Western Digital / Caviar SE / 250GB / 7200 / 8MB / SATA-150 / Hard DriveItem#: TSD-250JD  |  Model#: WD2500JD

Western Digital 250GB Serial ATA Hard Drive
Offering capacities as large as 250 GB, the Western Digital high-performance family of EIDE Hard Drive is equipped with an 8 MB buffer—the largest buffer available today in a desktop EIDE hard drive, delivering data to users faster than any hard drive in its class.

WD Caviar SE Serial ATA hard drives have the features and capacities that are ideal for next-generation computers and low-end enterprise storage. Users benefit from a data transfer rate of 150 MB/s and an improved cabling that enables greater system design flexibility. Designers of enterprise storage systems and servers are increasingly using desktop-class, large-capacity SATA hard drives because of the advantages that the SATA interface provides.

This Drive Holds
- 85 two-hour DVD-quality movies or
- 300 hours of VHS-quality video or
- 177 days of around-the-clock MP3 audio or
- 75,000 vivid digital photos or
- 427 action-packed games!

Features

• 8 MB cache buffer – fast data transfer from a cache.
• 7200 RPM – high-performance rotational speed for high-capacity hard drives.
• Fluid Dynamic Bearing (FDB) technology – improves hard drive reliability; reduces heat, vibration, and noise.
• SecureConnect – provides a 500 percent stronger cable-to-drive connection than first-generation SATA hard drives and cables. Also ensures backward compatibility with legacy SATA cables and backplanes.
• FlexPower – connector technology that accepts power from both industry-standard and new SATA power supplies.
• Point-to-point bus configuration – utilizes the full bandwidth of each drive interface in a networked environment.
• Hot plug support – ability to swap out a hard drive without having to power down the system or reboot promotes system design flexibility, data availability, and serviceability.
• Backplane compatibility – promotes expandability and flexibility in system architecture.