Introduction; Product Description - Western Digital WD Series Installation Manual

INTRODUCTION

Please review this installation guide before you install your
WD Enterprise hard drive. If you require assistance,
contact our technical support staff at 1-888-WDC-SCSI.

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

WD Enterprise™ hard drives are 3.5-inch, high-
performance SCSI drives designed for use in workstation,
server, multi-user, array, and audio/video applications.
They feature outstanding performance, capacity, and
reliability.
These drives feature formatted capacities of 2.1 GB and
4.3 GB. They are compliant with SCSI-3 SPI, support
Ultra Fast (50-pin) and Ultra Fast Wide (68-pin) host data
transfer rates up to 40 MB/s, and offer an SCA-2 (80-pin)
interface. The WD Enterprise drives offer an average read
seek time of 8 ms and a media transfer rate of up to 140
Mbits/s.
There are currently two models available in the
WD Enterprise series: the WDE4360 and WDE2170.
The "WDE" prefix represents the Western Digital
Enterprise group of products and the four numeric digits
denote the drive's capacity in megabytes. The model
number listed on the product label may include additional
customer-specific information.
Released 10/18/96