WD Caviar 40GB Hard Drive

Description: This 40GB WD Caviar hard drive boasts best-in-class seek acoustics thanks to WD's enhanced Sound Logic technology. Perfect for your quiet home or business atmosphere, the drive features a significantly reduced acoustic level. Performance fe.... Read More

Description: This 40GB WD Caviar hard drive boasts best-in-class seek acoustics thanks to WD's enhanced Sound Logic technology. Perfect for your quiet home or business atmosphere, the drive features a significantly reduced acoustic level. Performance features include an average read seek time of 8.9ms (typical), track-to-track seek time of 2.0ms (typical), 40,000 start/stop cycles, and a generous 2MB buffer. The disk spins at 7200 RPM, and with Ultra ATA/100 interface, it delivers leading performance.The WD Caviar 20 GB per-platter design offers superior servo performance and areal density. For added robustness, WD uses thicker 50 mil platters, and enhanced the shock and acoustics levels with a new cover design and additional base damper. This new platform also focuses on extendibility, providing leveraging for multiple generations.Shock Guard is a data protection feature to provide outstanding improvements in shock and vibration protection. It permits instantaneous data protection at high shock values to achieve leading shock specifications. Other data reliability features include Data Lifeguard, an exclusive set of data protection features providing shock protection, an environmental protection system and real-time embedded error detection and repair. WD's Data Lifeguard technology automatically finds, isolates, and repairs problems that may develop from extended use of a hard drive. Also, Data Lifeguard Tools software utilities work with embedded Data Lifeguard features to make hard Minimize