Turbo-charge your data performance with the efficient Western Digital HD Caviar SE16 500GB IDE hard disk drive inside your desktop PC. Hook this hard drive up to your EIDE connection and enjoy the advantage of a swift performance, backed by the drive's 16MB cache that keeps more of your data in high-speed memory for an exceptional data transfer operation. Furthering the speed is the 7200 RPM spindle specification, ensuring this is a spectacular hard drive to be deployed in your PC system.
Giving you half a terabyte of digital storage space, the Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB ATA hard drive can be used in home and office PCs, providing you with the capacity to store a huge amount of documents, video, music, photos, spreadsheets and other data files. Great news for Vista users - WD Caviar drives are certifed for Windows Vista and are top performers on the Windows Vista Experience Index.
Astonishingly powerful and packed with features. IntelliSeek technology is on board to calculate optimum seek speeds to ensure lower power consumption, noise and vibration, ensuring cost-effectiveness and durability for your data. The recording head never touches the disk thanks to SecurePark technology, increasing lifespan exponentially. Enhancing the performance even further, the drive arm frequently sweeps across the disk to reduce uneven wear on the drive surface.
| Product Description | WD Caviar SE16 WD5000AAKB - hard drive - 500 GB - ATA-100 |
| Device Type | Hard drive - internal |
| Form Factor | 3.5" x 1/3H |
| Capacity | 500 GB |
| Interface Type | ATA-100 |
| Data Transfer Rate | 100 MBps |
| Average Seek Time | 8.9 ms |
| Spindle Speed | 7200 rpm |
| Buffer Size | 16 MB |
| Dimensions (WxDxH) | 10.2 cm x 14.7 cm x 2.54 cm |
| Weight | 0.63 kg |
| Manufacturer Warranty | 3 years warranty |
Designed for high-performance business computers and multimedia or gaming systems. Ideal as an upgrade or replacement drive for any high-end EIDE system.
- Top performance for Windows Vista - WD Caviar SE16 SATA and EIDE drives are certified for Windows Vista and are top performers on the Windows Vista Experience Index.
- 16 MB Cache - Bigger cache means faster performance. A massive 16 MB cache combined with advanced acoustic and power-reducing technologies make these ultra-fast drives the perfect solution for the fully loaded PC.
- IntelliSeek - Calculates optimum seek speeds to lower power consumption, noise and vibration.
- SecurePark - Parks the recording heads off the disk surface during spin up, spin down and when the drive is off. This ensures the recording head never touches the disk surface resulting in improved long term reliability due to less head wear, and improved non-operational shock tolerance.
- Preemptive Wear Leveling (PWL) - The drive arm frequently sweeps across the disk to reduce uneven wear on the drive surface.
- Up to 142,000 digital photos
- Up to 125,000 songs (MP3)
- Up to 12,00 songs (uncompressed CD quality)
- Up to 38 hours of Digital Video (DV)
- Up to 200 hours of DVD quality video
- Up to 60 hours of HD video