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Items In SSD & Hard Drives You Might Be Interested InProduct Details of WD 80GB 2.5" Hard DriveDescription Carrying on the heritage of WD Caviar SE hard drive as industry-leading performers, Western Digital offers WD Caviar SE Serial ATA hard drive which feature capacity of 80 GB and an 8 MB buffer, to fill acute demand in market segments such as high-end PC, workstation, and entry-level servers. Designers of enterprise storage systems and servers are increasingly using desktop-class, large-capacity ATA hard drive because of the advantages provided by the SATA interface. Benefits include a data transfer rate of 150 MB/s and improved cabling that enables greater system design flexibility. Quick Glance Internal/External: Internal Interface: 7-pin Serial ATA/150 Serial ATA Drive Width: 3.5" Drive Type: Hard Drive Capacity: 80000 Rotational Speed: 7200 Cache Size: 8 Summary Product Title: WD 80GB 2.5" Hard Drive Manufacturer: WD Lowest Price: $19.00 Power Score: 4.3 | 11 Reviews Storage Capacity: 80 GB Interface Interface Type: 7-pin Serial ATA/150 Serial ATA Interface Connection: Serial ATA - 7 pin Performance Drive Type: Hard Drive Rotational Speed: 7200 rpm Cache Size: 8 MB General Class: Hard Drive Category: > 5.0gb IDE/EIDE Internal/External: Internal Form Factor Width: 3.5" Dimensions Weight: 1.32 lbs Dimensions: 1.03" Height x 4" Width x 5.79" Depth Warranty Warranty Information: 3 Year Limited More Info URL: Manufacturer Link Additional Specifications Frequency Band: Operating - Random: 0.004 g2/Hz (10 to 300 Hz) Non-operating - Linear: 5-20 Hz, 0.195 inches (dbl amp) Hot Swappable: Yes Compatible Drive Bay Height: 1/3H Maximum Internal Data Transfer Rate: 93.5 MBps (748 Mbps) Average Latency: 4.20 ms SATA Pin: 7-pin Drive Height: 1/3H Drive Width: 3.5" Reviews on WD 80GB 2.5" Hard Drive
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farseer911
- Mar 13, 2005
WD 80GB 2.5" Hard DriveStrengths: Great price, under .60 a GiG, slight performance gain for a relativly low cost. Weakness: Runs a little hotter than my IDE drives. For the extra performance gain that I did see in some applications it was an incredibly good investment. It was easy to set up and install. It formatted exceptionally quick. I do not hear the noise that others are talking about, mine runs pretty quiet.
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jerfletcher
- Sep 3, 2004
WD 80GB 2.5" Hard DriveStrengths: very fast Weakness: none I love that this hard drive has a 8mg cache. I am using this to record digital music with and bought an external oxford 911 encosure for it. It is working great!
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turpit
- Oct 22, 2004
WD 80GB 2.5" Hard DriveStrengths: very quiet Weakness: SATA connector, power connector Over the years I have used multiple IBM, Maxtor, Seagate and Western digital IDE/EIDE HDDs. This is my first SATA drive. I have always been pleased with WD HDDs Physical installation was typically easy. Connection to the power supply was somewhat annoying. There are 2 power in options: 1) the SATA power supply 2) the standard 4 pin molex connector. The molex connector had a block-off plate which...
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ucf99eng
- Feb 18, 2005
WD 80GB 2.5" Hard DriveStrengths: Easy setup and data migration from current hard drive. Weakness: Makes a sound whenever I turn on and off my computer This is a really good drive that is easy to set up. I got the drive OEM (without any literature or installation disks) from newegg. I downloaded the Data Lifeguard software windows edition and it was really easy to transfer all my files from my current parallel ATA hard drive. I plan on buying another drive so I can Raid 0 them together. The only bad part is I hear a buzzing sound whenever I turn...
By anonymous - Apr 8, 2006
Not so well...Strengths: good price for the service and space... others say its good to Weakness: not quite cutting it i got my drive in the mail yesterday and hooked it up... not detected. i played around with bios settings, swapped cables out, etc... still no go. took it to a computer shop to have them try it out... low and behold, the drive was dead. somewhere in the loop some crappy QA was done, and this drive slipped out malfunctioning.
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Bobob
- Jan 14, 2005
WD 80GB 2.5" Hard DriveStrengths: Western Digital is the best Weakness: SATA - do I really need it yet? I got this because I figured I might need SATA sometime. It turns out I probably will never use it and should have for the money gotten a little bit bigger IDE hard drive. But the small cables are nice and the drive is perfect, I've yet to have a WD go bad on me and I've run several for years non-stop. Highly recommended.
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brassjunky
- Nov 26, 2004
WD 80GB 2.5" Hard DriveStrengths: good, fast hard drive This hard drive is a good, fast, reliable hard drive in my opinion. I've had Western Digital hard drive's in the past, and for the most part I have always been pleased.
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jhavron
- Sep 12, 2004
WD 80GB 2.5" Hard DriveStrengths: Its a WD Weakness: SATA technology is not perfect yet. I sugest going with IDE if you can. I seeen no preformance gain on my benchmarks. Ordered this by a mistake trying to order an IDE drive. But ended up using it after a WD 160 SATA (wow the noise that comes out of that one) did some funny stuff. So I currently have it in there incase the 160 dies I don't loose everything. Just the stuff I liked...
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kpduy
- Apr 16, 2005
WD 80GB 2.5" Hard DriveStrengths: Fast data transfer, smooth and quiet running Weakness: Messed up with partition, the letter of Local drive C is always messed up to another drive letter when I tried to format it before installing Window. The Caviar WD800JD 80GB Hard Drive (Serial ATA-150, 7200 RPM, 8MB) that I have now is the second one. It is running very good and fast, I’d like to use it to install Window in it itself rather than other type of disks. Advertisement  
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WD 80GB 2.5" Hard Drive
Strengths: Fast, quiet, reliable, easy to install. Comes for both molex and SATA power.
Weakness: no
I bought the bare drive and download all programs from Wester Digital site. Installation ran smooth and the copy of my old drive to the new one was excellent, that's a great addition.