New 200GB Western Digital Hard Drives


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I was just at Western Digital's website looking for stats on the 8MB cache version of the 80GB hard drive when I saw this...

WESTERN DIGITAL DELIVERS INDUSTRY?S LARGEST, FASTEST HARD DRIVES WITH 200 GB CAPACITY AND 7,200 RPM b>

WD Caviar? 60 GB-Per-Platter Family Satisfies Today?s Need for Speed and Capacity

LAKE FOREST, Calif., Jun 25, 2002 ? Continuing to lead the 7,200 RPM market with its WD Caviar? family, Western Digital Corp (NYSE: WDC) today introduced the industry?s largest capacity hard drive ? its WD Caviar 200 GB 7,200 RPM product. This milestone marks the fourth consecutive first-to-market 7,200 RPM hard drive delivered by Western Digital ? which was first to deliver 7,200 RPM hard drives in 80, 100 and 120 GB capacities.

WD Caviar 60 GB-per-platter 7,200 RPM hard drives will be offered in capacities ranging from 120 to 200 GB and will be available this July. To ensure quiet operation in noise-sensitive desktop/work station environments, Western Digital offers hard drives equipped with optional fluid dynamic bearing (FDB) motors.

?Hard drive manufacturers are providing incredible levels of performance and capacity to the PC market, as well as to today?s emerging markets demanding massive local storage such as personal video recorders,? said Mark Geenen, president of TrendFocus, a research firm specializing in the data storage market ?Western Digital successfully focuses on the highest capacity and highest performance EIDE hard drives, and delivers another first with 200 gigabytes.?

?Continued demand for the exceptional performance of 7,200 RPM hard drives at the highest capacities makes these hard drives an ideal choice for computing needs that range from top-of-the-line desktops and work stations to high-end IDE applications such as entry-level enterprise servers,? said Richard E Rutledge, vice president of marketing for Western Digital.

Western Digital, one of the storage industry?s pioneers and long-time leaders, provides products and services for people and organizations that collect, manage and use digital information. The Company produces reliable, high-performance hard drives that keep users? data close-at-hand and secure from loss.

Western Digital was founded in 1970. The Company's storage products are marketed to leading systems manufacturers and selected resellers under the Western Digital brand name. Visit the Investor section of the Company?s Web site (www.westerndigital.com) to access a variety of financial and investor information.

This release contains forward-looking statements, including statements relating to the availability of the WD Caviar 60 GB-per-platter hard drives. These forward-looking statements are based on current management expectations, and actual results may differ materially as a result of several factors, including: uncertainties related to the development and introduction of products based on new technologies; manufacturing ramp and customer acceptance; pricing, competition, the significant uncertainty of market acceptance of new products; and other factors discussed in Western Digital?s recent SEC filings. Western Digital undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances occurring after the date of the statements.

http://www.wdc.com/company/releases/PressR...sp?release=1404

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It would be great to own one. My 60 gig is only couple % free but that's only because I keep burning and burning. Heh, all them other crap I have no clue how to burn them in an ordered and indexed way.

But with a 200 gig... at least it will last some time more till I will have to burn burn and burn!

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