Monday, June 4th 2007
WesternDigital Ships 750GB Caviar Desktop Hard Drives
Western Digital starts shipping today the high-capacity 750GB Serial ATA II WD Caviar SE16 desktop-class hard drives. Ideal for data-intensive applications, high-performance computing and multimedia systems, the WD Caviar SE16 750GB drives deliver high performance with 3Gb/s transfer rate, Perpendicular Magnetic Recording (PMR) technology, 16MB cache and Native Command Queuing (NCQ). WD Caviar SE16 750GB (model WD7500AAKS) hard drives may be ordered on the company's online store and through select distributors and resellers. Manufacturer's Suggest Retail Price (MSRP) for the WD Caviar SE16 750GB is $249 USD. More information about WD Caviar desktop drives may be found on the company's Web site here.
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20 Comments on WesternDigital Ships 750GB Caviar Desktop Hard Drives
$0.33/gig isn't too bad for 750GB in one drive. Can't wait to see the 1TBs though.
Seagate=Western Digital>Samsung>>Hitachi>>>Maxtor
I'll buy either Seagates or Western Digital, but pretty much nothing else. I have 3 WD drives in my machine main machine, and a Seagate, along with another 2 Seagates. I have had a few drives from both companies fail, it happens with any company, but both treated me very well when I RMA'd them. WD even extened my warranty on a failed drive and RMA'd it for free because it failed a few months after the warranty expired.
I have use all brands of hard drives, and the only brand to fail on me is no longer around... Quantum Fireballs were awful!!! I had to replace countless Quantum hard drives several years back.
Can't wait for their T7K1000 series to be readily available here.
Western Digital or Seagate. I stick with WD because i've had a few Seagate drives die with me using them...only one of them was mine, so that was a problem.
My 120gb WD died the DAY after the warranty expired. You said they extended the warranty for you!?!? I never even called them. That sucks. It's only been a few months since it died...maybe I should call them.
Anyway...exactly what are the AAJS and AAKS drives from Western Digital? Perpendicular or just 160gb platter size? Or both...:wtf:
As for drive preference, I've had good luck with Seagate, WD, and Hitatchi. I have both Seagates and WDs around here that are over 5 years old and still goin strong. I have a hitachi in my G5 that's 4yrs old.
With Maxtor, on the other hand, I've had nothing but bad luck. Every maxtor I ever owned lasted less that 2yrs. 2 lasted less than 9 months.