Western Digital Caviar 160GB 7200RPM Hard Drive  
 
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Average Seek Time  4.2 ms 
Data Buffer  8 MB 
Included In Box  Manual 
Interface  40-PIN EIDE 
Internal or External  Internal 
Rotations Per Minute (RPM)  7200 RPM 
Storage Capacity  160GB 
System Requirements  Data Lifeguard Tools 
Warranty  1 Year Limited 
 
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The Special Edition hard drive provides a higher percentage of cache hits and significantly faster time to data than industry standard 2MB versions. Within the complex operations of hard drives, the buffer is used to hold the results of recent reads from the disk and also to "pre-fetch" information that is likely to be requested in the near future. The use of an increased buffer improves the performance by reducing the number of physical accesses to the disk and allowing data to stream from the disk uninterrupted by mechanical operations.
IMPORTANT: Use Data Lifeguard Tools 10.0 or later installation software to access the full capacity of your hard drive. Hard drives larger than 137GB require a controller card to utilize full drive capacity.