Western Digital Caviar WD800BB 80 GB

Description: Model ID WD800BBRTL2 / WD Caviar WD800BB - Hard drive - 80 GB - internal - 3.5" - ATA-100 - 7200 rpm - buffer: 2 MB / Award-winning WD Caviar ... more

Western Digital Caviar WD800BB 80 GB ... hard drives provide performance, reliability and value for a full range of desktop systems. WD's Caviar hard drives achieve world-class areal densities and a wide range of drive capacities. These capacities will allow users to store information for many varied applications, such as downloading information from the Internet and storing MPEG music.

Newest Review: ... screwdriver for this), oh, and it's a good idea to turn it off first, slide your new shiny drive into a free 3.5" ... more

... drive bay, do some more screws up, connect up the power and IE cable. That's the easy bit. By default the unit is shipped with the jumper set to MASTER. If you wish to use it as a second hard disk, simply move the jumper to the SLAVE setting, a diagram is on the drive itself. As we were to use this as a master, I left it at that. The first problem we had was that the BIOS in the computer did not recognise the hard disk at ...more

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Price Comparison for Western Digital Caviar WD800BB 80 GB

	WD Caviar WD800BB - hard drive - 80 GB -ATA-100 Western Digital - the leader for high quality hard drives, intr ... Last Update 30.12.2009 05:48	£ 31.96	£ 4.59

WD Caviar WD800BB - hard drive - 80 GB -ATA-100
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Last Update 30.12.2009 05:48

£ 31.96

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Western Digital Caviar WD800BB 80 GB: Luxury gigabytes (693 words)
by - written on 27/03/04 (Very useful, 651 readings)
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I knew we needed a new hard disk ages ago, as we were forever deleting things to make room for new things. You just never have enough space these days with the huge amount of MP3 files, photographs, and never ending amount of "useful" program installations. We put it off until the last minute, well until the old 10Gb hard disk started to fail. We chose the Western Digital Caviar 80Gb model for several reasons. Firstly the price, it happened to be on special offer from Dustins, which is a cheapish computer supplier here in Sweden. The equivalent UK price would be around 60 pounds, ... Read the complete review

Technical Details for Western Digital Caviar WD800BB 80 GB

Product Description	WD Caviar WD800BB - hard drive - 80 GB - ATA-100
Type	Hard drive - internal
Form Factor	3.5" x 1/3H
Dimensions (WxDxH)	10.2 cm x 14.7 cm x 2.6 cm
Weight	0.6 kg
Capacity	80 GB
Interface Type	ATA-100
Data Transfer Rate	100 MBps
Average Seek Time	8.9 ms
Spindle Speed	7200 rpm
Sectors per Track	63
Bytes per Sector	512
Buffer Size	2 MB