Western Digital Spartan 13.6 GB Hard Disk Drive
Manufacturer: Western Digital
Product Type: CE
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Product Description
The award-winning WD Caviar family provides the best combination of performance, reliability and value for today's entry-level and mainstream desktop systems. Western Digital's WD Caviar hard drives allow host computers to send and receive data at higher rates resulting in increased performance and data integrity. Giant magnetoresistive heads meet the increasing capacity requirements and achieve significant increases in areal densities and performance levels. This Western Digital exclusive feature, automatically detects, isolates and repairs problem areas on the hard drive to prevent the loss of data. This proactive data-reliability feature improves drive performance through a continuous self-tuning process that performs scans and repairs while the drive is idle. Data Lifeguard is both an enhancement and an extension to Western Digital's S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) system that monitors and predicts the performance of hard drives.
Amazon.com Product Description
Western Digital's Spartan 13.6 GB EIDE hard drive features 13.6 GB of storage capacity with an Ultra ATA/66 interface. This high-level capacity allows users to store information for many varied applications, such as downloading information from the Internet and storing MP3 music. The Western Digital Caviar also offers low seek time, high capacity, and up to a 66.6 MBps data transfer rate, which adds up to fast data delivery. To protect your data, Western Digital includes Data Lifeguard with embedded features that guard your data and software tools that make installation, configuration, and diagnostics simple and worry free.
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