Warm!! Western Digital 320GB 8MB 7200 RPM WD3200JB $205 shipped 2nd Day Air @zipzoomfly

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WD3200JB

$205 shipped

Specs

General:
Rotational Speed: 7,200 RPM (nominal)
Buffer Size: 8 MB
Average Latency: 4.20 ms (nominal)
Contact Start/Stop Cycles: 50,000 minimum

Seek Times (Average):
Read Seek Time (Average): 8.9 ms
Write Seek Time (Average): 10.9 ms (average)
Track-To-Track Seek Time: 2.0 ms (average)
Full Stroke Seek: 21.0 ms (average)

Transfer Rates:
Buffer To Host (Serial ATA): 150 Mbits/s (Max)
Buffer To Disk: 748 Mbits/s (Max)

Configuration General:
Formatted Capacity: 320,072 MB
Capacity: 320 GB
Interface: EIDE
Actuator Type: Rotary Voice Coil
Number of Platters: 3
Bytes Per Sector: 512
User Sectors Per Drive: 625,142,448
Servo Type: Embedded

Dimensions English:
Height (English): 1.028 Inches (Max)
Length (English): 5.787 Inches (Max)
Width (English): 4.00 Inches (+/- 0.010 inch)
Weight (English): 1.32 Pounds (+/- .10 lb)

Metric:
Height (Metric): 26.1 mm (Max)
Length (Metric): 147 mm (Max)
Width (Metric): 101.6 mm
Weight (Metric): 0.6 kg (+/- .082 kg)

Enviromental 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)

Temperature (English):
Operating (English): 41° F to 131° F
Non-operating (English): -40° F to 149° F

Temperature (Metric):
Operating (Metric): 5° C to 55° C
Non-operating (Metric): -40° C to 65° C

Humidity:
Operating: 5-95% RH non-condensing
Non-operating: 5-95% RH non-condensing

Altitude (English):
Operating (English): -1,000 feet to 10,000 feet
Non-operating (English): -1,000 feet to 40,000 feet

Altitude (Metric):
Operating (Metric): -305M to 3,050M
Non-operating (Metric): -305M to 12,200M

Vibration:
Operating:
Linear: 20-300 Hz, 0.75G (0 to peak)
Random: 10-300 Hz, 0.004 g2/Hz
Non-operating:
Low Frequency: 5-20 Hz, 0.195 inches (double amplitude)
High Frequency: 20-500 Hz, 4.0G (0 to peak)

Electrical Current Requirements:
12 VDC:
Read/Write: 530 mA
Idle: 510 mA
Standby: 30 mA
Sleep: 30 mA

5 VDC:
Read/Write: 450 mA
Idle: 400 mA
Standby:150 mA
Sleep: 120 mA

Power Dissipation:
Read/Write: 8.600 Watts
Idle: 8.100 Watts
Standby: 1.100 Watts
Sleep: 1.000 Watts

 

[arswihart]

anyone get this yet?

 

[WilliamWallace]

I don't know anyone that has one but after reading Tom's Hardware Guide's review I think it looks pretty good. Only available in EIDE for now but they say a SATA version should be around soon.

I should say that it looks like a good drive. I haven't been following prices on it.

 

[Reiniku]

the sata version will be worth giving a look as good competition for the 300gb maxtor and seagates (more maxtor in terms of performance)

 

[RVN]

WD was the first to come out with the 8 MB buffer ...who'da thought they wouldn't have been the first with the 16 MB buffer ...

I upgraded from their 250 GBs to the Maxtor 300 GBs with the 16 MB buffer, because WD was taking too long to break the 250 GB barrier. It seemed like a long time to get over the 250 GB mark ...I've been tempted by the Seagate 400s, but not the price.

Seems okay, like you said "warm", but not a great deal!

 

[tmchow]

I cashed in on a hot deal on a Seagate 400GB PATA awhile back ($200) for my HTPC and have been waiting forever for another deal like that to come on again so I can get 800GB (or more, like 1.2TB ), but nothing is happening with Seagate drives right now. There was a warm deal on a 300GB PATA i posted, but I really would like to get a SATA drive since the cable management is far superior (ie. better airflow in my HTPC).

I was going to ask how loud these drives were, but in reading the Tom's Hardware review of it (link posted by WilliamWallace above), it says:

The WD3200JB was almost inaudible during operation, and only made itself heard under very heavy loads. However, the sound level can be reduced even further by switching to a less aggressive access mode.

Hardly a scientific measure, nor does he make any comparison to the current king of quiet, the seagate. I wish these HD reviews would include more indepth measure of how noisy a drive is.

Can't wait for more 300GB or larger SATA drives to come out at a $0.50/GB price point

 

[WilliamWallace]

I wish these HD reviews would include more indepth measure of how noisy a drive is.

I feel the exact same way. Looks like We'll have to wait for the Anandtech review. They're pretty good about giving quantitave measures of noise as they did in this roundup last summer. I think they're busy with the Pentium 4 6xx series analysis right now though. They were noticeably absent from the list of sites that had articles on the new chips today.

 

[thunderroller]

is't 8m less for 320gb

 

[fleshconsumed]

Would have been hot if this was SATA...

 

[bigpow]

Warm (at least)

I want it in SATA form, for $150, 3-4 months from now

 

[arswihart]

thats wishful thinking bigpow, but I like it

May I ask why you are all so damned set on having this drive in SATA? I don't think you will see any difference in performance. Or do you basically not want to buy anything IDE since someday in the future, IDE headers may not be present on mobos anymore?

Personally, I'd prefer SATA too, if price and performance are equal, but I'd have to buy a new video card as well since my video card is blocking my SATA ports on my epox 9nda3+. Waiting for AGP x800xl's to become mainstream unfortunately won't happen overnight, then again, probably neither will the SATA version of this drive!

BTW, the drive is now $203 at ZZF

 

[fleshconsumed]

May I ask why you are all so damned set on having this drive in SATA?

One, because there are too few good IDE RAID controllers or they are way too expensive. Two, cable management with 3+ hard drives is a major PITA.

 

[PhoenixOrion]

Warm.
Considering it's dense to have a 300+ gigs into 3 platters instead of 5 to 6 platters like other manufacturers for the same about of space.