WD Harddrive AAJS or JS

[John Williams]

Can anyone tell me the difference between a WD1600AAJS and a WD1600JS hard drive.

[curlysir]

They appear to be the same drive: http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc....&p_topview= 1

[curlysir]

Go here: http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc....1262&p _olh=0

As far as I can tell JS is manufactured before December 2005, AAJS is manufactured in December 2005 and after.

[John Williams]

Thanks for the links.
I could not see what the difference was.

[steven975]

may be best to go for the newer drive as it could be using platters with higher data density (and fewer platters).

[phaseIV]

From a post at another forum, the AA designates that the drive has a single platter.