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500GB Hard Drive from Western Digital

by , 12:35 PM EST, January 26th, 2006

Western Digital announced the immediate availability of its WD Caviar SE16 500GB internal hard drive on Thursday. The drive uses an SATA interface, spins at 7200 RPM, includes a 16MB cache, and offers data transfer speeds at 300MB/second. The WD Caviar SE16 drive is priced at US$349.99 at the Western Digital Web site.

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Thu Jan 26, 2006 3:40 pm Subject: oh the humanity
Close Name:Small White Car Posts: 1953 Joined: 02 Jul 2004
Thu Jan 26, 2006 3:57 pm Subject: Re: oh the humanity

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They shouild sell them in pairs so you can mirror it. Just about every WD I've own has crashed. Imagine loosing up to 500 GB of photos, music, video, personal docs... It bites. Even with a mirrow, it's a major pain to tranfer everything to a new mirror or stand alone drive. At least they covered the last one under warranty. Gee thanks You forgot to include a blind fold and cigarette.


At one time or another I've seen a post just like this for just about every hard drive company you can name. That's why backups are important...there's no perfect hard-drive company who makes drives that never crash.


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Close Name:Billy K Posts: 297 Joined: 06 May 2004
Thu Jan 26, 2006 4:09 pm Subject: Crash-proof Free

LaCies never crash!

Oops. Did I just jinx myself?


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Close Name:Small White Car Posts: 1953 Joined: 02 Jul 2004
Thu Jan 26, 2006 4:11 pm Subject: Re: Crash-proof Free

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Billy K wrote:
LaCies never crash!

Oops. Did I just jinx myself?


lol, like I was saying...

This is the brand I hear the most complaints about! And yet you seem to be just fine with them. There's not really a "bad brand" out there...just unlucky people.


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Thu Jan 26, 2006 4:15 pm Subject: quantum ruled
Close Name:Small White Car Posts: 1953 Joined: 02 Jul 2004
Thu Jan 26, 2006 4:19 pm Subject: Re: quantum ruled

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I've seen some absolute crap come from seagate to. Their new SATA drives seem to be ok.


That's the problem. What I mean when I say "there aren't bad companies" is really "there are bad companies but it seems to shift from year to year."

Just like computer makers I think a lot of these companies change the places they get their supplies and manufacturing from, so it's impossible to say that company X is bad and company Y is good. Maybe at the exact moment it's true, but it changes so much no one can keep up!


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Thu Feb 22, 2007 4:12 pm Subject: Maxtor SATA II
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