Western Digital WDE2170 - Manual (Page 9)

WD Enterprise WDE2170/WDE4360 Description and Features
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1. D ESCRIPTION AND F EATURES
1.1. General Description
Designed to set a new direction in mass storage solutions, the WD Enterprise™ low-
profile 3.5-inch hard drives are the first in a family of 7200 RPM products. The
outstanding performance, capacity, and reliability of these mass storage solutions make
them the most competitive price/performance choice for workstations, servers, and
multi-user systems.
The WDE2170 and WDE4360 drives feature formatted capacities of 2.1 and 4.3
gigabytes with media data transfer rates up to 140 Mbits per second. These drives are
SCSI-3 SPI compliant and support Ultra Fast and Ultra Fast Wide host transfer rates of
up to 40 MB/s. Advanced read/write caching, command queuing, command reordering
(seek and rotational), Self Monitoring and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.) and
SCSI Configure Automatically (SCAM) are standard features on the Western Digital
Enterprise hard drives.
Western Digital hard drives are designed and manufactured to the highest standards of
quality and reliability. WD Enterprise drives incorporate the mechanical platform design
and proven recording technologies of Western Digital’s award-winning Caviar drives.
This quality design means the WD Enterprise drives have fewer disks and heads which
translates into many performance and reliability advantages. The WDE2170 and
WDE4360 drives deliver the performance, capacity, and reliability demanded by all high
performance enterprise systems.