WD 1TB Now With 334GB Platters

WD 1TB Now With 334GB Platters

Friday, May 23, 2008 - by Chad Weirick
Western Digital has quietly updated their 1TB offering to feature three 334GB platters, thus reducing the amount of platters by one.

“That means less power is needed and less moving parts are required to make the drive operate.  Impress is reporting that Western Digital has quietly updated its Caviar GP line of drives in Asia with a platter density of 334GB in the 1TB capacity drive.  Other features of the drive remain the same with a 16MB cache.”

While lower power is certainly noteworthy, we’re also interested in seeing the performance gains with the trio of higher density platters.  WD seems to be on a roll lately, first they released the new Velociraptor drives and now they've improved their 1TB models.  We can hardly wait to see what's next.
Via: DailyTech | News Archive | Tags: ATT, WD, 4G, TB, 1tb, GB, now, PLA
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By amdcrankitup on May 23, 2008

Western Digital means performance and the fact that they reduce the drive by one platter would lead me to beleive there would be a gain.Im looking forward to HH getting their hands on one to see the results. Maybe I can sport one of these in my rig,along with a raptor when I do a new build.

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By SqUiD267 on May 23, 2008

 I'm still waitng for the Velociraptor to appear in newegg.

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By Super Dave on May 23, 2008

Test! Test! Test! Test!

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By Crisis Causer on May 23, 2008

Hah, what are you testing, Super Dave?

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By amdcrankitup on May 24, 2008

Well if this WD works out all I would need is one raptor for my OS and this 1TB monster and I would be good to go!

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