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500GB harddrive released by Western Digital

Published March 6th, 2006 in components, computers and uncategorized. 1 Comment

Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB SATA2 16MB 7200RPM. 500GB is a a nice capacity, and westerndigital.com even says…

Whisper quiet – These highly reliable drives deliver technologically advanced acoustics. With its WhisperDrive™ and SoftSeek™ technologies, WD has minimized noise to levels virtually imperceptible to the human ear in home and business environments.

But I’d only believe that when I hear it, I have four WD’s at the moment in the 160 - 320GB range and all have a whine that increases and decreases in intensity every second. I’ll never buy a Western Digital Harddrive again, well unless it was very cheap!


I’ve already written off Quantum after 3 aptly named fireballs of different capacity gave a click of death back in 2001.

Seagate seems to have the quietest drives. I’d recommend the Seagate Barracuda 7200 500GB SATA2 16MB 7200RPM, I’d but it myself but I’m saving for a flatpanel because my CRT is whining. Continue reading ‘500GB harddrive released by Western Digital’

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