Quiet Hard Drives
Western Digital Caviar SE 160GB Quiet Hard Drive
Western Digital Caviar 320GB Quiet Hard Drive
Western Digital Caviar 640GB Quiet Hard Drive
Western Digital Caviar 1TB Quiet Hard Drive
Western Digital Scorpio 160GB Quiet Hard Drive
Mtron Pro 7000 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB Completely Silent SSD Drives
Western Digital Caviar SE 160GB Quiet Hard Drive
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Featuring the latest technology to create the quietest hard drives available. Performance and reliability with advanced acoustics for cool operation. |
Features
Cool Operating Temperature – WD hard drives are designed to have the lowest power consumption of any high-capacity, desktop-class hard drive which lowers the operating temperature for enhanced drive reliability.
Whisper Quiet – These highly reliable silent hard drives deliver technologically advanced acoustics. With its WhisperDrive™ and SoftSeek™ technologies, WD has minimized noise to levels virtually imperceptible to the human ear in home and business environments.
Ideal for use in the fastest PCs on the market, including high-performance business computers, multimedia, and gaming systems
| Technical Specifications | |||
| Write Speed | DVD-R | 20X max. | |
| DVD-RW | 6X max. | ||
| DVD+R | 20X max. | ||
| DVD+RW | 8X max. | ||
| DVD+R (DL) | 8X max. | ||
| DVD-R (DL) | 8X max. | ||
| CD-R | 48X max. | ||
| CD-RW | 32X max. | ||
| DVD-RAM | 14X max. | ||
| Read Speed | DVD-R (DL) | 8X max. | |
| DVD+R (DL) | 8X max. | ||
| DVD-ROM (Single) | 16X max. | ||
| DVD-ROM (Dual) | 8X max. | ||
| DVD-RAM | 12X max. | ||
| CD-ROM | 48X max. | ||
| CD-RW | 40X max. | ||
| CD-R | 40X max. | Access Time | DVD | 140 MS | CD | 150 MS |
| Writing Mode | DVD-R & DVD-R (DL) | DOA (Disc-At-Once)/Incremental Recording (Multi-Border Recording) | |
| DVD-RW & DVD-RW (DL) | DAO/Restricted Overwriting/Incremental Recording | ||
| DVD+R & DVD+R (DL) | Sequential Recording (Mutli-Session Recording) | ||
| DVD+RW & DVD+RW (DL) | Random Recording | ||
| CD-R/RW | DAO/TAO (Track-At-Once)/SAO (Session-At-Once)/Packet Recording (Multi-Session Recording) | ||
| O/S Compatibility | Windows 2000 | ||
| Windows NT | |||
| XP | |||
| Vista | |||
| Interface | SATA | ||
| Data Buffer | 2 mb | ||
| Bundle Software | Latest Burning Software|||
| Disc Formats | Write | DVD+/-RW, DVD+/-R, CD-R, CD-RW | |
| Read | DVD-ROM, DVD+/-RW, DVD+/-R, Photo CD, Video CD, CD-DA, CD-Extra, CD-Text, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-RAM | ||
| Disc Diameters | 12cm/8cm | ||
| MTBF | 60,000 Power On Hours | ||
| Operating Duty Cycle (Read) 20% POH | |||
| Operating Duty Cycle (Write) 2% POH | |||
| MTTR | 30 Minutes | ||
| Mounting Orientation | Verticle and Horizontal (5° ~ -5°) | ||
| Dimensions (W x H x D) | 148 x 42.3 x 172.4mm | ||
| Weight | 690g | ||
| Power Requirements | DC+5V ± 5%, DC+12V ± 10% | ||
| Temperature | Operating | 5° to 45°C | |
| Storage | -20° to 60°C | ||
| Humidity | Operating | 5% ~ 85% (Non-Condensing) | |
| Storage | 5% ~ 90% (Non-Condensing) | ||
| Vibration | Operating | 0.2 G Peak (at 10~500Hz) | |
| Storage | 1.5 G Peak (at 10~500Hz) | ||
Western Digital Caviar SE 320GB Quiet Hard Drive
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Featuring the latest technology to create the quietest hard drives available. Performance and reliability with advanced acoustics for cool operation. |
Features
Cool Operating Temperature – WD hard drives are designed to have the lowest power consumption of any high-capacity, desktop-class hard drive which lowers the operating temperature for enhanced drive reliability.
Whisper Quiet – These highly reliable silent hard drives deliver technologically advanced acoustics. With its WhisperDrive™ and SoftSeek™ technologies, WD has minimized noise to levels virtually imperceptible to the human ear in home and business environments.
Ideal for use in the fastest PCs on the market, including high-performance business computers, multimedia, and gaming systems
| General Specifications | |||
| Performance Specifications | Rotational Speed | 7,00RPM (nominal) | |
| Buffer Size | 16MB | ||
| Average Latency | 4.20ms (nominal) | ||
| Contact Start/Stop Cycles | 50,000 (minimum) | ||
| Seek Times | Read Seek Time | 8.9ms | |
| Track-to-Track Seek Time | 2.0ms (average) | Full Stroke Seek | 21.0ms (average) |
| Transfer Rates | Buffer to Host (Serial ATA) | 300 MB/s (max) | |
| Buffer to Disk | 748 Mbits/s (max) | ||
| Physical Specifications | Formatted Capacity | 320,072MB | |
| Capacity | 320GB | ||
| Interface | SATA 300 MB/s | ||
| User Sectors Per Drive | 652,142,448 | ||
| Physical Dimensions | Height | 1.028′ or 26.1mm (max) | |
| Length | 5.787″ or 147mm (max) | ||
| Width | 4.00″ (± 0.010″) or 101.6mm | ||
| Weight | 1.32lbs or 0.6kg | ||
| Environmental Specifications | |||
| Shock | Operating Shock (Read) | 65G, 2 ms | |
| Non-Operating Shock | 250G, 2 ms | ||
| Acoustics | Idle Mode | 28 dBA (average) | |
| Seek Mode 0 | 33 dBA (average) | ||
| Seek Mode 3 | 29 dBA (average) | ||
| Temerature | Operating | 41°F – 131°F or 5°C – 55°C | |
| Non-Operating | -40°F – 149°F or -40°C – 65°C | ||
| Humidity | Operating | 5-95% RH non-condensing | |
| Non-Operating | 5-95% RH non-condensing | ||
| Altitude | Operating | -1,000ft to 10,000ft or -305m to 3,050m | |
| Non-Operating | -1,000ft to 40,000ft or -305m to 12,200m | ||
| Vibration | |||
| Operating | Linear | 20-300Hz .75G (0 to peak) | |
| Random | 10-300Hz 0.004 g2/Hz | ||
| Low Frequency | 5-20Hz 0.195″ (double amplitude) | ||
| High Frequency | 20-500Hz 4.0G (0 to peak) | ||
| Electrical Specifications | |||
| Current Requirements | |||
| 12VDC | Read/Write | 450 mA | |
| Idle | 430 mA | ||
| Standby | 20 mA | ||
| Sleep | 20 mA | ||
| 5 VDC | Read/Write | 800 mA | |
| Idle | 730 mA | ||
| Standby | 270 mA | ||
| Sleep | 250 mA | ||
| Power Dissipation | |||
| Read/Write | 9.50 Watts | ||
| Idle | 8.75 Watts | ||
| Standby | 1.60 Watts | ||
| Sleep | 1.50 Watts | ||
Western Digital Caviar SE 640GB Quiet Hard Drive
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Featuring the latest technology to create the quietest hard drives available. Performance and reliability with advanced acoustics for cool operation. |
Features
Cool Operating Temperature – WD hard drives are designed to have the lowest power consumption of any high-capacity, desktop-class hard drive which lowers the operating temperature for enhanced drive reliability.
Whisper Quiet – These highly reliable silent hard drives deliver technologically advanced acoustics. With its WhisperDrive™ and SoftSeek™ technologies, WD has minimized noise to levels virtually imperceptible to the human ear in home and business environments.
Ideal for use in the fastest PCs on the market, including high-performance business computers, multimedia, and gaming systems
| General Specifications | |||
| Performance Specifications | Rotational Speed | 7,00RPM (nominal) | |
| Buffer Size | 16MB | ||
| Average Latency | 4.20ms (nominal) | ||
| Contact Start/Stop Cycles | 50,000 (minimum) | ||
| Seek Times | Read Seek Time | 8.9ms | |
| Write Seek Time | 10.9ms (average) | ||
| Track-to-Track Seek Time | 2.0ms (average) | Full Stroke Seek | 21.0ms (average) |
| Transfer Rates | Buffer to Host (Serial ATA) | 300 MB/s (max) | |
| Buffer to Disk | 972 Mbits/s (max) | ||
| Physical Specifications | Formatted Capacity | 640,135MB | |
| Capacity | 340GB | ||
| Interface | SATA 300 MB/s | ||
| User Sectors Per Drive | 1,250,263,728 | ||
| Physical Dimensions | Height | 1.028′ or 26.1mm (max) | |
| Length | 5.787″ or 147mm (max) | ||
| Width | 4.00″ (± 0.010″) or 101.6mm | ||
| Weight | 1.39lbs or 0.63kg | ||
| Environmental Specifications | |||
| Shock | Operating Shock (Read) | 30G, 2 ms | |
| Non-Operating Shock | 300G, 2 ms | ||
| Acoustics | Idle Mode | 25 dBA (average) | |
| Seek Mode 0 | 29 dBA (average) | ||
| Seek Mode 3 | 26 dBA (average) | ||
| Temerature | Operating | 41°F – 131°F or 5°C – 55°C | |
| Non-Operating | -40°F – 149°F or -40°C – 65°C | ||
| Humidity | Operating | 5-95% RH non-condensing | |
| Non-Operating | 5-95% RH non-condensing | ||
| Altitude | Operating | -1,000ft to 10,000ft or -305m to 3,050m | |
| Non-Operating | -1,000ft to 40,000ft or -305m to 12,200m | ||
| Vibration | |||
| Operating | Linear | 20-300Hz .75G (0 to peak) | |
| Random | 10-300Hz 0.004 g2/Hz | ||
| Low Frequency | 5-20Hz 0.195″ (double amplitude) | ||
| High Frequency | 20-500Hz 4.0G (0 to peak) | ||
| Electrical Specifications | |||
| Current Requirements | |||
| 12VDC | Read/Write | 410 mA | |
| Idle | 390 mA | ||
| Standby | 6 mA | ||
| Sleep | 6 mA | ||
| 5 VDC | Read/Write | 675 mA | |
| Idle | 600 mA | ||
| Standby | 180 mA | ||
| Sleep | 180 mA | ||
| Power Dissipation | |||
| Read/Write | 8.3 Watts | ||
| Idle | 7.7 Watts | ||
| Standby | 1.00 Watts | ||
| Sleep | 1.00 Watts | ||
Western Digital Caviar GP 1TB Quiet Hard Drive
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Featuring the latest technology to create the quietest hard drives available. Performance and reliability with advanced acoustics for cool operation. |
Features
Cool Operating Temperature – WD hard drives are designed to have the lowest power consumption of any high-capacity, desktop-class hard drive which lowers the operating temperature for enhanced drive reliability.
Whisper Quiet – These highly reliable silent hard drives deliver technologically advanced acoustics. With its WhisperDrive™ and SoftSeek™ technologies, WD has minimized noise to levels virtually imperceptible to the human ear in home and business environments.
Ideal for use environmentally conscious PCs requiring lower power consumption and cool, quiet opertion
| General Specifications | |||
| Performance Specifications | Rotational Speed | IntelliPower | |
| Buffer Size | 16MB | ||
| Contact Start/Stop Cycles | 50,000 (minimum) | ||
| Seek Times | Read Seek Time | 8.9ms | |
| Transfer Rates | Buffer to Host (Serial ATA) | 300 MB/s (max) | |
| Buffer to Disk | 1,156 Mbits/s (max) | ||
| Physical Specifications | Formatted Capacity | 1,000,204MB | |
| Capacity | 1TB | ||
| Interface | SATA 300 MB/s | ||
| User Sectors Per Drive | 1,953,525,168 | ||
| Physical Dimensions | Height | 1.028′ or 26.1mm (max) | |
| Length | 5.787″ or 147mm (max) | ||
| Width | 4.00″ (± 0.010″) or 101.6mm | ||
| Weight | 1.61lbs or 0.73kg | ||
| Environmental Specifications | |||
| Shock | Operating Shock (Read) | 65G, 2 ms | |
| Non-Operating Shock | 250G, 2 ms | ||
| Acoustics | Idle Mode | 25 dBA (average) | |
| Seek Mode 0 | 27 dBA (average) | ||
| Seek Mode 3 | 25 dBA (average) | ||
| Vibration | |||
| Operating | Linear | 20-300Hz .75G (0 to peak) | |
| Random | 10-300Hz 0.008 g2/Hz | ||
| Low Frequency | 5-20Hz 0.195″ (double amplitude) | ||
| High Frequency | 20-500Hz 4.0G (0 to peak) | ||
| Electrical Specifications | |||
| Current Requirements | |||
| Power Dissipation | |||
| Read/Write | 7.50 Watts | ||
| Idle | 4.0 Watts | ||
| Standby | 0.30 Watts | ||
| Sleep | 0.30 Watts | ||
Western Digital Scorpio 160GB Quiet Hard Drive
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Featuring the latest technology to create the quietest hard drives available. Performance and reliability with advanced acoustics for cool operation. |
Features
RAID-Specific, Time-Limited Error Recovery (TLER) – A feature unique to WD, prevents drive fallout caused by the extended hard drive error-recovery processes common to desktop drives.
Rotary Acceleration Feed Forward (RAFF™) – Optimizes operation and performance when the drives are used in vibration-prone, multidrive systems such as rack-mounted servers or network storage.
Ideal for use in digital media computers, portable digital devices of all kinds, including notebook computers, and external storage.
| General Specifications | |||
| Performance Specifications | Rotational Speed | 5,400RPM (nominal) | |
| Buffer Size | 8MB | ||
| Average Latency | 5.50ms (nominal) | ||
| Seek Times | Read Seek Time | 12.0ms | |
| Write Seek Time | 2.0ms (average) | ||
| Transfer Rates | Buffer to Host (Serial ATA) | 150 MB/s (max) | |
| Buffer to Disk | 600 Mbits/s (sustained) | ||
| Physical Specifications | Formatted Capacity | 160,041MB | |
| Capacity | 160GB | ||
| Physical Dimensions | Height | 0.374″ (± 0.008″) or 9.5mm (± 0.20mm) | |
| Length | 3.94″ (± 0.010″) or 100mm (± 0.25mm) | ||
| Width | 2.75″ (± 0.010″) or 69.85mm (± 0.25mm) | ||
| Weight | 0.26lbs or 0.117kg | ||
| Environmental Specifications | |||
| Acoustics | Idle Mode | 24 dBA (average) | |
| Seek Mode | 26 dBA (average) | ||
| Temerature | Operating | 41°F – 131°F or 5°C – 55°C | |
| Non-Operating | -40°F – 149°F or -40°C – 65°C | ||
| Humidity | Operating | 8-90% RH non-condensing | |
| Non-Operating | 5-95% RH non-condensing | ||
| Altitude | Operating | -1,000ft to 10,000ft or -305m to 3,050m | |
| Non-Operating | -1,000ft to 40,000ft or -305m to 12,200m | ||
| Vibration | |||
| Operating | Linear | 10-500Hz 1.0G (0 to peak) | |
| Random | 10-500Hz 0.309 g2/Hz | ||
| Electrical Specifications | |||
| Current Requirements | |||
| 5VDC | Read/Write | 500 mA | |
| Idle | 400 mA | ||
| Standby | 50 mA | ||
| Sleep | 20 mA | ||
| Power Dissipation | |||
| Read/Write | 2.50 Watts | ||
| Idle | 0.85 Watts | ||
| Standby | 0.25 Watts | ||
| Sleep | 0.10 Watts | ||
Mtron Pro 7000 16GB, 32GB, & 64GB Completely Silent SSD Drives
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Solid State Drive with no moving parts for the ultimate in silence |
Features
Near Zero Failure – Compared to the average 8.6% HDD failure rate; reduce additional material and labor costs as well as down time.
High Performance – High random read rates as compared to a normal hard drive to keeping uptime high with huge data flows.
Ideal for use in servers or computers needing lightening-fast access.
| General Specifications | |||
| Host Interface | Interface | SATA 1.0a standard | |
| Transfer Mode | PIO mode (0~4), DMA mode (0~2), Ultra DMA mode (0~6) | ||
| Capacity (GB) | 16, 32, 64(GB) | ||
| Form Factor | 3.5″ | ||
| Performance | Average Access Time* | 0.1 msec | |
| Sustained Read** | 120 MB/sec | ||
| Sustained Write** | 90 MB/sec | ||
| IOPS*** (Sequential/Random) | 81,000/18,000 | ||
| Power | Input Voltage | 8VCC ± 5% | |
| Endurance | Write Endurance | >140 years @ 50GB write per day**** | |
| Read Endurance | Unlimited | ||
| Wear-Leveling Algorithm | Dynamic and Static wear-leveling | ||
| Data Retention | 10 Years at 25°C | ||
| Reliability | MTBF | 1,000,000 hours | |
| ECC | 7-bit Error Correction Code (ECC) | ||
| Bad Block Management Algorithm | |||
| Environment | Operating Temperature | 0~70°C | |
| Test Environment | * HD Tach 3.0.1 | ||
| **ATTO Disk Benchmark 2.02 | |||
| ***IOMeter July 30, 2004 | |||
| ****Sequential Write, 32GB Mtron SSD | |||