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Western Digital Caviar SATA
| Manufacturer |
Western Digital |
| Model |
Caviar |
| Interface |
SATA 150 |
| Nominal Capacity |
250 GB |
| Rotational
Speed |
7200 RPM |
| Cache Size |
8 MB |
| Price (inc.
VAT) |
£118.64 |
| Retailer |
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| Formatted
Capacity |
232 GB |
| Cost per
GB |
51p |
| PC Mark 2004
Score |
4142 |
| Average Seek
time |
10.27ms |
| Typical Running
Temperature |
56c |
The SATA Western Digital Caviar, like most drives, has a quoted operating
temperature range of 5 to 55 degrees. It is strange then, that when sat alone
on a flat desk in a cold room, that the drives temperature should rise to 56
degrees. If put in the worst case scenario of being stacked three deep in a
small unventilated case, this 250 GB drive would become dangerously hot. Performance
is sluggish, as is expected with this size drive, with a 10 ms seek time and
a PC Mark 2004 score of 4142. The SATA model is just as noisy as its Parallel
ATA counterpart. Value for money is only average, at 51 p per Gigabyte.
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