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Advances in New Western Digital Drives

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the holy-wars-and-hard-drives dept.

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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  1. Advances that aren't being rivaled? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Is the poster serious? Hard drive performance is one of the slowest areas of advancement in PCs there is. Granted that there's legitimate reasons for that, but to say that because its got a bigger cache we're seeing advances not seen anywhere else is laughable.

    Compare a video card from today to one two years ago, and do the same thing with hard drives. The amount of "advancement" in the video cards far outpaces the drives, except for the really big drives that can store weeks worth of pr0n at once.

  2. Big, Slow Drives by jimmyhat3939 · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Note to hard-drive manufacturers:

    Please come out with a larger, slower drive for those masses of us who want to store very large quantities of data but don't care so much about 7,200 RPM or large cache sizes and whatnot.

    When will the 1TB hard drive come out? When oh when?
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