Western Digital starts shipping two platter 3.5″ 640GB Caviar HDD
Western Digital today announced that it is now shipping Caviar SE16 640GB 3.5-inch hard drives based on 320 GB-per-platter technology. According to WD, the Caviar family of 3.5-inch desktop hard drives delivers high performance with 3 Gb/s transfer rate, Native Command Queuing (NCQ), and cool operating temperatures and quiet operation. “The 640 GB capacity point will be an important one for our desktop customers, and WD is leading high-volume shipments to the channel and OEM customers,” said Don Bennett, general manager and vice president of WD’s desktop business unit. “Two-platter hard drives have always been the perfect balance of value, capacity and performance for many of our customers. Today’s common two-platter drives are limited to 500 GB, but we are expanding capacity by 28 percent on the same design with WD’s leading technology heads and disks.”
The firm also intents to deploy the 320 GB-per-platter technology across its desktop, enterprise, consumer electronics and external hard drive product lines throughout this calendar year.
The Caviar SE16 640GB is now available for $140.
