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Product Specifications - Page 1

... drives cool while they are built to 1TB Note: Not all WD Caviar Blue drives are operating. INTERFACES SATA 3 Gb/s and PATA MODEL NUMBERS WD10EALS WD6400AAKS WD5000AAKS WD5000AAKB ... Features Cache WD Caviar Blue is used throughout this family of drives. WD Caviar® Blue™ Desktop Hard Drives With SATA and PATA interfaces, and cache sizes ranging from 80 GB to levels near ...

Product Specifications - Page 2

WD Caviar Blue Specifications1 Model number Interface Formatted capacity User sectors per drive LBA support SATA latching connector Actuator latch/auto park Form factor RoHS compliant2 Performance Data transfer rate (max) Buffer to host Host to/from drive (sustained) ..../mm, ± .01 in.) Weight (lb./kg, ± 10%) 1 TB WD10EALS SATA 3 Gb/s 1,000,204 MB 1,953,525,169 Yes Yes Yes 3.5-inch Yes...

Product Specifications - Page 3

...Caviar Blue Specifications1 Model number Interface Formatted capacity User sectors per drive LBA support SATA latching connector Actuator latch/auto park Form factor RoHS compliant2 Performance Data transfer rate (max) Buffer to host Host to/from drive...kg, ± 10%) 250 GB WD2500AAKS WD2500AAJS SATA 3 Gb/s 250,059 MB 488,397,168 Yes Yes Yes 3.5-inch Yes 250 GB WD2500AAJB PATA 100 MB/s 250,059...

Quick Install Guide (pdf) - Page 2

Hard drives can purchase an Ultra ATA/100 PCI controller card at the WD Online store at support.wdc.com. Gather ...controller card (for instructions). -1- computer system manual; Before performing any other components, discharge static electricity by touching the metal chassis of your system manual for drives larger than 137 GB hard drive without a controller card. Data Lifeguard Tools ...

Quick Install Guide (pdf) - Page 6

... or help during the installation or normal use of Information Technology Equipment including Electrical Business Equipment. TUV Essen Laboratories IEC-950 (EN60950) Standard for Generic Immunity as applicable. These suggestions may include relocation of Communications. -5- WD is not responsible for any television, radio, or other interference caused by registering your hard drive online...

Quick Install Guide (pdf) - Page 7

... to repair or replace a defective Product. WD's replacement Product under its sole discretion. Online Warranty Inquiry For further warranty information and inquiries, visit our product support website at support....may not apply to you the very best of the implied warranties. The new online Warranty Inquiry System will have a reasonable time after determining that belong to other ...

User Manual (pdf) - Page 3

... the System BIOS 8 9 Data Lifeguard Tools v11.0 Create a Bootable Diskette 9 View Installation Tutorial 10 Set Up Your Hard Drive 11 Install a New Boot Drive 11 Install an Additional Storage Drive 14 Install a Drive Larger than 137 GB 17 Drive-to-Drive Copy Utility 19 Hard Drive Information 20 Install the Hard Drive in a Macintosh System 21 22 Troubleshooting Operating System and BIOS...

User Manual (pdf) - Page 4

... 31 Disclaimer of Warranties 31 Your Use of the Product 31 Limitation of Remedies 31 Limitation of Damages 31 No Consequential or Other Damages 31 Online Warranty Inquiry 32 Extended Warranty 32 TABLE OF CONTENTS - ii

User Manual (pdf) - Page 5

.../98SE may require additional hardware) BEFORE GETTING STARTED - 1 Mac G4 or greater (may require an Ultra ATA controller card with support for hard drives greater than 137 GB Macintosh ! Computer system manual ! Windows® XP ! Mac® OS X v10.2 or later ! Quick Install poster ! Windows Millennium (Me) ! Macintosh® OS v8.6 or later Additional...

User Manual (pdf) - Page 7

...manual for procedures. BEFORE GETTING STARTED - 3 WESTERN DIGITAL EIDE HARD DRIVE INSTALLATION GUIDE Register Your Drive Take advantage of your computer or by registering your new Western Digital hard drive...: Before handling the hard drive or any hardware installation, protect your data by backing up your existing hard drive before installing your new hard drive online at https://www.wdc...

User Manual (pdf) - Page 12

...other systems, Auto Detection is preselected. 3. Enable options such as floppy disk drive), and the hard drive(s). 5. Selecting User Defined ensures that may be booted from the Data Lifeguard ...HARD DRIVE - 8 Note: If your system BIOS does not have either upgrade your system BIOS or configure the current BIOS so that Data Lifeguard Tools will install on your BIOS. If your system manual...

User Manual (pdf) - Page 13

...Set Up Your Hard Drive - Create a Bootable Diskette If your desktop. 2. DATA LIFEGUARD TOOLS V11.0 - 9 Drive-to assist with hard drive installation, management, and diagnostics. Hard Drive Information - set a specific hard drive size. ! a) If using the Windows version, the CD autoruns on your hard drive. ! The Data Lifeguard Tools software is also available at support.wdc.com/download.

User Manual (pdf) - Page 14

...create and print custom hardware installation instructions. Note: The model number for your hard drive is not listed, you can manually type in the window. Select View Installation Tutorial...WESTERN DIGITAL EIDE HARD DRIVE INSTALLATION GUIDE View Installation Tutorial This section allows you to print the instructions Note: If your hard drive is printed on the label located on your desktop. 2. a)...

User Manual (pdf) - Page 21

... steps according to connecting the hard drive. You can purchase an Ultra ATA/100 PCI controller card at the Western Digital Online store at windowsupdate.microsoft.com. Alternate Solution: Intel® offers drivers for certain chipsets which provide BIOS support for the full capacity of drives larger than 137 GB: ! Select Run Data Lifeguard Installation...

User Manual (pdf) - Page 25

... computer to your Power Mac. 6. Power Mac G3 (blue and white colored, limited to be limited to certain configurations) A Power Mac with your computer system manual for a diagram of supporting dual IDE/ATA drives, allowing two drives to certain configurations) ! c) To install a hard drive less than 137 GB as Master (Master ID=0, Slave ID=1).

User Manual (pdf) - Page 27

... Tools: - To access the full capacity of the hard drive with these jumper settings. WESTERN DIGITAL EIDE HARD DRIVE INSTALLATION GUIDE 2. It is an 8.4 GB hard drive limitation on some traditional system BIOSs. Contact your drive. 8.4 GB Barrier There is difficult to access the full capacity of 8.4 GB and larger hard drives, your system BIOS must recognize extended BIOS functions...

User Manual (pdf) - Page 29

... versions) Windows 95 does not support hard drive capacities greater than 64 GB - Alternate Jumper Settings Some older computer systems have been identified and confirmed by Microsoft. FDISK does not recognize the full size of your new hard drive, try an alternate jumper setting to resolve this issue. To download the Microsoft fix for each problem...

User Manual (pdf) - Page 31

... tools will have its full capacity. Microsoft Windows 98SE has a limitation that installs on the drive will also report a drive present. For example, a Western Digital 200 GB hard drive's capacity will incorrectly show the capacity of data corruption, possibly a virus. The drive has failed and needs to remove all data on the boot sector of your...

User Manual (pdf) - Page 32

WESTERN DIGITAL EIDE HARD DRIVE INSTALLATION GUIDE Western Digital Service and Support If you need additional information or help during installation or normal use of this product, visit our product support Web site at support.wdc.com or send an e- mail to Western Digital Technical Support using the online form. Telephone Numbers Monday - You may...

User Manual (pdf) - Page 33

..., Part 15, Subpart B, for Class B Equipment. Warranty Information Agency Approvals Western Digital hard drives meet the standards of the following topics: ! APPENDIX - 29 TUV Essen Laboratories IEC-...(File LR68850). If interference problems do occur, consult the system equipment owner's manual for Safety of FCC rules. This does not guarantee that interference will not occur...