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The perfect solution for home and office computing needs.

The perfect solution for home and office computing needs.

Options:

WD Blue
WD Green
WD Black
WD VelociRaptor

Interface:

SATA 3 Gb/s
PATA

Cache:

8 MB

Options:

500 GB
320 GB

Model: WDBAAV3200ENC-NRSN

With SATA and PATA interfaces and cache sizes up to 32 MB, this series of drives offer a full range of performance features. Pick the drive that suits your needs with the confidence in knowing that all WD Caviar Blue drives are built to the highest standards of quality and reliability.

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Overview

Built to Western Digital's awarding winning quality standards, these drives are available in a full range of performance features.

Solid performance - With SATA and PATA interfaces, and cache sizes up to 32 MB, this series of drives offer a full range of performance features.

Ultra cool and quiet - Keeping the drive cool enhances reliability. WD continues to develop new and innovative ways to keep drives cool while they are operating which helps protect the drive and the data stored on it.

Capacity - We offer WD Caviar Blue drives with capacities from 80 GB to 1 TB because you can never have too much storage space.

NoTouch ramp load technology - The recording head never touches the disk media ensuring significantly less wear to the recording head and media as well as better drive protection in transit. IntelliSeek - Calculates optimum seek speeds to lower power consumption, noise and vibration.

ShockGuard - Instantaneously protects the hard drive against damage from bumps and vibrations while it is running. This technology enables WD Caviar drives to achieve industry-leading shock specifications.

Compatible - We perform tests on hundreds of systems and a multitude of platforms in our FIT Lab and Mobile Compatibility Lab to give our customers confidence that our drives will work in their systems.

How this WD hard drive protects your data

Data Lifeguard is an exclusive set of data protection features, including shock protection, an environmental protection system and real-time embedded error detection and repair. WD's Data Lifeguard technology automatically finds, isolates, and repairs problems that may develop over the life of a hard drive.
Data Lifeguard Tools are software utilities designed for WD hard drives that work with the embedded Data Lifeguard features to make hard drive installation,diagnostics and repair both simple and worry-free.
ShockGuard instantaneously protects the hard drive against damage from bumps and vibrations while it is running. This technology enables WD Caviar drives to achieve industry-leading shock specifications.

Ideal For
Family and business computing

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Specifications

Performance Specifications

Transfer Rates
	Transfer Rate (Buffer To Disk)	126 MB/s (Max)

	Buffer to Host (EIDE)
	Mode 5 Ultra ATA	100 MB/s

Physical Specifications
	Formatted Capacity	320,072 MB
	Capacity	320 GB
	Interface	PATA 100 MB/s
	User Sectors Per Drive	625,142,448

Physical Dimensions
English
	Height	1.028 Inches
	Depth	5.787 Inches
	Width	4.00 Inches
	Weight	0.95 Pounds

Metric
	Height	25.4 mm
	Depth	147 mm
	Width	101.6 mm
	Weight	0.43 kg