Western Digital WD400BBRTL 40 GB 7200 RPM Hard Drive

by Western Digital

Product Details

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• Item Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B00005B8LT
• Item model number: WD400BBRTL
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: March 22, 2001

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

With its 40 GB storage capacity, Western Digital's 7,200 rpm hard drive is designed for advanced desktop personal computers, making it an ideal storage system for Internet downloads, music, video, and other large files. The high-performance drive offers Ultra ATA/100 and Ultra ATA/66 interfaces, low seek times, and up to 100 MBps data transfer rates. The drive includes Data Lifeguard, Western Digital's exclusive combination of hardware features and software utilities that guard your data and software tools and make it easy to install, configure, and maintain your drive.

This drive comes with a three-year limited warranty.

Product Description

Caviar 40 GB 7200 RPM Internal Hard Drive with 3.5in. diameter EIDE Ultra ATA/100 Retail

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Disk-To-Disk Copy Software, September 28, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Western Digital WD400BBRTL 40 GB 7200 RPM Hard Drive (Personal Computers)

I had a 20-Gig, IBM drive on my 3-year-old P-2, W98 system and upgraded to the Western Digital 40-Gig not so much for the increased storage but for the 7200 rpm spin speed, hoping for a performance improvement. It indeed improved. The first and most noticable was when my desktop (cluttered, LOTS of icons plus Office toolbar) came up MUCH more quickly than before. Plus, the drive is VERY quiet - cannot hear it clicking away like my former. I replaced my current drive 0 with this unit and the supplied software made the disk-to-disk transfer very easy (although it took almost 4 hours for the copy.) The software even detected and FIXED the fact that my BIOS wouldn't recognize a drive of greated than 32 Gig. The only problem I had was not being able to boot after doing the copy and replacing my old drive. Tech Support got to me within 2 minutes and supplied a remedy (jumper settings) within 5 minutes.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Conclusion should consider it., August 3, 2001

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Abdulbaqi (UAE) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Western Digital WD400BBRTL 40 GB 7200 RPM Hard Drive (Personal Computers)

Conclusion

Packing just two platters, the WD400BB is indeed a quiet and cool design. Active cooling should be unnecessary in most cases. Even when seeking, the drive is quiet. Though not as silent as units from Fujitsu or Samsung, the drive is nonetheless quieter than recent units from Maxtor, themselves not exactly roaring disks.

The 400BB's WinMark scores shatter previous records... they stand in a class of their own. IOMeter scores, though not staggering, represent improvement over previous models (and some of the competition, for that matter). When combined with quiet and cool operation, such performance makes WD's unit a viable alternative to the Quantum Fireball LM (fast but noisy) and, depending on final pricing, the Deskstar 75GXP (fast but relatively pricey). Those looking for a drive smaller than 40 gigs should consider it.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars hmmm, December 24, 2001

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Dannyboy (Fresno, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Western Digital WD400BBRTL 40 GB 7200 RPM Hard Drive (Personal Computers)

Its a GREAT harddrive on its own, but the price really .... I could have bought a 100GB hard drive for less, but amazon.com always gave me the packge, so i bought it here. Its quiet, not like it matters, now my computer lods almost 3 times as fast. And the size is nice and comfy. Should last about 6yrs if you dont try to save space, if ya do well...... A long time..... The 7200rpm makes it NICE! However, the biggest drawback was installing it. Getting it hooked up was easy. I just copied EVERYTHING on my old 10GB hard drive, to the new 40GB hard drive, and it took about an hour, well just do it in the morning, and when your home from work, it should be done ;)