youm0nt Veteran Posted January 22, 2003 Veteran Share Posted January 22, 2003 Western Digital Corp. today announced that it is shipping its next-generation 80 Gbyte-per-platter technology, which will produce PC hard drives that can store up to 250 Gbytes. http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973...3,838851,00.asp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Posted January 22, 2003 Share Posted January 22, 2003 Western Digital Corp. today announced that it is shipping its next-generation 80 Gbyte-per-platter technology, which will produce PC hard drives that can store up to 250 Gbytes.http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973...3,838851,00.asp Take That Maxtor!!!! WESTERN DIGITAL SHIPPING 80 GB-PER-PLATTER TECHNOLOGY THAT YIELDS 250 GB HARD DRIVES -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAKE FOREST, Calif. - Jan. 21, 2003 -Western Digital Corp. (NYSE: WDC) today announced that it is shipping its next-generation 80 GB-per-platter technology, which yields PC hard drives that can store up to 250 GB. This new hard drive technology adds 25% capacity to Western Digital's popular WD Caviar? 200 GB hard drive, which was based on 67 GB-per-platter technology. WD Caviar 7,200 RPM 80 GB-per-platter hard drives began shipping last month. WD Caviar 80-per-platter GB hard drives are offered in single and multi-platter designs in capacities of 80, 120, 160, 200 and 250 GB. By leveraging its 80 GB-per-platter technology to 83 GB-per-platter and using three platters, Western Digital is able to achieve 250 GB capacity. Shipment of the multi-platter hard drives, including the flagship WD Caviar 250 GB, is expected next month. WD Caviar Special Edition hard drives equipped with 80 GB-per-platter technology is anticipated to be available next month. These drives feature an 8 MB cache size, which is four times larger than the industry standard 2 MB cache size and are covered under warranty for a three-year period. "Western Digital continues to offer the high performance and large capacity demanded by its customers by offering a quarter terabyte of storage in its successful WD Caviar product," said Dave Reinsel, research manager at market research firm IDC. "The shift to 80 GB-per-platter technology is an important transition for the hard drive industry that will have a long-lasting impact and provide end users a broad range of capacities to meet their storage needs." "Maintaining its focused approach of providing the highest quality, performance and reliability to its customers, Western Digital is delivering 80 GB-per-platter technology now that the platform meets these important standards," said Richard E. Rutledge, vice president of marketing at Western Digital. "Eighty GB-per-platter, combined with our unique expertise in high capacity 7,200 RPM hard drives, is now the best technology to bring to market the next-generation biggest and fastest hard drives."> http://www.wdc.com/company/releases/PressR...sp?release=1450 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JnCoKiLLa Posted January 22, 2003 Share Posted January 22, 2003 this should be on the front not the back page news Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uniacid Posted January 22, 2003 Share Posted January 22, 2003 nice finally 250 :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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