WD Ships New Large HDDs With Caching Enhancements

22 Dec, 2004 at 10:55pm ET Article published in Tech

Western Digital Corp. unveiled this week its first hard disk drive with capacity exceeding 300GB, following rivals Seagate and Hitachi. The new HDD not only sets a new record for WD in terms of capacity, but also uses a special caching technology that improves performance.

The new WD Caviar SE 320GB features 7200rpm motor, 8MB buffer and 3.5” form-factor. The Caviar 320GB boasts with 748Mb/s buffer to disk transfer rate, 1200Mb/s buffer to host transfer rate, 4.20ms nominal average latency, 8.90ms read seek time, 10.9ms write seek time, 2.0ms track-to-track seek time and 21ms full stroke speed. The new 320GB HDDs will be available for Parallel ATA and Serial ATA interconnections.

WD said it had implemented advanced the caching algorithms in the new and improved Caviar family of hard drives, which makes 8MB buffers as efficient as 16MB buffers.

The Lake Forest, California-based WD did not disclose, which platters are used in the Caviar SE 320GB.

Source: X-Bit Labs

Comments

23 Dec 2004 ~ 2:21am MountainDew one please.
23 Dec 2004 ~ 2:37am shwaip

MountainDew wrote:

one please.

hell...4 please.
23 Dec 2004 ~ 12:57pm yagga what the hell, give it 16mb cache anyway, and drop in some Raptor rotational speed, then I'll take 6.
23 Dec 2004 ~ 1:07pm Straight_Man

D00D wrote:

what the hell, give it 16mb cache anyway, and drop in some Raptor rotational speed, then I'll take 6.

BUT, price would have to go up with better features, sorry.... Maybe 4 such??? BUT, HOPE is good....
23 Dec 2004 ~ 9:54pm danball1976 Oh, I saw some new Maxtor 200GB Serial ATA drives at the BX today. No idea how much they were though.
25 Dec 2004 ~ 7:30pm yagga but see, I have a plan

*shifty eyes*