Western Digital Caviar® Blue
3.5 inch hard drive, 320 GB, SATA 3 Gb/s, 8 MB cache performance and reliability in everyday computing.
This WD Caviar Blue hard drive is available with a SATA interface, 320GB and 8MB cache with a variety of features available that guarantee you rock-solid performance and ultra-cool, quiet operation.
Ideal for family affairs and business needs in home and office.
- Resistant Performance - EIDE and SATA interfaces, as well as cache sizes from 2MB to 16MB, create a full range of performance features to suit your needs.
- ULTRA COOL & QUIET - Cool drives have a longer service life. WD is constantly developing new and innovative ways to keep drives cool during operation, helping to protect the hard drive and the data stored on it.
- HIGH CAPACITY - We offer WD Caviar Blue drives in storage capacities from 40GB to 750GB, because you can never have enough storage space.
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EIDE - Enhanced Integrated Drive Electronics (EIDE), also called Parallel ATA Drives (PATA), were the standard in the computer industry for over 10 years.
SATA hard drive drives are rapidly becoming the new standard. Motherboards manufacturers now equip their products with SATA input ports. Because of their significantly narrower cables, SATA hard drives - compared to EIDE drives - ensure improved air circulation and less tangled cables in computer systems.
THE DIFFERENCE IN PERFORMANCE - EIDE drives provide data transfer rates of up to 100MB/s, all WD Caviar Blue SATA drives support data transfer rates of 3Gb/s.
- Reliability: We are aware of the importance of your data. That's why we are committed to protecting this data with exceptionally reliable products, innovative privacy technology and first-class customer support.
- Low operating temperature - A permanently cool drive operation increases reliability. WD continuously develops new and innovative methods to keep drives cool during operation.
- Quiet - The technology described in Tom's Hardware Guide as "very fast and almost silent" is used exclusively in this drive family. Our WhisperDrive™ technology reduces noise to a level where it is almost no longer noticeable to the human ear. To reduce noise during search operations, SoftSeek™ technology optimises search algorithms during write/read operations to improve processing.
- NoTouch™ Rampload Technology - Prevents contact between the recording head and the drive surface. This ensures significantly less wear and tear of the recording head, as well as better protection of the drive during transport. (Available for storage capacity from 120 GB).
- IntelliSeek™ - Calculates the optimal search speeds to reduce power consumption, noise and vibration. (Available for storage capacity from 120 GB).
- COMPATIBLE - We test our drives in hundreds of systems and on numerous platforms in our FIT Lab™ and mobile compatibility lab to ensure WD drives work in their systems for our customers.
How this WD hard drive protects your data - Data Lifeguard™ is an exclusive line of privacy features, including shock protection and built-in real-time error detection and repair. WD's Data Lifeguard technology automatically detects and fixes errors that can occur during prolonged use of a drive.
- Data Lifeguard Tools™ are software utilities designed specifically for WD hard drives that interact with the built-in Data Lifeguard features to facilitate installation, diagnosis and repair of hard drive drives.
- Shock Guard™ protects the hard drive from damage caused by bumps or shocks while in operation. This technology is thanks to the fact that WD Caviar drives have the best impact resistance values in the industry.
To simplify drive selection, we have summarized our well-known WD Caviar SE16, WD Caviar SE and WD Caviar drives under WD Caviar Blue. These drives are built to Western Digital's award-winning quality standards and are available with a wide range of high-performance features.
WD Caviar Blue is part of the full range of WD desktop hard drives 
