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Western Digital Caviar Blue WD1600AAJB 160GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache IDE

Western Digital Caviar Blue WD1600AAJB 160GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache IDE

SKU #: WD1600AAJB
MFG #: WD1600AAJB
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This WD Caviar Blue hard drive ensures a cool-running, quiet operation, and superior performance for desktop and business applications.

Availability: In stock

$79.99

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The original. These drives are built utilizing the tried and true proven technology of the original award-winning WD Caviar 3.5-inch hard drives for desktop computers.	SATA or PATA interface. While SATA has become the industry standard interface, WD continues to manufacture desktop drives with a PATA interface for unique or legacy systems.	Value. Built to the highest standards of quality and reliability, these drives offer features and capacity at an affordable price.	Did you know... It's easy to install an internal hard drive in your computer. Here's how

Solid performance.

With SATA and PATA interfaces, and cache sizes up to 32 MB, this series of drives offer a full range of performance features.

Capacity.

We offer WD Caviar Blue drives with capacities from 80 GB to 1 TB because you can never have too much storage space.

Ultra cool and quiet.

Keeping the drive cool enhances reliability. WD continues to develop new and innovative ways to keep drives cool while they are operating which helps protect the drive and the data stored on it.

Compatible.

We perform tests on hundreds of systems and a multitude of platforms in our FIT Lab and Mobile Compatibility Lab to give our customers confidence that our drives will work in their systems.

Interface.

PATA - Enhanced integrated drive electronics (EIDE), also called Parallel ATA (PATA), hard drives have been the standard in the computer industry for more than 10 years.

SATA - Serial ATA (SATA) hard drives are quickly becoming the new standard. Motherboard manufacturers now include SATA inputs on their boards. Because of their considerably narrower cables, SATA hard drives provide increased airflow and less clutter and in the computer system compared to PATA drives.

The performance difference - PATA drives support data transfer rates up to 100MB/sec, and all WD Caviar Blue SATA drive support 3 Gb/s transfer rates.

How to choose - Our handy Interface Guide can help you make your selection.

ShockGuard.

Instantaneously protects the hard drive against damage from bumps and vibrations while it is running. This technology enables WD Caviar drives to achieve industry-leading shock specifications.

NoTouch ramp load technology.

The recording head never touches the disk media ensuring significantly less wear to the recording head and media as well as better drive protection in transit. IntelliSeek - Calculates optimum seek speeds to lower power consumption, noise and vibration.

Ideal for:

Family and business computing.

Desktop / Consumer RAID Environments - WD Caviar Blue Hard Drives are tested and recommended for use in consumer-type RAID applications. (RAID-0 / RAID-1)*

* Product descriptions, pricing, and availability are subject to change without notice
* Product descriptions are sourced from our vendors. Please see manufacturers website for the most up-to-date descriptions.

WD Caviar Blue 160 GB PATA Hard Drives ( WD1600AAJB)

Drive Specification Sheet (PDF)

Performance Specifications
	Rotational Speed	7,200 RPM (nominal)
	Buffer Size	8 MB
	Average Latency	4.20 ms (nominal)
	Load/unload Cycles	50,000 minimum

Seek Times
	Read Seek Time	8.9 ms
	Write Seek Time	10.9 ms (average)
	Track-To-Track Seek Time	2.0 ms (average)
	Full Stroke Seek	21.0 ms (average)

Transfer Rates
	Transfer Rate (Buffer To Disk)	972 Mb/s (Max)

Physical Specifications
	Formatted Capacity	160,041 MB
	Capacity	160 GB
	Interface	PATA 100 MB/s
	User Sectors Per Drive	312,581,808

Physical Dimensions
English
	Height	1.028 Inches
	Depth	5.787 Inches
	Width	4.00 Inches
	Weight	1.07 Pounds

Metric
	Height	25.4 mm
	Depth	147 mm
	Width	101.6 mm
	Weight	0.485 kg

Environmental Specifications
Shock
	Operating Shock (Read)	65G, 2 ms
	Non-operating Shock	350G, 2 ms

Acoustics
	Idle Mode	24 dBA (average)
	Seek Mode 0	27 dBA (average)
	Seek Mode 3	25 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	10-300 Hz, 0.008 g² / Hz

	Non-operating
	Low Frequency	5-20 Hz, 0.195 inches (double amplitude)
	High Frequency	20-500 Hz, 4.0G (0 to peak)

Electrical Specifications
Current Requirements
	12 VDC
	Read/Write	280 mA
	Idle	270 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	6.61 Watts
	Idle	6.24 Watts
	Standby	0.97 Watts
	Sleep	0.97 Watts

As used for storage capacity, one megabyte (MB) = one million bytes, one gigabyte (GB) = one billion bytes, and one terabyte (TB) = one trillion bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending on operating environment. As used for buffer or cache, one megabyte (MB) = 1,048,576 bytes. As used for transfer rate or interface, megabyte per second (MB/s) = one million bytes per second, megabit per second (Mb/s) = one million bits per second, and gigabit per second (Gb/s) = one billion bits per second.