Western Digital Caviar SE EIDE 120 GB Hard Drive

Manufacturer: Western Digital Corp. Part number: WD1200JB

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Average user rating: 3.0 stars out of 73 reviews

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Bottom Line:: This high-volume drive offers outstanding sustained throughput and Western Digital's reputation for excellence and reliability.
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Average user rating: 3.0 stars out of 73 reviews
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8 stars

Worked for 1 year then quit

by on September 4, 2004

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.
3 stars

Failed!

by on October 28, 2004

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.
10 stars

WD is the way to go!

by on April 8, 2003

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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 ...

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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 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!

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2 out of 2 users found this user opinion helpful.
4 stars

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 ...

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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.

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1 out of 1 users found this user opinion helpful.
7 stars

Died hard in 9 days...lost all my data

by on January 18, 2003

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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 ...

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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 tells me that it must be an isolated failure, but that doesn't seem to help.

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1 out of 1 users found this user opinion helpful.
4 stars

This is my BackUp Drive & it Die after 3 weeks w/ all my work.

by on December 6, 2002

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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 ...

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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 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.

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1 out of 1 users found this user opinion helpful.
9 stars

Best drive I have ever owned.

by on August 11, 2002

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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. ...

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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. 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.

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1 out of 1 users found this user opinion helpful.
8 stars

Fastest IDE drive i ever had.

by on June 27, 2002

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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.
1 stars

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 ...

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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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Lack of Support, Drives fail

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9 stars

Best Quality and Value buy for any OS

by on January 12, 2005

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

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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 (external) / 75.3 MBps (internal)
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

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