Western Digital Caviar Blue 160 GB

A 160GB 3.5" HDD on the PATA 100 interface. At roughly $0.81 per gigabyte it sits in the high-end tier. Sequential throughput reaches 550 MB/s reads and 520 MB/s writes, backed by 8MB of cache. At $129.00 it sits in the high-end drive bracket.

Drop it into the PlanMyPC builder to check compatibility with the rest of your parts and compare current drive prices across retailers. Western Digital backs the product through its standard warranty channels; check the listing for region-specific terms. Every published spec is tabulated below, and compatibility against your current part list is checked automatically. The category page surfaces comparable models near the same price, which makes shortlisting against this drive straightforward.