Western Digital 250GB EIDE Internal Hard Drive with 8MB Cache Review

The 7200rpm 8mb cache Western Digital JB line of hard drives are the best that money can buy.Though they run at ATA100 and not ATA133 like the Maxtor Diamondmax Plus series, the benchmarks for the Western Digitals are quite impressive in read time and transfer rate.Many of its competitors use a smaller 2mb cache (the buffer between your drive controller and the physical drive heads), WD's 8mb cache makes a big difference which can be proven by just comparing the 2mb version from the same manufacturer.
Reliability is a factor that is very crucial when hard drives are concerned.Even if you have a 3 or a 5 year warranty on your drive, if it fails generally all data is lost and it must be sent back to be replaced.In that unfortunate situation you are without the use of your computer for as much as 2 to 3 weeks waiting on an RMA.In the industry I work, we use many flavors of drives from 15k rpm U320 SCSI drives to all sizes of IDE.I have in depth experience with every brand available on the market.We have hundereds of each unit from Maxtor, Western Digital, Seagate, Fujitsu, etc, and the best competitor on this market to Western Digital is the Maxtor Diamondmax Plus.We unfortunately have seen a very high failure rate among the DiamondMax Line, upwards of 10%.I have 3 large 2 terrabyte arrays built with these Western Digitals that come under heavy strain (approximately 16 hours a day of maximum reading and writing), I have only seen one failure that was fixed with firmware update.Firmware being an update pushed out to the drive to fix on board controller issues.
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Western Digital hard drives with 8MB cache are designed to maximize desktop computer performance for activities requiring high-performance storage such as computer gaming, digital video editing, and file server applications.If you are a digital camera or MP3 enthusiast, this drive can deliver the storage capacity and performance you need to organize and preserve your digital life.

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