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Western Digital Caviar WD1200

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A big 120GB PATA drive to satisfy your big space needs. We checked out the drive with the same specs as the WD Raptor.

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The drive gave decent results considering its cost. The Business Winstone and Content Creation Winstone results are quite decent at 70 and 112. The transfer rates of the disk started at 58,860 KBps and ended at 33,900 KBps, which is also very good. The drive performed much better than the 2MB cache buffer drive of Samsung, that comes around the same cost, but lagged a bit when compared to the other 8 MB cache buffer drives. The drives gives a transfer rate of 12,000 KBps in the Business disk Winmark and 40,600 KBps in the High-end Disk

Winmark.

  Disk

WinMark/HE
Disk Winmarks



Business 
BW CCW TransferRate Start TransferRate End Access



Time
Serial

ATA
Maxtor

DiamondMax Plus 9 200GB
49300 18400 86.4 117 55000 31600 13.5
Seagate

Baracuda 160 GB, Model No. ST3160023AS 12.9
  43000 18000 83.5 115 56900 32600
WD

360
46300 13300 78.2 114.3 57500 37500 8.71
Parallel

ATA
WD

1200
40600 12000 70.1 112.5 58800 33900 13.5
Maxtor

DiamondMax Plus 200GB ATA /133 HDD
50900 17200 82.9 113.6 57200 32700 13.4
Hitachi

Deskstar 185.2 GB Hard Disk
44400 16200 82.3 113.3 56500 30800 13

At around 6.75K plus taxes and a three-year warranty, it is a nice bargain for the SOHO user at Rs 56 per GB. 

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Price : Rs 6,700
Key

specs
: A well priced drive for the SOHO segment
Contact : Ajay Kapure
Tel : 25884538 
E-mail : Ajay.Kapure@wdc.com 

Geetaj Channana

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