Photo: Red Hill.
Western Digital Caviar AC2340
340MB drives never really took off. By the time the price came down enough to be affordable, you could get a 420 for not much more.
AC2340 was a typical Western Digital drive of the period: fairly quick, fairly reliable, very easy to set up and work with.
| Performance | 0.62 | Reliability | AA2 |
| Data rate | 28 Mbit/sec | Spin rate | 3322 RPM |
| Seek time | 13ms | Buffer | |
| Platter capacity | 170MB | Interface | IDE |
| Actuator | voice coil | Form | 3½" 1/3 height> |
| AC2340 | 341.3MB | 4 thin-film heads | ** |