Western Digital 640GB - Twice the Platters, Twice the Fun

**MIG-31** · Mar 21, 2008, 09:06 AM

Western Digital's emphasis on recent product releases has been the consumer oriented GreenPower family of products. That all changed last month with the release of the Caviar SE16 320GB drives featuring their new 320GB per-platter technology. We previewed this drive and came away impressed by its excellent thermals, power management, and acoustics but depressed by performance that was not any better than previous generation drives featuring 166GB~200GB per-platter designs. We have an answer to our performance-induced depression but that will have to wait for page two.
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Source: Anandtech

Mar 21, 2008, 09:06 AM	#1
MIG-31 DH News MOD Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Nottingham,UK Posts: 42,574 Rep Power: 185 System Specs	Western Digital 640GB - Twice the Platters, Twice the Fun Western Digital's emphasis on recent product releases has been the consumer oriented GreenPower family of products. That all changed last month with the release of the Caviar SE16 320GB drives featuring their new 320GB per-platter technology. We previewed this drive and came away impressed by its excellent thermals, power management, and acoustics but depressed by performance that was not any better than previous generation drives featuring 166GB~200GB per-platter designs. We have an answer to our performance-induced depression but that will have to wait for page two. ____________ Source: Anandtech __________________ Please Post Your News Submissions Here How you can help DriverHeaven by using Digg!

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