Western Digital Corp. WD153BARTL hard drive specifications
WD Caviar WD153BA - hard drive - 15.3 GB - ATA-66
The latest generation of Western Digital's award-winning WD Caviar Enhanced IDE (EIDE) hard drive family features new firmware innovations to achieve 60 GB per platter. Spinning up to 7200 RPM and offering capacities as large as 200 GB, the latest WD Caviar hard drives combine the high performance and increased areal density required by today's capacity-hungry users. Data Lifeguard is an expanded set of data protection tools that includes shock protection, an environmental protection system, and embedded error detection and repair features that automatically find, isolate, and repair problem areas that may develop over the extended use of the hard drive. With these enhanced data reliability features, the drive can perform more accurate monitoring and error repair and deliver exceptional data security. Data Lifeguard Tools is a set of software utilities that work in conjunction with the embedded Data Lifeguard features to make hard drive installation, drive management diagnostics, and repair simple and worry-free. Shock Guard provides outstanding improvements in shock and vibration protection for the newest WD Caviar drives. Shock Guard allows instantaneous data protection at high shock values to achieve leading shock specifications.
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