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 Post subject: WDxxxYY xxZZxx - meaning of sub part numbers
PostPosted: August 1st, 2007, 16:09 
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Anybody worked out the meaning of the sub part numbers on Western Digital drives; and closeness of PCBs.

For example with a WD2500BB- [00GUC0] does it refer purely to the ROM chip???

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 Post subject: Re: WDxxxYY xxZZxx - meaning of sub part numbers
PostPosted: August 1st, 2007, 18:03 
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sceggy wrote:
Anybody worked out the meaning of the sub part numbers on Western Digital drives; and closeness of PCBs.

For example with a WD2500BB- [00GUC0] does it refer purely to the ROM chip???

scegs


{xxGUCO} xx is OEM e.g =75GUC0 Would be a Dell OEM

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 Post subject: Re: WDxxxYY xxZZxx - meaning of sub part numbers
PostPosted: August 2nd, 2007, 9:19 
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BB in WD2500BB means it's a 7200 rpm ATA-100 drive. :)


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 Post subject: Re: WDxxxYY xxZZxx - meaning of sub part numbers
PostPosted: August 4th, 2007, 13:57 
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1. WD
Western Digital
2. Capacity
200,0 GB (up to 999,9 GB maximum)
3. Rotational speed of the disks
letters A-E are assigned to EIDE
A - 5400 rpm (WD Caviar 5400)
B - 7200 rpm (WD Caviar 7200)
C - 10'000 rpm
D - 4500 rpm (WD Spartan)
E - 5400 rpm (WD Protege)
letters F-Z are assigned to SCSI and specialized HDDs
F - 10'000 rpm, 2 Mb cache
G - 10'000 rpm, 8


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