WD shipping half-terabyte SATA drive

[roma_turok]

WD SHIPPING HALF-TERABYTE SERIAL ATA DESKTOP HARD DRIVES
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WD Caviar® SE16 500 GB Hard Drives Maximize Performance with 300 MB/s Transfer Rate and NCQ, Strengthen Position in High-Capacity Market

LAKE FOREST, Calif. - Jan. 26, 2006 - Western Digital Corp. (NYSE: WDC) today announced it is shipping its new high-capacity 500 GB Serial ATA (SATA) WD Caviar® SE16 desktop-class hard drives. Providing a half terabyte of capacity for data-intensive applications such as graphic design, digital video editing, personal video recorders and advanced business computing, WD Caviar SE16 500 GB drives also deliver high 7,200 RPM performance with 300 MB/s transfer rate, 16 MB cache and Native Command Queuing (NCQ).

"The WD Caviar family of hard drives delivers the reliability and performance that customers expect from WD," said Don Bennett, WD vice president and general manager of desktop storage. "The extreme capacity and high performance of this drive address a variety of demanding applications and expand WD's portfolio of storage products. From 6 to 500 GB, WD offers a diverse range of hard drives to meet our customers' wide-ranging storage needs."

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[waheed]

500GB SATA II drives are not new. Hitachi has been doing one for a while now at 500GB SATA II.

http://www.hitachigst.com/portal/site/en/menuitem.8f07a3c3d3a7a12d92b86b31bac4f0a0/

[roma_turok]

500GB SATA II drives are not new. Hitachi has been doing one for a while now at 500GB SATA II.

I know that.
I not saying its NEW or its first half-terabyte drive on the PLANET.
Its just first half-terabyte SATA drive released by Western Digital.

[ViRaL1]

500GB drives are soooooo 2005.

[d_unbeliever]

and my 40gb hd is soooooo ancient

[edDV]

Bring on the TB drives. I want two.

[roma_turok]

Purchased WD 400GB! :P
Now I have A LOT free space!

[tug_hill2]

Hello RomaTurok, Looks like a wonderful drive, but I like Seagate drives.



Also, with all of that data on a single drive, you may want to purchase another drive and copy important info to that secondary drive.

Cheers...!

Doc_B

[roma_turok]

Also, with all of that data on a single drive, you may want to purchase another drive and copy important info to that secondary drive.

Its Ok I do not need backup all drive, If I strike by virus or hacker
All important data fit to single DVD-R disk.

Cheers...!

[Nilfennasion]

Now would they please just start either labelling the drives according to their actual capacity, or better yet, actually make the drives in the stated capacity? (Is still fuming over Verbatim's attempt to explain why their "8.5GB" DVD+R DLs are sized by Windoze as 7.9...)

[whitejremiah]

they cant do it, because depending on what os your running, that can very a bit, depending on what file system your using........

[smearbrick1]

Give 'em about 2 months and they'll be selling them at Office Max for $59.99 after mail in rebate.

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