Western Digital 160GB 7200RPM IDE 3.5" Desktop Hard Drive

The PATA interface makes WD Caviar Blue drives an excellent solution for expanding capacity for photos and files or to enable capacity-intensive programs on older legacy systems. These hard drives deliver solid performance and reliability. Check your system specifications to ensure you have a PATA connection. All computers sold today have SATA connections, but older computers may have PATA connections.

Why you should choose WD Caviar Blue:

A wide array of capacities, cache sizes, and interfaces means there's a WD Caviar Blue hard drive that's just right for you. And because it's from WD, you'll have the confidence in knowing you've selected a drive that's truly world-class.

Ideal for:

• Family and business computing
• Adding storage in desktop PCs or external drives
• Adding extra storage space for photos, videos and music

Features:

PATA 100 MB/s interface - Enhanced integrated drive electronics (EIDE), also called Parallel ATA (PATA), hard drives were the standard in the computer industry for more than 10 years. PATA drives are the perfect way to add storage to older legacy systems.

Cool operation - WD continues to develop new and innovative ways to keep drives cool while they are operating which helps protect the drive and the data stored on it.

Compatible - We perform tests on hundreds of systems and a multitude of platforms in our FIT Lab to give our customers confidence that our drives will work in their systems.

NoTouch ramp load technology - The recording head never touches the disk media ensuring significantly less wear to the recording head and media as well as better drive protection in transit.

Desktop / Consumer RAID environments - WD Caviar Blue Hard Drives are tested and recommended for use in consumer-type RAID applications. (RAID-0 / RAID-1)