Western Digital Caviar 250GB Hard Drive

It seems the more space you have, the more stuff you accumulate to overfill it. Move into a bigger apartment, and straight away your so-called friends give you another shelf-full of trinkets and tchotchkes to celebrate. "Wow, look at all this space! Let us help you waste it!"

You don't need their help; you pick up new and useless property almost every day all by yourself. You have cigar boxes full of ticket stubs with sentimental value. You have fifteen cubic feet of t-shirts you haven't worn since the 1990s. You have folders' and folders' worth of insurance information, product warrantees and ancient receipts that you'll never need—but the longer you hang onto them, the more they become like charmed fetishes to ward off catastrophe.

How are you supposed to get rid of this stuff? And how does it expand to occupy exactly 115% of your available storage space, no matter whether you live in a teeny dormroom or two-story home with two-car garage?

We don't know, but we know there's no fighting it. Sure, a thorough "Spring Cleaning" might clear you a drawer or two, but sooner or later, as you're avidly cutting a swath through an especially old pile of junk, you'll hit a long-forgotten lode of souvenir keychains—and just like that, cleaning is off the agenda, because you have too far much wistful reminiscing to do.

As with living space, so with hard drive space. Remember moving into your first hundred-gig HD? Man, it seemed like you'd never want for space again. But before you knew it, that "properties" pie graph was almost all Used blue again, and now you had more treasured files to contemplate deleting (and every deletion made less of a difference in the percentage of free space available).

Fortunately, it's a lot easier to add another hard drive to your computer than it is to add an action figure storage wing to your home. For just a Gen. U.S. Grant (plus a Lincoln for shipping), nab this WD Caviar 7200 RPM EIDE HD, and start filling its colossal 250 GB of high-quality, high-reliability hard drive space.

These drives employ Data Lifeguard, Data Lifeguard Tools, and Shock Guard for shock and environmental protection, and they sport embedded error detection, isolation and repair features too. Fluid Dynamic Bearings reduce heat, vibration, and noise. If your data were a magazine collection, these drives would be like giant, dimly-lit, highly organized, climate-controlled rooms.

They say when Gandhi died, all his earthly possessions fit into a shoebox. Shoot, if he'd been smart, he could have had a couple of these big HDs in there, and been set on mp3s and "special interest" videos for months.

Warranty: 6 months from Woot

Features:

• 250GB
• 7200 RPM
• 2 MB cache
• EIDE
• Does not include installation instructions or an IDE cable.
• Ultra ATA/100 – Up to 100 MB/s burst transfer rates.
• Fluid Dynamic Bearing (FDB) technology – improves hard drive reliability; reduces heat, vibration, and noise.
• Shock Guard provides outstanding improvements in shock and vibration protection for WD Caviar drives. Shock Guard allows instantaneous data protection at high shock values to achieve leading shock

System Requirements

• IDE-ATA interface (40-pin connector)
• Ultra ATA-capable system

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Thu, 16 Nov 2006 07:02:34 GMT

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