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title: "WD Blue 160 GB Desktop Hard Drive: 3.5 Inch, 7200 RPM, PATA, 8 MB Cache - WD1600AAJB"
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price: "$291"
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# 7200 RPM high-speed rotation 160 GB storage capacity PATA (EIDE) interface, 100 MB/s transfer WD Blue 160 GB Desktop Hard Drive: 3.5 Inch, 7200 RPM, PATA, 8 MB Cache - WD1600AAJB

**Brand:** western digital
**Price:** $291
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

## Summary

> 💼 Upgrade your legacy rig with WD Blue — classic reliability, modern efficiency.

## 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?** $291 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
- **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.nz](https://www.desertcart.nz/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

- • **Optimized Data Flow:** 8 MB cache and 100 MB/s PATA interface ensure smooth, consistent data transfer.
- • **Plug & Play Confidence:** Extensively tested for compatibility across Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms.
- • **Speed Meets Efficiency:** 7200 RPM spin rate combined with IntelliSeek tech reduces noise, vibration, and power use.
- • **Reliable Legacy Powerhouse:** Seamlessly upgrade older desktops with proven WD Blue durability and performance.
- • **No-Touch Ramp Load Protection:** Enhanced drive longevity with recording heads that never touch the disk surface.

## Overview

The WD Blue 160 GB Desktop Hard Drive is a 3.5-inch internal HDD featuring a 7200 RPM spindle speed and an 8 MB cache, connected via a PATA (EIDE) interface delivering up to 100 MB/s transfer rates. Designed for everyday computing and legacy system upgrades, it incorporates IntelliSeek technology for quieter, cooler operation and NoTouch Ramp Load to protect the drive’s recording heads. Tested extensively for cross-platform compatibility, it offers a reliable, cost-effective storage solution for professional and home desktop users.

## Description

From the Manufacturer WD Blue Desktop Hard Drives – Solid performance and reliability for everyday computing.The original. WD Blue drives are designed and manufactured with the proven technology found in WD's original award-winning desktop hard drives. WD quality. Built to the highest standards of quality and reliability, these drives offer the features and capacity ideal for your everyday computing needs. More options. These drives are available in a broad range of capacities, cache sizes and interfaces so you can be sure there's a drive that's the perfect fit for your system, in more ways than one. Product FeaturesNoTouch Ramp Load technology - The recording head never touches the disk media ensuring significantly less wear to the recording head and media as well as better drive protection in transit.SATA or PATA interface - While SATA has become the industry standard interface, WD continues to manufacture desktop drives with a PATA interface for unique or legacy systems.Tested for compatibility - We perform tests on hundreds of systems and a multitude of platforms in our FIT Lab to give our customers confidence that our drives will work in their systems.The WD advantage - WD puts our products through extensive Functional Integrity Testing (F.I.T.) prior to any product launch. On average, each new product goes through 600,000 hours of testing. WD also has a detailed Knowledge Base with more than 1,000 helpful articles. You can also call toll-free support 7 days per week in the U.S. and Canada. See the WD Support site for full details.Upgrading your drive is easy - WD Acronis TrueImage, available as a free download on the WD Support site, enables you to copy all your data to a new drive so you don't have to reinstall your operating system to get all the benefits of a new drive.WD-certified packaging - All WD drives purchased from desertcart.com are shipped in WD-certified hard drive packaging. It is designed and fully tested to provide WD products with the highest of safety while in transit. With WD-certified packaging, you can rest assured that your WD hard drive will arrive safely, fully protected, in a non-descript, easy-open package.Compatibility Works with Windows 7/Vista/XP/2000, Mac and Linux operating systems.Recommended use - WD Blue hard drives are tested and recommended for use in PCs, high-performance workstations and notebook computers.**Desktop drives are not recommended for use in RAID environments, please consider using WD Red hard drives for home and small office 1-5 bay NAS systems and WD Enterprise hard drives for rackmount and >5 bay NAS systems.Ideal for:Family and business computingAdding storage in desktop PCs or external drivesAdding extra storage space for photos, videos and musicFeatures at a glance80 GB - 1 TB capacity SATA 6 Gb/s or PATA 100 MB/s7200 RPM You might also consider: 3.5-inch InternalComparison Chart WD Blue WD Green WD Black WD Red WD VelociRaptor Solid performanceand reliability for everyday computing. Cool, quiet operationfor efficient eco-conscious computing. Maximum performancefor power computing. The right drive for homeor small office NAS. High-performance storage for power users. Ideal for Family and business computing. Desktop PCs, secondary storage and external drives. Photo and video editing, and maxed out gaming systems. Specifically designed and tested for small office and home office, 1-5 bay NAS systems. Performance enthusiast systems and workstations. Capacity range 80 GB – 1 TB 320 GB – 3 TB 500 GB – 2 TB 1 TB – 3 TB 250 GB – 1 TB Interface SATA 6 Gb/sPATA 100 MB/s SATA 6 Gb/s SATA 6 Gb/s SATA 6 Gb/s SATA 6 Gb/s Form factor 3.5-inch 3.5-inch 3.5-inch 3.5-inch 3.5-inch Cache 8 MB – 64 MB 64 MB 32 MB – 64 MB 64 MB 64 MB Highest capacity Highest performance Photo/video editing Network Storage Systems

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 | #2,214 in Internal Hard Drives #31,886 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 749 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 Height | 1 inches |
| 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

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

## 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/51IAJiHrjiL.jpg)
![WD Blue 160 GB Desktop Hard Drive: 3.5 Inch, 7200 RPM, PATA, 8 MB Cache - WD1600AAJB - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71Wie5JIciL.jpg)
![WD Blue 160 GB Desktop Hard Drive: 3.5 Inch, 7200 RPM, PATA, 8 MB Cache - WD1600AAJB - Image 3](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71fhwvANkFL.jpg)

## 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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