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  • 3.5" Hard Drive Charts

    Tom's Interactive 3.5" Hard Drive Charts compare low-level as well as application performance of more than 40 popular hard drive models. The charts include all popular 3.5" desktop drive manufacturers such as Hitachi, Samsung, Seagate and Western Digital. They list UltraATA and Serial ATA interfaces, 7,200 and 10,000 RPM drives, and capacities between 36 GB and 1000 GB. 15 individual benchmark categories analyze read and write throughput, interface performance, average access time, Windows startup performance and several I/O access patterns that are imperative for server and workstation scenarios. Two comparison features make our Hard Drive Charts unique on the Internet: The Cost per Gigabyte calculation and the Price/Performance Index, which relates performance, capacity and cost. Prices are updated daily using the latest price information provided by TG Stores.

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  • WD Caviar Special Edition SATA 250 GB Hard Drives
    Thursday 12 June 2003 – 07:37
    Western Digital have just announced their new Caviar Special Edition (SE) Serial ATA (SATA) hard drive range, which is not only the world's largest 7,200RPM drive at 250GB with an 8MB buffer, but also includes a number of new technologies.
  • Western Digital Caviar Goes Green – Faster, More Efficient
    Thursday 2 October 2008 – 09:30
    HTPC and Quiet PC users are always fighting the battle towards the Ultimate Quiet and the Lower Power consumption system.
  • WD recalls 400,000 Caviar drives
    Wednesday 29 September 1999 – 06:29
    Western Digital's Caviar drive has laid an egg: The company says it will recall approximately 400,000 of the 6.8GB-per-disk desktop hard drives because of a faulty chip.The chip, which affects the disk drive motor, causes problems to erupt in about six to twelve months, observers said.

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  • WD Caviar GP: The Green 1 TB Drive*
    Thursday 11 October 2007 – 03:13 in Hardware
    WD Caviar GP: The Green 1 TB Drive Western Digital presents its "green" hard drive... Does lower power consumption equal lower performance?
  • The WD Caviar SE16 400 GB Gets Ready to Face The World*
    Monday 3 October 2005 – 07:00
    The new WD top model offers neat features and a whopping 400 GB, but little performance improvement over the 320 GB version. How does it compare to other 400 GB drives?
  • Record-Making Hard Disk: 750 GB Caviar Posts 95 MB/s*
    Friday 6 July 2007 – 02:49 in Hardware
    The new Western Digital Caviar WD7500 hangs in there with the WD Raptor, which despite having a 10,000 RPM spindle is no longer faster than the WD7500's 7,200 RPM in transfer rates. The WD7500 makes great strides forward in other technical areas, too.

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