The Mobile Storage Giant: A FireWire Hard Drive From Western Digital

FireWire Drive: Technical Data

Note that the guarantee covers only one year (source : Western Digital website), which is a relatively short amount of time. In Europe, the manufacturer guarantee has to cover a minumum of two years, according to a law which has been in effect since the beginning of the year. So in Europe, Western Digital (or the retailers) will have to comply with this rule.

In the hard drive sector, the guarantee usually covers three to five years ; here, the FireWire drive deviates from the standard.

The inner workings of this drive are from the well-known WD1200BB, which offers 2 MB cache and runs at a speedy 7,200 rpm. Happily, this FireWire drive has a very low noise level ; it’s only when it is used with a notebook that the noise is somewhat noticeable. However, this is not bad, considering that the average PC system is generally louder than this external drive.

Additional information about this drive can be found at the Western Digital website :

http://www.wdc.com/products/firewire120gb.asp

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