Western Digital Caviar® Special Edition WD1200JB 120 GB ATA-100 Hard Drive

WD Caviar 120 GB Special Edition, the latest addition to Western Digital's reliable, award-winning hard drive family, is designed to maximize desktop computer performance for activities requiring high-performance hard drives such as computer gaming, digital video editing, and file server applications. The WD Caviar 120 GB Special Edition is equipped with an 8 MB buffer - the largest buffer available today in a 7200 RPM desktop EIDE hard drive, delivering data to users faster than any hard drive in its class. ??The Special Edition hard drive provides a higher percentage of cache hits than industry-standard 2 MB versions. Within the complex operations of hard drives, the buffer is used to hold the results of recent reads from the disk, and also to "pre-fetch" information that is likely to be requested in the near future. The use of an increased buffer improves the performance by reducing the number of physical accesses to the disk and allowing data to stream from the disk uninterrupt...

Product MPN
MPN		WD1200JB
Key Features
HDD Form Factor		3.5' x 1/3H (Low Profile)
Capacity		120 GB
Designation		Desktop Computer
Interface		IDE/EIDE
Enclosure		Internal
Spindle Speed		7200 RPM
Technical Features
External Data Transfer Rate		100 MBps
Seek Time		8.9 ms
Average Latency		4.17 ms
Internal Data Transfer Rate		602 Mbit/s
Sound Emission		39 dB
Interface (Detailed)		DMA/ATA-100 (Ultra)
Buffer Size		8 MB
Other Features
Platform		PC, Mac
Brand		Western Digital
Package Qty.		1
Dimensions
Height		1.02 in.
Depth		5.79 in.
Width		4.02 in.
Weight		1.32 lb.
Warranty
Warranty		3 Years
Miscellaneous
Product ID		20180964
UPC		718037104522