Western Digital WD102BA 10.2GB 3.5" IDE Hard Drive WD Caviar Enhanced IDE

Western Digital WD102BA 10.2GB 3.5" IDE Hard Drive WD Caviar Enhanced IDE

The Western Digital WD102BA is a 3.5-inch Enhanced IDE (EIDE/ATA) hard drive from the WD Caviar series, offering 10.2 GB of storage capacity. Manufactured in January 2000, this drive uses the standard 40-pin IDE interface that was ubiquitous in desktop PCs of the era. It has been tested, formatted, and wiped at our facility and is in good working condition.

Specifications & What's Included

• Brand: Western Digital
• Series: WD Caviar
• Model: WD102BA (MPN: WD102BA-00AGA0)
• Capacity: 10.2 GB (10,254.8 MB formatted)
• LBA Sectors: 20,028,960
• Form Factor: 3.5-inch
• Interface: Enhanced IDE (EIDE / ATA) — 40-pin connector
• Power: 5VDC @ 0.63A, 12VDC @ 0.29A
• Country of Manufacture: Malaysia
• Manufacture Date: 14 January 2000
• Hard drive only — no cables or mounting hardware included

Applications

The WD Caviar line was one of Western Digital's mainstream desktop hard drive families through the late 1990s and early 2000s, a period when IDE (ATA) was the standard interface for consumer and business desktop PCs. Drives like the WD102BA were the primary storage solution in machines running Windows 98, Windows 2000, and early Windows XP. Today, 10 GB IDE drives are most commonly sought for restoring vintage desktop PCs, replacing failed drives in legacy systems, and maintaining older industrial or embedded computers that rely on the PATA/IDE interface. The 40-pin ATA connector and jumper-configurable master/slave/cable-select settings are characteristic of this generation of storage hardware, which predates the shift to Serial ATA (SATA) that began around 2003.