Western WD Caviar® SE16

Performance Specifications

Transfer Rates
	Buffer To Host (Serial ATA)	3 Gb/s (Max)
	Transfer Rate (Buffer To Disk)	972 Mbits/s (Max)

Physical Specifications
	Formatted Capacity	250,059 MB
	Capacity	250 GB
	Interface	SATA 3 Gb/s
	User Sectors Per Drive	488,397,168

Physical Dimensions
English
	Height	1.028 Inches (Max)
	Length	5.787 Inches (Max)
	Width	4.00 Inches (+/- 0.010 inch)
	Weight	1.33 Pounds

Metric
	Height	25.4 mm (Max)
	Length	147 mm (Max)
	Width	101.6 mm
	Weight	0.60 kg

Environmental Specifications
Shock
	Operating Shock (Read)	65G, 2 ms
	Non-operating Shock	350G, 2 ms

Acoustics
	Idle Mode	25 dBA (average)
	Seek Mode 0	29 dBA (average)
	Seek Mode 3	26 dBA (average)

Temperature (English)
	Operating	32° F to 140° F
	Non-operating	-40° F to 149° F

Temperature (Metric)
	Operating	-0° C to 60° C
	Non-operating	-40° C to 65° C

Humidity
	Operating	5-95% RH non-condensing
	Non-operating	5-95% RH non-condensing

Altitude (English)
	Operating	-1,000 feet to 10,000 feet
	Non-operating	-1,000 feet to 40,000 feet

Altitude (Metric)
	Operating	-305M to 3,050M
	Non-operating	-305M to 12,200M

Vibration
	Operating
	Linear	20-300 Hz, 0.75 G (0 to peak)
	Random	7-500 Hz (0.00221 g² / Hz)

	Non-operating
	Low Frequency	10-300 Hz, 0.195 inches (double amplitude)
	High Frequency	300-500 Hz, 5.0G (0 to peak)

Electrical Specifications
Current Requirements
	12 VDC
	Read/Write	395 mA
	Idle	380 mA
	Standby	6 mA
	Sleep	6 mA

	5 VDC
	Read/Write	660 mA
	Idle	532 mA
	Standby	180 mA
	Sleep	180 mA

	Power Dissipation
	Read/Write	7.80 Watts
	Idle	7.20 Watts
	Standby	0.97 Watts
	Sleep	0.97 Watts