Enthusiasts get Raptor instead of Caviar
News It offers less storage capacity than Western Digital's Caviar line of desktop drives, which range from 30GB to 250GB. A similarly priced 160GB Caviar Special Edition drive, which rotates at 7,200 rpm, offers an average latency of 4.2 milliseconds...
[May 13, 2003, 15:20]
Western Digital offers new Caviar platter
News The three-platter 3.5-inch WD Caviar 4Gb drive will be followed by one and two platter models later, starting with a 1.2Gb single-platter model. The drive has an average seek time of 12ms and can transfer data at up to 16.6Mb/sec.
[December 11, 1996, 13:34]
Western Digital launches 2TB hard drive
News Western Digital has launched the first 2TB internal hard disk drive, as the latest addition to its WD Caviar Green series. Caviar Green is Western Digital's range of "environmentally friendly" HDDs. The latest addition to Western Digital's Caviar...
[January 27, 2009, 16:01]
Western Digital debuts Serial ATA hard disks
News By comparison, Western Digital's top-of-the-line Caviar PC hard drive offers capacity of up to 200GB but rotates at 7,200rpm and offers a 2MB buffer. A special-edition Caviar drive does offer an 8MB buffer.
[February 11, 2003, 8:30]
Western Digital ships high-speed 2TB hard drive
News The new 2TB drives, announced on Tuesday, are the Western Digital Caviar Black and Western Digital RE4. According to Western Digital, the Caviar Black is designed for desktops, while the RE4 is suited to servers and network storage devices.
[September 3, 2009, 14:57]
News Burst: Faulty chips prompt hard disk recall
News The company admitted that there were reliability issues with its WD Caviar 6.8GB-per-platter desktop hard drive series, which includes drives ranging in capacity from 6.4 to 20.5GB. The problem, revealed during long-term predictive lab testing...
[October 1, 1999, 11:57]
'Drivezilla' has monster 200GB storage
News The company began shipping the hard drive -- part of its new family of Caviar drives ranging from 120GB to 200GB -- in small numbers over the past week. Western Digital's 200GB "Drivezilla" is about to stomp its way into desktop PCs.
[July 30, 2002, 9:56]
Hitachi ships fastest 2TB disk drive
News The Deskstar 7K2000 competes with devices such as Seagate's 2TB Barracuda LP drive, which operates at 5,900 rpm, and Western Digital's 2TB Caviar Green drive, which runs at 5,400 rpm. Western Digital has published promotional material in Japan...
[August 6, 2009, 15:45]
Patent nonsense revisited
Blog Comment What 'unreasonable' and 'fairly' actually mean is another reason for the high level of caviar and champagne poisoning among patent lawyers). One aspect of patent law is that patent holders are required to license their patents fairly - you can't...
[January 30, 2008, 19:18]
Dell Dimension 4300 review
Reviews The 40GB Western Digital Caviar hard drive is a 7,200rpm model. The Dimension 4300 uses Dell's new case design, which opens out like a clamshell to allow access to the internal components. You need to place the unit on its side to do this, but once...
[October 31, 2001, 23:00]
Dell Dimension 8200 review
Reviews The massive 100GB Western Digital WD1000 Caviar hard drive is a 7,200rpm Ultra-ATA/100 unit. Our review model was fitted with Intel's 850 chipset supported by 256MB of PC800 RDRAM, and had Windows 2000 Professional installed.
[September 20, 2001, 0:00]
Vista 30 Days After Install
Blog Hard Drive: 250GB Western Digital Caviar SE16 Sata 2 Hard Drive Below is an article I published on my own blog (www.gadgettastic.com) about a week ago, with my experience in updgrading to Vista. Its exactly 30 days since I installed Vista on my PC...
[May 24, 2007, 19:50]
Netgear SC101 Storage Central review
Reviews However, with the single Western Digital Caviar WD800 hard drive that Netgear provided for testing, the SC101 was the slowest small office/home office NAS box we've seen to date at writing a 400MB folder of mixed file types as well as a 1.9GB...
[October 19, 2005, 9:45]
InterVideo DVD Copy review
Reviews In all cases, our testbed was configured with a 2.5GHz Pentium 4 processor, 512MB of PC800 RDRAM and a 7,200rpm Western Digital Caviar hard drive. Making personal backups of DVDs is a highly controversial topic that is still being tested in the...
[September 22, 2003, 12:20]
