Western Digital Caviar WD1601ABYS Specifications

WD RE2
Enterprise Hard Drives
1.2 Million Hours MTBF

High Capacity

24 x 7 Reliability
Interface
SATA
Width/Height
3.5-inch/1-inch
Rotational Speed
7200 RPM
Capacities
160 to 750 GB
Model Numbers
WD1601ABYS
WD2502ABYS
WD3201ABYS
WD4000ABYS
WD4001ABYS
WD5000ABYS
WD5001ABYS
WD7500AYYS
Note: Not all products
may be available in all
regions of the world.
WD RE2 hard drives are the world's most reliable server-class SATA drives in
the market. With 1.2 million hours MTBF, 5-year limited warranty, 3 Gb/s
SATA technology, and best-in-class vibration tolerance, WD RE2 drives offer
the best combination of superior reliability, high capacity, and optimum
performance for enterprise applications.
Product Benefits
Superior reliability - Designed and manufactured to server-class standards to provide
best-in-class enterprise reliability in high duty cycle environments. With 1.2 million hours
MTBF, these drives have the highest available reliability rating on a high-capacity drive.
High capacity - Up to 750 GB of storage packed with server-class features and low
cost-per-gigabyte value.
Fast - With a next-generation SATA interface, 3 Gb/s data transfer rate, Native Command
Queuing (NCQ), and 16 MB cache, these drives deliver optimum performance.
Low power - Active Power Save
through an advanced WD firmware which conserves power in active seek modes without
degrading performance.
RAID-specific, Time-Limited Error Recovery (TLER) - A feature pioneered by WD,
significantly reduces drive fallout caused by the extended hard drive error-recovery processes
common to desktop drives.
Rotary Acceleration Feed Forward (RAFF
by optimizing operation and performance when the drives are used in vibration-prone,
multidrive systems such as rack-mounted servers or network storage.
5-year limited warranty
Applications
Servers, network attached storage, scientific computing, life sciences, video surveillance,
enterprise backup, software build systems, document and image management, audio/video
media applications, other demanding write-intensive applications.
The WD Promise
WD understands the importance of the information you save to your hard
drive and we are committed to protecting that data with exceptionally reliable
products, advanced data protection technology, and superior customer support.
No one does more to safeguard your data than WD.
delivers best-in-class seek mode power consumption
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