Western Digital Ships 100 GB 7.2K RPM Hard Drive

Hard drives have been getting bigger and faster for a long time, but this latest push we've seen toward size and speed is probably in anticipation of pulling movies and other content off broadband connections. Slap a desktop hard drive in a set-top box and voila, you've got a digital VCR that can store movies, music, and anything else you can think of. Western Digital is now putting forth a 7,200 RPM three-platter EIDE hard drive that will give you 100 GB of digital storage, and says it will be shipping the new Caviar drives this month. OK, here we go with the convergence theory. WD says the new drives can store a combination of 1,800 digital photos, 4 hours of digital video, 40 hours of digital music downloads, 18 digital games, and 30 software programs. Remember when they used to talk about capacity in terms of Windows + applications? WD now has 7,200 RPM 30, 40, 60, 80 and 100 GB capacity models. Pricing info has not yet been streamed to us.