Specifications: 2 GB IDE Western Digital Caviar AC22000

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The following infomration was pulled directl from Western Digital's website at <http://www.wdc.com/products/drives/drive-specs/>.
Western Digital is an innovative leader in the hard drive field that provides exceptional performance, quality, and unsurpassed reliability in its WD Caviar hard drives. The WD Caviar 3.5-inch hard drives provide the performance, quality, and reliability required by today's storage-intensive desktop, workstation, multimedia, and internet applications.  

S.M.A.R.T. (Self Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology), CacheFlow5, Reed Solomon 17-bit on-the-fly ECC, advanced defect management, guaranteed compatibility, universal translation, increased reliability, and advanced power management are but a few of the features that underscore the exceptional design of WD Caviar hard drives.

MODEL                              AC22000

Formatted Capacity (MB)            2000.3
Interface                          IDE/EIDE
Average Seek Time (ms)             11
Rotational Speed (rpm)             5200
Buffer Size (KB)                   256
Host (MB/s)
- Transfer Rate                    16.6 (Mode 4 PIO)
                                  16.6 (Mode 2 DMA)
Shock (non-operating)              150G


Setup Parameters
Cylinders                          3876
Heads                              16
Sectors                            63
   
Typical Power
- Dissipation (read/write)         5.1W


MTBF (hours)                       350,000
Dimensions
- Height                           1.0 inch (25.4 mm)
- Length                           5.75 Inches (146.05 mm)
- Width                            4.0 inches (101.6 mm)
- Weight                           1.1 pound (.5 kg)



Machines Affected:  PowerBase
Published Date: Feb 20, 2012