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Western Digital AV Hard Drives

	WD2500AVJS 250GB SATA-II AV Hard Drive, OEM [20 in stock]	€45,72 (€53,73 inc BTW)
	WD5000AVJS 500GB SATA-II AV Hard Drive, OEM [6 in stock]	€65,79 (€77,31 inc BTW)

Western Digital (WD) hard drives have helped enable the digital content revolution since they first began shipping to Microsoft® XBOX in 2001. Today WD is a leading manufacturer of consumer electronics storage. Their drives can be found in a multitude of digital video recording products including personal video recorders (PVRs), digital video recorders (DVRs), set-top boxes (STBs) as well as surveillance video recording applications. We understand the unique requirements of this specialised storage-enabled market and these drives deliver the characteristics our customers come to expect.

Long-Term Reliability

With a MTBF of 1 million hours, these drives are designed to last in high temperature always-on streaming digital audio/video environments such as PVR/DVR, DVR recorders and surveillance video recorders.

Very Quiet

Noise levels have been minimised to less than one sone* - virtually below the threshold of human hearing.
* A sone is a subjective unit of loudness as perceived by a person with normal hearing

Low Power Consumption

WD AV drives deliver best-in-class low power consumption for reduced system power requirements and increased reliability. Please note: 3.3V SATA power is not available with this product.

Compatible

Tested for compatibility in a broad range of AV products including Media Center PCs, set top boxes, DVD recorders, and mainstream surveillance systems.

SilkStream™

Optimised for smooth, continuous digital video playback of up to twelve simultaneous HD streams**. SilkStream is compatible with the ATA streaming command set so customers can use standard streaming management and error recovery options.
** Assumes Host Transfer Block size of 2 MB per stream

IntelliSeek™

Calculates optimum seek speeds to lower power consumption, noise and vibration. Feel free to view the demo here.

Ramp Load

Parks the recording heads off the disk surface during spin up, spin down and when the drive is off. This ensures the recording head never touches the disk surface resulting in improved long term reliability due to less head wear, and improved non-operational shock tolerance.

Preemptive Wear Levelling (PWL)

The drive arm frequently sweeps across the disk to reduce uneven wear on the drive surface common to audio video streaming applications.

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Hard Drives and HDD silencers