NEWS: Western Digital to Ship Industries 1st 250GB SATA Hard Drive
Western Digital to Ship Industries 1st 250GB SATA Hard Drive
Press Release
WESTERN DIGITAL TO SHIP INDUSTRY'S FIRST 250 GB SERIAL ATA HARD DRIVE WITH SECURECONNECTTM AND FLEXPOWERTM TECHNOLOGIES
WD CaviarŪ Special Edition Serial ATA Hard Drives Increase Robustness of SATA Cable Connection By More Than 500% While Improving Backward Compatibility
LAKE FOREST, Calif. - June 11, 2003 - Western Digital Corp. (NYSE: WDC) today introduced its WD CaviarŪ Special Edition (SE) Serial ATA (SATA) hard drive, the world's largest 7,200 RPM SATA hard drive. Carrying on the heritage of WD Caviar SE hard drives as industry-leading performers, these new SATA-equipped hard drives feature capacities as large as 250 GB, an 8 MB buffer and three-year warranty, to fill acute demand in market segments such as high-end PC, workstation and entry-level servers.
The Company also introduced its robust SecureConnectTM SATA cable technology, which is designed to solve a weakness of first-generation SATA hard drives and cables by strengthening the drive-cable connection by more than 500%, while ensuring the hard drive maintains backward compatibility with legacy SATA cables and backplanes. This strengthening of the drive-cable connection is intended to eliminate SATA connector breakage as well as reduce the number of related product returns to hard drive makers and systems manufacturers. Also featured on the new WD Caviar SE SATA hard drives is Western Digital's FlexPowerTM technology that accepts a power connection from either the traditional EIDE power connectors - found in virtually all of today's desktop systems - or other currently shipping SATA power supplies. Details and photos of SecureConnect and FlexPower technologies may be found on Western Digital's Web site at
www.westerndigital.com.
