Advances in New Western Digital Drives

An anonymous reader writes "The Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD2500KS 250 GB hard drive has 300 MB/sec transfer rate the drive has a monster 16 MB cache, both of which should make it one of the best performing 7200 RPM drives on the market. WD categorizes this drive in the "Highest Performance" section of its desktop market, so its safe to assume that is has solid performance without the expense of an enterprise level drive. With products like this available, advances are being made in the storage industry that are not being rivalled by those in other areas of computing, especially considering the price level of this drive."

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Nice ad

[Anonymous Coward]

I wonder how do paying subscribers feel about seeing ads before everyone else!

Thank you

[agrippa_cash]

Thank you Slashdot, for bringing to my attention this exciting new service or product!

Oh puhleeese

[$RANDOMLUSER]

A 3-platter 8.9mS seek-time 7200 RPM drive with a 16MB cache? You better use this puppy for video files, 'cause the only thing that's more tuned for sequential access is a tape drive.

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[TubeSteak]

1. I don't like the warranty
2. I've had bad experiences with WD drives
3. I've had great experiences with WD drives
4. 250 GB isn't really 250 GB*
5. This review isn't comparing similar drives
6. My RAID array is faster
7. RAID-0 isn't really redundant

And my quick summary of the aritcle:
$125 (50 cents per GB)
SATA
Not the fastest drive on the market

*In this case, the formatted drive really does hold 250 GB

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[imsabbel]

Its getting more and more annoying...
So this drive is great... says WD.
So obviously is MUST be great.

And i really like reading that it has a 16" monster cock... ^h^h^h^h^h^..^h 16Mbyte monster cache. You can really feel the journalistic integrity OOZING out between the letters. I mean, thats SOO great considering that currently my windows uses 360Mbyte as file cache, connected with 6.4Gbyte/s.

And a 250Gbyte drive is SOOOO revolutionary. I mean, thats the smell of the future. Almost as if we were already in the 3rd millenium.... oh wait, we ARE there, and drives of this size have been around for 2.5years+ already.

And Sata-2 transfer limits are SOOOO useful as a dazzling number when your drive barely reaches 70Mbyte on the outermost tracks for the first Gbyte.

Product quality

[Mr Smidge]

Great! Now when can we expect similarly advanced levels of production and refinement in the spelling and grammatical skills of our summary writers?

Re:Advances that aren't being rivaled?

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

Compare a video card from today to one two years ago, and do the same thing with hard drives.

I'm trying, but really the VGA plug won't fit the IDE connector. I'm so confused...

Re:Interesting Fact

[discord5]

Not if they can plug it on slashdot for free. 30% marketing reduction cost guaranteed.