Western Digital launches Digital 1-TB Caviar Black SATA Hard Drive

Monday, December 15, 2008, 10:08
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If you are panting for mega storage capacity for your every growing digital content, take a look at the new Digital Caviar Black 1-TB SATA hard drive, a 3.5-inch 1-terabyte (TB) (1000GB) hard drives, which has been launched by Western Digital taking into account a wide range of enterprise and personal desktop computer users.

The Western Digital Caviar Black 1-TB SATA hard drive claim to provide the users high performance electronics architecture with powerful mechanical structure to bring in more consistent data storage solution on enterprise, desktop, consumer electronics as well as external hard drives. Cool drive operation, no-touch head technology, and only one of its kind vibration protection guarantee better reliability and persistent data throughput.

The Digital Caviar Black 1000-GB SATA hard drive is claimed to be the industry’s state-of-the-art and best-of-the-breed 3.5-inch desktop drive, which comes included with a fast Serial-ATA 3Gb/s NCQ interface making use of a 32-MB buffer with 3-platter of 333-GB capacity each offering a total of 940-GB formatted capacity.

Coming with about 0.7 kgs of weight, 101.6x 147x 25.4 (WxDxH) of dimensions of the Digital Caviar Black 1000-GB SATA hard drive gives the impression of other drives in this segment from Hitachi and Seagate. Besides, this hard drive also comes equipped with vibration protection technology that claims to offer up to 1TB (1000GB) of data storage capacity with 7,200-rpm speeds and average seek times of 8.5 ms.

And we talk of Western TB hard drive consumption capability; it can draw up to 8.40W of power, as opposed to Hitachi’s 1-TB hard drive, which is capable of consuming almost 13.6W. Besides, the 1-TB hard drive comes with only 4 platters which brings about low-power consumption and cool operating temperatures allowing longer hard disk life with lesser possibilities for wear and tear.

Apart from all that the new 1-TB hard drive features WD’s StableTrac technology, WD’s NoTouch technology, Data Lifeguard technology, and all that

Western Digital Caviar Black 1000-GB SATA Hard Drive Features

• 7,200 rpm rotation speed
• 32-MB Cache
• Second-generation perpendicular recording (PMR) technology
• Formatted Storage capacities of 1 TB (1000MB)
• Serial-ATA 3Gb/s NCQ interface
• 3 platters, 333-GB per platter
• 105MB/s sustained data rate
• Average Latency / seek time – 4.16 ms
• Mean Time Before Failure (MTBF, hours) 750,000
• Dimensions (H x L x W ) – 1.028 x 5.787 x 4.0 inch
• Weight – 0.7 Kgs
• 5-year limited warranty

The 1-TB Western Digital Caviar Black hard drive can be availed in India for Rs. 8,900 with one year warranty.