Western Digital 120 GB 7200 RPM Ultra ATA/100 IDE Internal Hard Drive

by Western Digital

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• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• ASIN: B0000630MO
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: January 12, 2006

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Designed for high-end desktop PCs and single-user workstations, Western Digital 7,200 rpm drives outperform ordinary EIDE and even low-end SCSI solutions, with average transfer rates 33 percent faster than conventional 5,400 rpm drives. The hard drive comes with a Cable Select-compliant 40-pin, 80-conductor IDE interface cable, mounting screws, jumpers, installation poster, installation guide, and Data Lifeguard Tools installation software and utilities.

Western Digital hard drives set the industry performance standard by providing Ultra ATA/100 technology. This interface allows for data transfer rates of up to 100 MBps, 50 percent faster than Ultra ATA/66, resulting in increased performance and data integrity. Ultra ATA/100 is also backward compatible.

Customer Reviews

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6 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars The spinning sound is getting louder, January 14, 2003

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W. Wu (Waynesboro, VA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Western Digital 120 GB 7200 RPM Ultra ATA/100 IDE Internal Hard Drive (Electronics)

I have the 8 MB cache version of this hard drive. The speed of this hard drive is ok. Ease of installation is average. It runs quietly until recently the spinning sound is getting louder. Also once in a while it makes some kind of clicking noise followed by a beep. I used to own Seagate, Quantum, and Maxtor hard drives and none of them have this kind of noise.

So far there is no data loss or any kind of damage. But this is very annoying because I am afraid that something is going to happen.

6 of 45 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent choice for a hard drive, October 21, 2002

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"supremeshadowkai" (Orange County, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Western Digital 120 GB 7200 RPM Ultra ATA/100 IDE Internal Hard Drive (Electronics)

This hard drive is by far, the best one on the market. I'm sure that the 160 and 180 gb are just as good. I was building my own computer, and trying to get the best of everything. First, the installation was easy. As I built my computer the hd was one of the last things that I connected. For your info I have built two 2 computers using this drive. First one was a pentium 4 2.8 ghz. With an Asus P4PE board. I used an ATI Radeon 9700 Pro for video,1.5 gb of DDR RAM. I used an antec alluminum case with 3 case fans. I used a Sound Blaster 5.1 Live Audigy Platinum. I had 3 case fans, a glass window on my case, a DVD RW pioneer drive, and a teac floppy. The second one was almost identical, except it used a duel athlon I was extremely happy with it, and I suggest that anyone interested in a hd seriously consider this one.