- SATA 300 MB/sec Interface (SATA II 3Gb/sec)
- 16 MB cache buffer size
- 7200 rpm
The Western Digital RE2 and RE3 RAID Edition hard drives are the most reliable server-class
SATA drives in the marketplace. With 1.2 million hours MTBF, 100% duty cycle, 5-year
warranty, up to 3.0 Gb/s SATA technology, and best-in-class vibration tolerance,
WD RAID Edition drives offer the best combination of superior reliability, high capacity,
and optimum performance for enterprise applications.
Superior reliability - Designed and manufactured to server-class standards to provide best-in-class enterprise reliability in high duty cycle environments. With
a 1.2 million hours MTBF at 100% duty cycle rating, these drives have the highest available reliability rating on a high-capacity drive.
Fast - With a next-generation SATA interface, up to 3.0 Gb/s data transfer rate, native command queuing (NCQ), and 16 MB cache, these drives deliver optimum performance.
Low power - Active Power Save delivers best-in-class seek mode power consumption through an advanced WD firmware which conserves power in active seek modes without degrading performance.
RAID-specific, time-limited error recovery (TLER) - A feature pioneered by WD, significantly reduces drive fallout caused by the extended hard drive error-recovery processes common to desktop drives.
Rotary Acceleration Feed Forward (RAFF™) - Provides best-in-class vibration tolerance by optimizing operation and performance when the drives are used in vibration-prone, multidrive systems such as rack-mounted servers or network storage.
Ideal for:
- Audio/video media applications
- E-mail, database, web and file servers
- Network attached storage
- Scientific computing
- Life sciences
- Video surveillance
- Enterprise backup
- Document/image management
- Call centers
- Other demanding write-intensive applications
| Western
Digital RE2 & RE3 SATA 300 MB/sec (SATA II 3Gb/sec) Hard Drive Specifications |
| Rotational Speed |
7,200 RPM (nominal) |
| Buffer Size |
16 MB |
| Average Latency |
4.20 ms (nominal) |
| Seek Times
(Average) |
| Read Seek Time (Average) |
8.7 ms |
| Track-To-Track Seek Time |
0.6 ms (average) |
| Full Stroke Seek |
21.0 ms (average) |
| Transfer
Rates |
| Buffer To Host (Serial ATA II) |
3.0 Gb/s (Max) |
| Buffer To Disk (sustained) |
98 MB/s (RE2)
126 MB/s
(RE3) |
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