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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Test Bench

Processor: AMD Athlon 6000+

Motherboard: Asus M2N SLi Deluxe
Memory: Kingston Hyper X DDR2 750MHz (743MHz, 4-4-4-12)

HDD: 1. Western Digital Caviar SE 250 GB HDD SATA and
2. Western Digital WD1600AVBS 160 GB HDD SATA
Case: ATX Cabinet with Vantec Ion 2 460W PSU

Monitor: Philips 109E5 Monitor (19-inch, Max Res. 1920 x 1440)

Operating System: Windows XP Professional SP2

Performance

We used HD Tach to test the low-level performance, which would give us a clear-cut picture of the core ability of the drive. To test the file system and desktop performance, we used SiSoft Sandra's File System Benchmarking module.

HD Tach 2.7



HD Tach 3.0 Quick Bench (8MB Zones)



HD Tach 3.0 Long Bench (32MB Zones)



SiSoft Sandra: File Systems Benchmark



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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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