Figure 1. WD Enterprise Drive (Top and Front View)
PRODUCT FEATURES
The WD Enterprise drive offers the following features:
• Advanced Caching — Including Read and Write
Caching, Pre-fetch, and Adaptive Caching
• Command Queuing — Supports both tagged and
untagged queuing; command reordering maximizes the
drive performance by minimizing latency and seek time.
• S.M.A.R.T. (Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting
Technology) — A hard drive firmware technology that
performs drive failure prediction by monitoring selected
parameters during normal drive operations.
• SCAM (SCSI Configure Automatically) Level 2
Compliant — Eases user configuration of SCSI ID's
and hot plugging on single and multiple drive systems.
Released 10/18/96