Western Digital 160GB AV HDD

Western Digital 160GB AV HDD

Sudeep Naik, Jul 19, 2007 1600 hrs IST

In case you're dreaming about streaming your life over the internet, here's something to consider.

1 million hours MTBF, SilkStream, IntelliSeek, Ramp Load, and Preemptive Wear Leveling (PWL) techologies, Good Read/Write speeds.

2 MB Buffer, Expensive.

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Apart from these environmental developments, the WD1600AVBS also features SilkStream, IntelliSeek, Ramp Load, and Preemptive Wear Leveling (PWL).

SilkStream is a WD proprietary technology that is optimized for smooth, contiguous digital video playback of up to 12 simultaneous HD streams (assuming Host Transfer Block size of 2 MB per stream). It's compatible with the ATA streaming command set allowing CE customers to use standard streaming management and error recovery options.

Intelliseek optimizes seek speeds to lower power consumption, noise, and vibration.

Ramp Load parks the recording heads off the disk surface during spin up, spin down, and when the drive is off. This ensures the recording head never touches the disk surface resulting in improved long term reliability due to less head wear, as well as improved non-operational shock tolerance.

Preemptive Wear Leveling (PWL) makes the drive arm sweep across the disk frequently, to reduce uneven wear on the drive surface, common to audio-video streaming applications.

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by paying little more, try to go for carzie harddrives, used in servers, and workstations.

by adi, pune, on Apr 04, 2008 07:29 PM, Report abuse   Reply

i totally agree that this drive might be good and offer goos read write speeds..but being practical..aa normal basic user ..why to spend more to get this one...when we can get it a lesser price..... but i think it shud have been 10,000 rpm...i mean if its expensive and it shud offer more good specifications,,,...

by tukli, Chandigarh, on Jul 20, 2007 09:43 PM, Report abuse   Reply

their 10K r.p.m drives are way overpriced and noisy too. You can put two cheaper and quieter 500GB HDDs in RAID and get both speed and capacity.

by dookie, Bangalore, on Jul 25, 2007 10:41 AM, Report abuse

I got the Seagate 250GB for 2650 Rs. Whatz so special about this WD ?

by Sameer, Bangalore, on Jul 20, 2007 10:58 AM, Report abuse   Reply

pl. let me know where to buy 250gb hdd at that price

by vijay bhaskar, nellore, on Jul 20, 2007 01:42 PM, Report abuse

Its available in Nehru place delhi at the cost of 2700 for 250GB HDD

by avi, del, on Jul 23, 2007 09:48 AM, Report abuse

DEAR SAMEER DID YOU BUY IT OR DID YOU DREAM OF IT!!!!!!!!!!!

by techvijji, Secunderabad, on Jul 20, 2007 01:46 PM, Report abuse   Reply

great offer .comment from sameer says 2650rs for a 250 GB IT ROCKS. BUT DID SAMEEER BUY IT REAL OR IN DREAMS!!!!!!!!!!

by techvijji, Secunderabad, on Jul 20, 2007 01:44 PM, Report abuse   Reply

PRICE..THE MOST IMPORTANT FEATURE ?

by GOPALAKRISHNA, MUMBAI -INDIA, on Jul 19, 2007 08:19 PM, Report abuse   Reply

Dude, did u read the entire article or just browsed thru the pictures ? Its for 3500

by Shake, Delhi, on Jul 19, 2007 10:39 PM, Report abuse

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