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product_id: 1242458
title: "WD Blue 160 GB Desktop Hard Drive: 3.5 Inch, 7200 RPM, PATA, 8 MB Cache - WD1600AAJB"
brand: "western digital"
price: "75947 Ft"
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reviews_count: 8
category: "Western Digital"
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# 7200 RPM high-speed rotation 160 GB storage capacity IntelliSeek tech for ultra-quiet operation WD Blue 160 GB Desktop Hard Drive: 3.5 Inch, 7200 RPM, PATA, 8 MB Cache - WD1600AAJB

**Brand:** western digital
**Price:** 75947 Ft
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

## Summary

> 💾 Upgrade your vintage rig with speed and silence — because classic never goes out of style!

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** WD Blue 160 GB Desktop Hard Drive: 3.5 Inch, 7200 RPM, PATA, 8 MB Cache - WD1600AAJB by western digital
- **How much does it cost?** 75947 Ft with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
- **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.hu](https://www.desertcart.hu/products/1242458-wd-blue-160-gb-desktop-hard-drive-3-5-inch)

## Best For

- western digital enthusiasts

## Why This Product

- Trusted western digital brand quality
- Free international shipping included
- Worldwide delivery with tracking
- 15-day hassle-free returns

## Key Features

- • **Speed Meets Silence:** 7200 RPM with IntelliSeek tech ensures fast data access without the noise
- • **Backup & Clone Ready:** Perfect for hassle-free cloning and backup of legacy systems with OEM reliability
- • **Plug & Play Simplicity:** Standard 3.5-inch PATA interface for seamless integration with older systems
- • **Reliable Legacy Storage:** 160 GB capacity to revive and extend your classic desktop life
- • **Energy-Efficient Performance:** Optimized seek speeds reduce power consumption and vibration

## Overview

The WD Blue 160 GB Desktop Hard Drive (WD1600AAJB) is a 3.5-inch internal drive featuring a fast 7200 RPM spindle speed and an 8 MB cache. Designed with an enhanced EIDE (PATA) interface, it offers reliable performance for legacy desktop systems. Its IntelliSeek technology intelligently optimizes seek speeds to minimize noise, vibration, and power consumption, making it an ideal choice for professionals maintaining or upgrading older computers. This drive is perfect for cloning, backup, and extending the life of vintage desktops with trusted Western Digital quality.

## Description

desertcart.com: WD Blue 160 GB Desktop Hard Drive: 3.5 Inch, 7200 RPM, PATA, 8 MB Cache - WD1600AAJB : Electronics

Review: Great Hard Drive! - I purchased this hard drive to replace the 60GB hard drive in my HP Pavilion 742n purchased back in 2002. There was nothing wrong with the old hard drive and it had alot of free space left. The HP system recovery is on the D partition of the hard drive, and not on seperate CDs. If the hard drive did go South, I would have to purchase another operating system. I intended to install the WD hard drive and keep the old one as a back up in the event I needed to re-install the operating system. As stated, this is a bulk OEM package. All you get is the hard drive, no cables or attaching screws. I've been in the computer case before to clean out the dust bunnies from the cooling fans, upgrade the memory, and replace the CD writer with a DVD burner. This seemed to be a little more involved and made me a little anxious. In the end, it turned out to be very easy. The ribbon cable connected to the hard drive had provisions to connect two devices. The connectors were clearly marked with "primary" and "slave." I left the jumper settings on both hard drives to "cable select" and connected the WD hard drive to the "slave" connector. There is a diagram printed on the hard drive showing the jumper settings for the different configurations. I did alot of research beforehand on cloning software and decided to just use the Acronis cloning software available from the WD website. The cloning software will only work if it detects a WD component. It was easy to use and pretty much self explanatory. Once the cloning was done, I removed the old hard drive and attached the WD hard drive to the primary connector. The computer booted right up without any problems. I decided to test out the HP system recovery (pressing F10 when you see the blue HP logo) and it didn't boot into the HP system recovery. It just rebooted back to Windows. From what I could determine, it has to do with the partition configuration, which I haven't quite figured out yet, and frankly don't have any plans to at this point. When you do a system recovery, the computer reverts to as it was out of the box, with all the annoying programs that it came with and none of the programs you installed. I have everything set up just like I want it on the old hard drive. If anything should happen, I can just use it to re-install everything. The hard drive is very quiet, in fact, I can't even hear it! All in all, I think this a great product at a very reasonable price and a great way to update an older computer.
Review: Use it for backup - I bought this drive to replace another that failed. I back up my wife's system using xxclone, a free application that clones an entire disk, warts and all. You can either clone disk A to disk B then run off B while keeping A as a backup, or run off A and keep B as a backup until you clone again. The clone disk is a complete, bootable replacement for the original disk (except that Windows could possibly and unhelpfully complain. In my experience, changing only the disk but not the disk ID, a feature of xxclone, is tolerated by Windows XP Pro.) I would think that Microsoft could now send out an update to XP systems that would allow easy clone backup of XP systems, seeing as how they have since gone through Vista (with great pain) and 7, but they seem to want to perpetuate the pain of backing up an entire hard drive in case it fails totally -- which seems to be the common mode. They want you to re-install every app and every update -- not customer friendly at all. Sure, the disk is old school, and so is my wife's computer, but it functions well enough for email and occasional word processing. Still, there are things on her computer that would be a pain to lose. Solution: clone the disk to another IDE disk using xxclone every few months. Having used Linux/Ubuntu on other systems, I'll never buy another Microsoft or Apple system again; most people would never notice the difference except for the lack of headaches and cost. But for now, it's great to have available a quality hard drive to back up a legacy computer -- at least until the motherboard fails.

## Features

- Enhanced integrated drive electronics (EIDE) interface
- Ultra cool and quiet
- IntelliSeek - Calculates optimum seek speeds to lower power consumption, noise, and vibration.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN | B000VRZ7PA |
| Additional Features | Portable |
| Best Sellers Rank | #2,326 in Internal Hard Drives #32,220 in Computer Internal Components |
| Brand | Western Digital |
| Cache Memory Installed Size | 64 |
| Color | Blue |
| Compatible Devices | Desktop |
| Connectivity Technology | PATA |
| Customer Reviews | 4.2 out of 5 stars 752 Reviews |
| Data Transfer Rate | 100 Megabytes Per Second |
| Digital Storage Capacity | 160 GB |
| Enclosure Material | Aluminum |
| Form Factor | 3.5-inch |
| Global Trade Identification Number | 00718037715018, 03700556008327 |
| Hard Disk Description | desktop |
| Hard Disk Form Factor | 3.5 Inches |
| Hard Disk Interface | IDE |
| Hard Disk Rotational Speed | 7200 RPM |
| Hard-Drive Size | 160 GB |
| Hardware Connectivity | ATA |
| Installation Type | Internal Hard Drive |
| Item Weight | 430 Grams |
| Manufacturer | Western Digital |
| Media Speed | 100 MB/s |
| Model Name | VelociRaptor |
| Model Number | WD1600AAJB |
| Number of Items | 1 |
| Special Feature | Portable |
| Specific Uses For Product | Business |
| UPC | 718037715018 683728077167 715663212850 718037715025 683728083359 683728152369 715663212843 890552625246 683728153779 854441001030 |
| Warranty Description | 2 |

## Product Details

- **Brand:** Western Digital
- **Color:** Blue
- **Compatible Devices:** Desktop
- **Connectivity Technology:** PATA
- **Digital Storage Capacity:** 160 GB
- **Hard Disk Description:** desktop
- **Hard Disk Form Factor:** 3.5 Inches
- **Hard Disk Interface:** IDE
- **Installation Type:** Internal Hard Drive
- **Special Feature:** Portable

## Images

![WD Blue 160 GB Desktop Hard Drive: 3.5 Inch, 7200 RPM, PATA, 8 MB Cache - WD1600AAJB - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71fhwvANkFL.jpg)

## Available Options

This product comes in different **Size** options.

## Questions & Answers

**Q: is it SATA technology?**
A: No it is NOT SATA technology.  It uses the description PATA technology which is the same thing as IDE that is found in older PCs like the one I'm keeping alive.  I also discovered that XP does not like to go above 128 MG so I quit fighting that limitation and just underutilize the drive or partition it into to logical drives.

**Q: is it up to date?**
A: I ordered one in October 2018 from AMTECH and the unit that was delivered was manufactured in May 2011.  They are no longer manufactured by Western Digital, but I don't know when manufacturing stopped.

**Q: Will this work to replace my dead hard drive in my original Xbox (not the 360 or 1)?**
A: Well, Yes you can. But you will have to do some work. I don't know how but this website has instructions.http://www.se7ensins.com/forums/threads/how-to-create-a-xbox-360-hard-drive-from-scratch-western-digital-only.897465/Hope you can do it. Let me know if it works.David

**Q: will this work in a macbook air first gen?**
A: No, it is the wrong physical size 3.5 inches vs 1.8 inches and different connectors.

## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great Hard Drive!
*by K***0 on March 26, 2010*

I purchased this hard drive to replace the 60GB hard drive in my HP Pavilion 742n purchased back in 2002. There was nothing wrong with the old hard drive and it had alot of free space left. The HP system recovery is on the D partition of the hard drive, and not on seperate CDs. If the hard drive did go South, I would have to purchase another operating system. I intended to install the WD hard drive and keep the old one as a back up in the event I needed to re-install the operating system. As stated, this is a bulk OEM package. All you get is the hard drive, no cables or attaching screws. I've been in the computer case before to clean out the dust bunnies from the cooling fans, upgrade the memory, and replace the CD writer with a DVD burner. This seemed to be a little more involved and made me a little anxious. In the end, it turned out to be very easy. The ribbon cable connected to the hard drive had provisions to connect two devices. The connectors were clearly marked with "primary" and "slave." I left the jumper settings on both hard drives to "cable select" and connected the WD hard drive to the "slave" connector. There is a diagram printed on the hard drive showing the jumper settings for the different configurations. I did alot of research beforehand on cloning software and decided to just use the Acronis cloning software available from the WD website. The cloning software will only work if it detects a WD component. It was easy to use and pretty much self explanatory. Once the cloning was done, I removed the old hard drive and attached the WD hard drive to the primary connector. The computer booted right up without any problems. I decided to test out the HP system recovery (pressing F10 when you see the blue HP logo) and it didn't boot into the HP system recovery. It just rebooted back to Windows. From what I could determine, it has to do with the partition configuration, which I haven't quite figured out yet, and frankly don't have any plans to at this point. When you do a system recovery, the computer reverts to as it was out of the box, with all the annoying programs that it came with and none of the programs you installed. I have everything set up just like I want it on the old hard drive. If anything should happen, I can just use it to re-install everything. The hard drive is very quiet, in fact, I can't even hear it! All in all, I think this a great product at a very reasonable price and a great way to update an older computer.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Use it for backup
*by T***K on February 28, 2012*

I bought this drive to replace another that failed. I back up my wife's system using xxclone, a free application that clones an entire disk, warts and all. You can either clone disk A to disk B then run off B while keeping A as a backup, or run off A and keep B as a backup until you clone again. The clone disk is a complete, bootable replacement for the original disk (except that Windows could possibly and unhelpfully complain. In my experience, changing only the disk but not the disk ID, a feature of xxclone, is tolerated by Windows XP Pro.) I would think that Microsoft could now send out an update to XP systems that would allow easy clone backup of XP systems, seeing as how they have since gone through Vista (with great pain) and 7, but they seem to want to perpetuate the pain of backing up an entire hard drive in case it fails totally -- which seems to be the common mode. They want you to re-install every app and every update -- not customer friendly at all. Sure, the disk is old school, and so is my wife's computer, but it functions well enough for email and occasional word processing. Still, there are things on her computer that would be a pain to lose. Solution: clone the disk to another IDE disk using xxclone every few months. Having used Linux/Ubuntu on other systems, I'll never buy another Microsoft or Apple system again; most people would never notice the difference except for the lack of headaches and cost. But for now, it's great to have available a quality hard drive to back up a legacy computer -- at least until the motherboard fails.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent OEM Replacement or Additional Storage Drive
*by R***. on September 24, 2011*

This New Western Digital 320GB Caviar Blue drive is an excellent OEM replacement drive. It comes basic, as expected, without any additional hardware, software or documentation. Usage (jumper assignment) configuration is shown on the drive label. Determine your configuration, set jumper and install drive. After computer start-up, go to drive management software (either OS based or third-party), format and/or partition drive to your specifications and you're up and running. Since I am using this drive simply as additional storage, no BIOS changes were necessary...you may need to make some Hardware BIOS configuration changes depending on your desired system configuration. A few years ago, I had actually purchased a WD 120GB Black Caviar drive as an identical replacement for a dead drive in an older XP system. I have been so happy using the computer since then, I decided to buy this hard drive for more use and storage available. I am very happy with the speed of these drives and their virtually silent operation. Overall, I highly recommend Western Digital drives for quality, performance and ease of operation.

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