Western Digital Caviar SE 80 GB,Internal,7200 RPM,8.89 cm (3.5") (WD800JD) Hard Drive

Western Digital really needs no introduction as they are one of the largest and most highly respected names in the industry. They may be best known for their 10,000RPM Raptor line of hard drives, but if you take a look around at any enthusiast forum you will see many, many peoples' rigs sporting at least one of their other products. In what can only be called a stroke of genius, WD has separated their 3.5” SATA drives into three separate and distinct categories. The “green” line is their low power, earth friendly line where low noise and low heat trumps shear speed (though from all reports they don’t lag that far behind in this category either). The “Blue” line is their middle of the road line where noise and heat output are a concern but it is more in balance with performance (this is WD original line before the switch); and then you have the “Black” editions. These drives are all about performance and power, even if that means increased noise, heat output and energy consumption.

As SATA drives go, its pretty basic, reliable and does the job. Its reasonably small capacity makes it ideal for use as a system drive working in tandem in a system with a seperate physical hard drive used to store data.

Western Digital Caviar SE WD800JD is a 80gb sata 2 hard disk with 8mb cache.
it runs quietly gets a score of 57 on my windows experiance (windows 7 x64)

my system:

Athlon x3 425 @ 2.7
Asus M4N68T motherboard ... << rubbish
2gb ddr3
ati hd 4550


so overall i would say its a good drive.

nice and quiet and as fast as any other standard sata drive ive used. 80gb is very small by todays standards but is perfect for my second desktop which is only used for the internet and a bit of casual gaming.

Quick little Hard Drive for a little cheap expansion for your desktop. Always check its been formatted tho! As mine came with data on it!