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Died under 2 years...two of them!
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1 yr 3 months - drive died!! Crappy drive, don't waste your money, this is the 2nd WD1200JB,...
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Western Digital WD1200JB Caviar Special Edition 120GB Internal Hard Drive

Manufacturer: Western Digital
Product Group: CE
Binding: Electronics
ASIN: B000077X5L

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Product 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.

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Died under 2 years...two of them!.......2006-07-23

OK, so when I built my machine in Oct, 2004 I bought 2 of these drives and never needed the 2nd one...never even formatted it. So a couple weeks ago my primary just dies with no warning...even Spinrite couldn't do anything with it after 2 weeks of running. So, at least I have the 2nd drive to use right? Wrong, the 2nd drive that was never used died too!!! My bad for installing the 2nd drive before I needed it, but I didn't realize that they spin constantly, whether being used or not. So 2 drives died at the exact same time?!?!? I'll never purchase another WD product.

Not too shabby.......2006-01-31

Had this hard drive already installed in a computer I bought off an acquaintance. I immediately noticed the extremely high pitch loud noise, which turned out to be caused by this hard drive and another Western Digital 60 gb. It has been working great and is actually rather fast while playing games, so it would be very strange if both HDs had a fault that made them this loud, but were working perfectly in every other way. If I had the chance, I'd have gotten a different computer though, because the noise is almost unbearable at times.

1 yr 3 months - drive died!! Crappy drive, don't waste your money, this is the 2nd WD1200JB,..........2005-09-27

drive I had fail shortly after 1 year and there is only a 1 year warranty. BUY SEAGATE DRIVES with the 3 year warranty you won't be disappointed!!!! I am waiting for my 3 other IDE WD drives to fail so I can replace these 3 drives also with Seagate drives... These drives are as bad as Maxtor!

Outstanding.......2004-11-13

I have owned this hard drive for some time now and have only praise for it. Western Digital has set the standard for hard drives today.

WD1200JB Review & Comparison.......2004-03-29

The WD1200JB was desigened with the power-user/PC enthusiast in mind. When it came out ($379), it gave you desktop performance that rival's top SCSI drives of the times. Once the domain of high-end SCSI drives, 7200 RPM spindles are now standard on mainstream IDE/ATA drives.

While Western Digital and the Storage Device industry have moved on to faster drives and more convenient standards for such market, for example, Serial ATA (SATA) and 10,000 RPM, this is not the HD for the power-user anymore, but it certainly is the best bang for your buck out there. So the mainstream, normal PC users, is definitely recommended to invest on this baby.

I would like to point that unfortunately no product is infallible and that is why this drives bring a 3 year manufacturer warranty. For example I read of a guy having problems with his Western Digital and opting for an IBM. Do not let one bad lemon keep you away from this product. Furthermore, the choice of IBM is an interestingly ironic one. The Western Digital drive may have 'died' on this gentleman, and by the way, he could have recovered that data back most probably, but most customers that have bought WD1200JB have nothing but praise towards it; on the other hand, only a couple of years ago, IBM customers sought class action suit status and damages for allegedly crash-prone IBM Deskstar drives. I bought one of such IBM drive and it died, all my data had been backed up, like all users should periodically do. Then I returned it for a full refund, and bought another Desktar a few months later, it died again. Well to much of a coincidence I thought, that is when I discovered the class action suit, from now on I do a more thorough research before buying a Hard Drive or anything else, not only on performance but also satisfaction over time. And taking this research into account, the WD1200JB has been out for over two years now, I recommend it whole heartedly.

Finally, I would not buy it from amazon, their price is not the best, around 15% higher than what I have found elsewhere. For example, newegg and mwave carry similarly priced WD1200JBs and are just under $100 as I write this (you can google for their URL since amazon prefers that URLs are not part of reviews). To be honest, I am not sure if amazon will have a problem with this paragraph, but I suggest they lower their price if the do have such a problem. Do take into account that all the above mentioned prices, in this paragraph, will undoubtedly change with time.

~ Technical Info ~
* 7200 RPM spindle speed
* three 40 GB platters
* avg. seek time 8.9 milliseconds
* 8MB buffer
* 3-year manufacturer warranty

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Manufacturer: Generic
Product Group: CE
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ASIN: B000K3E328

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Portable storage solution! This 1 GBFlash Hard Drive (commonly referred to as a Pen Drive) stores your valuable data, digital music and photos! It features a USB 2.0 interface for fast data transfers and its compact and portable design fits in the palm of your hand! Simply plug this flash drive into your PCs USB port, download your files and carry your information with you at all times!

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