Specifications
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Feature Description
Physical Specifications
Formatted Capacity* 80,026 MB
Interface 40-pin EIDE
Actuator Type Rotary Voice Coil
Bytes per Sector 512
User Sectors per Drive 156,301,488
Servo Type Embedded
ECC Reed Solomon
Head Park** Automatic
Performance Specifications
Track to Track Seek 2.0 ms
Full Stroke Seek (Read) 21 ms
Average Latency 4.2 ms
Rotational Speed 7,200 RPM
Transfer Rate (Buffer to Host) 100 MBps (Mode 5 Ultra ATA)
66.6 MBps (Mode 4 Ultra ATA)
33.3 MBps (Mode 2 Ultra ATA)
16.6 MBps (Mode 4 PIO)
16.6 MBps (Mode 2 multi-word DMA)
Buffer Size 2 MB
Contact Start/Stop Cycles (CSS) 50,000 minimum
Physical Dimensions
Height 1.028 in. (25.4 mm) maximum
Length 5.787 in. (147.0 mm) maximum
Width 4.0 in. (101.6 mm) ±0.01 in.
Weight 0.95 lb. (0.43 kg) ±10%

* Western Digital defines a megabyte (MB) as 1,000,000 bytes and a gigabyte (GB) as 1,000,000,000 bytes.

** Turning the computer power off causes the Western Digital Caviar® to perform an automatic head park operation.