250 GB hard drive
Manufacturer: Western Digital Corp.
Specs: 250 GB, DMA/ATA-133 (Ultra) Fast Drives, Internal, 3.5" x 1/3H, 8 MB, 8.9 ms, 7200 rpm
Manufacturer info
- Western Digital Corp.
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- Website: http://www.wdc.com/
- Address:
20511 Lake Forest Drive, Lake Forest, CA 92630-7741
