Thread: Western Digital WD5000KS 500 gigabyte SATA hard disk repel.

Ifwe were to play a word connection game with a PC enthusiast and said"Western Digital," it's probably his geek reflexes wouldinstantly trigger and force him to reply "Raptor" earlierhe still recognized he had spoken. Western Digital constructs lotsmore memory products other than only the speed demons experienced asRaptors, although. While it is easy to be enamored with the Raptors,they are comparatively valuable and offer just a fraction of thecapacity of the 500GB and 750GB behemoths presently on the market.


Ourlabs were darned with one such behemoth from Western Digital, theWD5000KS, which is a member of the Caviar SE16 family. This 500GBSATA 3Gb/s repel characteristics a sixteen MB cache and a 7200 RPMspindle speed. The Raptors, with their tenk RPM spindle speed, havewon the overall 3.5" desktop HDD functioning crown, but theydon't win whatever capacity battles. That's where the WD5000KSarrives in.Although it didn't arrive in a retail box, our sample wasnot shipped as a bare repel.





Itarrived with the same accessories you would detect in a full retailpackage, admitting a Quick set up Guide, a CD with informationLifeguard Tools, four mounting screws and a Serial ATA cable withSecureConnect.In the second image above, you can assure theWD5000KS's connectors, which admit an eight-pin custom header, a SATAinformation connector, a SATA power connector, and a four-pin (orMolex) power connector.


Theinclusion of the four-pin power connector will delight users who donot accept a power supply that characteristics SATA power cables.Inthis picture, you can assure what the custom eight-pin header is for.When pins one and two are jumpered, SSC (Spread Spectrum Clocking) ischanged.