g-smooth's Full Review: Western Digital Caviar® Special Edition WD800...
I bought 2 of these at different times in 2003. One I bought in April of 2003 and the other was in the second of of 2003.
Both drives comes with a 3 year warranty.
Rotational Speed: 7200 RPM
Buffer Size: 8 MB
Average Latency: 4.20 ms
Average Read Seek Time: 8.9 ms
Average Write Seek Time: 10.9 ms
Buffer to Disk: 602 Mbits/s
Cylinders: 16,383
No. of Heads: 16 Logical 4 Physical
Sectors Per Track: 63
Formatted Capacity: 80,026 MB
Interface: 40-pin EIDE
Actuator Type: Rotary Voice Coil
No. of Platters: 2
Bytes per Sector: 512
User Sectors per Drive: 156,301,488
Weight: 1.32 lb
Component Design Life: 5 years
I have other hard drives by this maker.
Another drive is an 80 GB 7200 RPM 2 MB Buffer and has a 1 yr. warranty.
I have a 1.6 GB 5200 RPM 128 KB Buffer and has a 3 yr. warranty.
I have a 6.4 GB 5400 RPM 512 KB Buffer and has a 1 yr. warranty. The Component Design Life is 5 years.
Both the 1.6 GB and the 6.4 GB lasted me more than 7 years.
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