Western Digital 40GB 7200RPM 2MB CACHE IDE Bulk/OEM Hard Drive WD400BB

by Western Digital

Product Details

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• Item Weight: 2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B00006HNZ1
• Item model number: WD400BB
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 29, 2002

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

WD Caviar High-Performance 7200 hard drives are the performance champions for advanced desktop personal computers.

• Rotational Speed: 7200 RPM
• Capacities: Up To 250 GB
• Interface: Ultra ATA/100
• Average Read Seek Time: 8.9 ms
• Buffer Size: 2 MB
• Data Lifeguard: WD's exclusive hardware, software and services designed to protect your data.

Product Description

40GB CAVIAR EIDE ATA100 7200

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Review your choices first, October 16, 2010

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Thunderofok - See all my reviews

This review is from: Western Digital 40GB 7200RPM 2MB CACHE IDE Bulk/OEM Hard Drive WD400BB (Personal Computers)

As a computer technician this is the MOST REPLACED DRIVE. The seller isn't the problem here, it's the hard drive itself.

The drive will work for some time, usually between 1 to 3 years. However, after that period there is a failure that occurs in the IDE controller circuitry for the drive causing a massive failure.

Symptoms are occasional unexpected and often sudden mis-mapping of the drive within the BIOS settings leading to an unrecognized drive or missing drive, file size reporting errors, random instability of the drive's operation on various OS's, and files that aren't readable while in operation.

Once the drive completely fails all files are usually lost.

Users should carefully look into newer drives by Western Digital and choose a drive compatible to your OS. In addition, those who have the WD400BB should consider moving important files to another drive and exchange this drive for another. Pricing is comparable and it will do you much better.

In most instances the seller's are not at fault. This appears to be an issue with one or more products produced by Western Digital Inc, recently discovered. This issue has come to my attention in the past year after several warranties expired and customers saw problems. At present it's the most replaced hard drive in my operation.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Think about the future, April 8, 2006

By 

Robert Rossi "Cold Blast" (Minneapolis, MN United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Western Digital 40GB 7200RPM 2MB CACHE IDE Bulk/OEM Hard Drive WD400BB (Personal Computers)

This drive kept me happy for four years. Yesterday, while the computer wasn't being used, I came home to find the blue screen of death; corrupt partition table. Attempted to repair it, only to reboot to the ominous "click click click" referenced at several places that offer to retrieve your data for $850 or so. I'm happy I make backups. (The drive can not be repaired - it's toast. Only physical repair will allow retrieval of the data.)

Four years may seem like a long time, but catastrophic failures like this seem common with these drives at around this age point, and they make saving a few bucks on the front end less than worthwhile.

This is the second Western Digital drive I've had fail on me. (The first one came installed in an IBM laptop.) Maybe I keep my computers too long. Maybe I should have drawn a conclusion from the first one. I've certainly drawn it now.

5.0 out of 5 stars Made a BIG Difference, January 14, 2012

By 

Robert Coppersmith (Seffner, FL, US) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Western Digital 40GB 7200RPM 2MB CACHE IDE Bulk/OEM Hard Drive WD400BB (Personal Computers)

This was a great replacement drive on a netbook hat made it amazingly fast, comparatively speaking. Notebook drive, at least the lower end ones are so slow!