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WD Caviar Black

Milo Riano — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 07:04:02 +0000

Terrabyte is the future of mass consumer hard drive usage and Western Digital has a line of large disk space drives starting with their WD Caviar Black. Performance specification is as follows:

Performance Specifications

Transfer Rates

Buffer To Host (Serial ATA): 3 Gb/s (Max)

Physical Specifications

Formatted Capacity: 1,000,236 MB

Capacity: 1 TB

Interface: SATA 3 Gb/s

User Sectors Per Drive: 1,953,525,168

Physical Dimensions

English

Height: 1.028 Inches

Length: 5.787 Inches

Width: 4.00 Inches

Weight: 1.52 Pounds

Metric

Height: 25.4 mm

Length: 147 mm

Width: 101.6 mm

Weight: 0.69 kg

Environmental Specifications

Shock

Operating Shock (Read): 30G, 2 ms

Non-operating Shock: 250G, 2 ms

Acoustics

Idle Mode: 24 dBA (average)

Seek Mode 0: 33 dBA (average)

Seek Mode 3: 29 dBA (average)

Temperature (English)

Operating: 32° F to 140° F

Non-operating: -40° F to 158° F

Temperature (Metric)

Operating: -0° C to 60° C

Non-operating: -40° C to 70° C

Humidity

Operating: 5-95% RH non-condensing

Non-operating: 5-95% RH non-condensing

Altitude (English)

Operating: -1,000 feet to 10,000 feet

Non-operating: -1,000 feet to 40,000 feet

Altitude (Metric)

Operating
-305M to 3,050M

Non-operating: -305M to 12,200M

Vibration

Operating: 0.004 g²/Hz (10 to 300 Hz)

Non-operating: 0.05 g²/Hz (10 to 300 Hz)

Operating

Linear: 20-300 Hz, 0.75 G (0 to peak)

Random: 0.004 g²/Hz (10 to 300 Hz)

Non-operating

Low Frequency: 0.05 g²/Hz (10 to 300 Hz)

High Frequency: 20-500 Hz, 4.0G (0 to peak)

Electrical Specifications

Current Requirements

12 VDC

Read/Write: 490 mA

Idle: 470 mA

Standby: 5 mA

Sleep: 5 mA

5 VDC

Read/Write: 500 mA

Idle: 420 mA

Standby: 160 mA

Sleep: 160 mA

Power Dissipation

Read/Write: 8.40 Watts

Idle: 7.8 Watts

Standby: 1.00 Watts

Sleep: 1.00 Watts

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WD Caviar Black

Post 0406: WD Caviar Blue

Milo Riano — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 05:02:08 +0000

Need more power than the conventional 160GB hard drives that come in laptops and 320GB hard drives from desktop computers? Western Digital’s WD Caviar Blue can meet most user specifications at 750GB capacity. Below are the technical specs for Caviar Blue:

Performance Specifications

Transfer Rates

Buffer To Host (Serial ATA): 3 Gb/s (Max)

Physical Specifications

Formatted Capacity: 750,156 MB

Capacity: 750 GB

Interface: SATA 3 Gb/s

User Sectors Per Drive: 1,465,149,168

Physical Dimensions

English

Height: 1.028 Inches

Length: 5.787 Inches

Width: 4.00 Inches

Weight: 1.39 Pounds

Metric

Height: 26.1 mm

Length: 147 mm

Width: 101.6 mm

Weight: 0.63 kg

Environmental Specifications

Shock

Operating Shock (Read): 65G, 2 ms

Non-operating Shock: 350G, 2 ms

Acoustics

Idle Mode: 28 dBA (average)

Seek Mode 0: 33 dBA (average)

Seek Mode 3: 29 dBA (average)

Temperature (English)

Operating: 32° F to 140° F

Non-operating: -40° F to 149° F

Temperature (Metric)

Operating: -0° C to 60° C

Non-operating: -40° C to 65° C

Humidity

Operating: 5-95% RH non-condensing

Non-operating: 5-95% RH non-condensing

Altitude (English)

Operating: -1,000 feet to 10,000 feet

Non-operating: -1,000 feet to 40,000 feet

Altitude (Metric)

Operating: -305M to 3,050M

Non-operating: -305M to 12,200M

Vibration

Operating

Linear: 20-300 Hz, 0.75 G (0 to peak)

Random: 7-500 Hz (0.00221 g² / Hz)

Non-operating

Low Frequency: 10-300 Hz, 0.195 inches (double amplitude)

High Frequency: 300-500 Hz, 5.0G (0 to peak)

Electrical Specifications

Current Requirements

12 VDC

Read/Write: 460 mA

Idle: 450 mA

Standby: 6 mA

Sleep: 6 mA

5 VDC

Read/Write: 650 mA

Idle: 600 mA

Standby: 180 mA

Sleep: 180 mA

Power Dissipation

Read/Write: 8.77 Watts

Idle: 8.40 Watts

Standby: 0.97 Watts

Sleep: 0.97 Watts

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