Western Digital Caviar Black WD 1001 FALS

Western Digital hard drives make its presence felt by everyone, who is in need of a high capacity storage device. The world of multimedia and gaming is growing on and there is a huge demand for high storage hard drives in order to store huge set of files and folders.

Caviar Black WD 1001

Caviar Black WD 1001

This demand made Western Digital to launch its Caviar Black WD 1001 FALS hard drive with a capacity of 1tera byte [TB]. This Western Digital caviar black 1001 fals drives combines strong mechanical architecture and high performance electronic architecture to solve storage demands for gaming machines and completely loaded PC’s.

Unique caviar black series from Western Digital:

Western Digital’s caviar series of hard drives are available in three colours namely green, blue and black. The first two products mainly focus on eco-friendly measures and power saving features. Whereas the caviar black series of hard drives focus mainly on the performance of the drive in order to satisfy users needs.

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Western Digital Green Caviar 3TB Hard Drive – The Future is Here

In these times, you might not notice it but media files, applications, games and even operating systems are memory hugging. Western Digital now presents a hard drive that could solve these issues – Western Digital Green Caviar 3TB Hard Drive – a pioneer in this technology.

WD Green Caviar 3TB

WD Green Caviar 3TB

WD Green Caviar is about an inch tall and 5.8 inch thick with model number of WD30EZRSDTL. It has a total of 3TB memory and a cache size of 64MB. It has an interface of 3.0Gb/s, average seek time of 15ms and average latency time of 5.5ms. It is built with an ultra dense four 3.5 inches of 750GB platters.

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Western Digital Caviar SE16 750 GB Hard Drive Review

Western digital is focusing a lot on manufacturing low power consumption products in order to meet the requirements of PC users all over the world. Every possible aspect of hardware and drives are optimized in order to consume low power during operation and especially during idle time. The intelliseek technology of western digital enables lower power consumption and reduces the level of noise created by drive operation. IntelliSeek actuates the actuators exactly when it is required for operation. Western digital officials claim that these advantages did not result by slowing the sleek times. This power saving option never compromises the performance of the drive.

western digital caviar SE 16 750GB

Western Digital caviar SE 16 750GB

Apart from this, 750GB capacity of the drive gives an additional boost to pc enthusiasts. 750GB is packed in 4 perpendicular platters. Reliability is enhanced with internal supports. Each perpendicular platter consists of 188GB. The drive feature 16MB of cache and spindle speed is 7200rpm. Perpendicular magnetic technology is used to store data. In perpendicular recording technology, the data is stored vertically unlike traditional horizontal way. This enables the drive to have increased areal density.

Specification of western digital caviar SE 16 750GB hard drive:

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Transcend SSD18M solid-state drive (128GB) Review

Transcend manufactures portable storage devices like pen drives, external hard drives, etc. at affordable costs. Transcend SSD 18M is a solid-state hard drive which has static parts to store data. The portability of Transcend SSD 18M is an additional bonus. The 128 GB Transcend SSD 18M costs around $440, but it’s worth for the faster transfer speeds, eSata/USB combo and the small foot print.

Transcend SSD18M

Transcend SSD18M

Design specification and features present in Transcend SSD 18M:

Transcend SSD 18M has a subtle design and many other have no idea of what design it is. It has a glossy diamond finish on a black plastic. The logo of Transcend appears in one corner. It covers 8 cm by length, 1.25cm by width and 5cm by height. It contains eSATA and USB port on one side of the drive. Entire weight of this hard drive is 50grams. Dynamic parts and spinning plates are absent in SSD, which proves to be a greater advantage to hard drives. SSD 18M uses a NAND flash memory to save data, which is reliable and offers faster throughput and lesser power consumption. This hard drive contains no software and Windows XP, Windows Vista and Mac OS X supports this hard drive. 32GB, 64GB and 128GB capacity hard drives are available in 1.8inch transcend SSD 18M.

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