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Western Digital Caviar 16 SE 500GB Hard Drive

Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006 | Hard Drives, News

Hard Drives are quickly increasing in capacity. With the introduction of perpendicular recording technology and tighter spacing on disc platters, hard drives of up to 750GB are coming into the mainstream.

Western Digital’s main claim to fame recently has been it’s Raptor drives, with their exceptionally fast performance they have made server SCSI quality speed available in the desktop market. The introduction of the newer 150GB Raptor and the Raptor X with the window into the workings of the drive have kept consumers smiling.

NCQ, which has still to make its way into all hard drives helps to speed things up by re-ordering reads and writes into the most efficient order, making the most of every rotation of the platter.

In testing at XYZcomputing the drive was found to have pretty average performance. Compared to the Raptor line from WD it certainly did not do as well, but against the competition it did pretty well.

With half a terabyte of storage space, this drives main focus is not on being the quickest of drives, but simply being a drive with a lot of space. In that respect it does well, allowing enough storage space for things you could want today and a certain amount of assurance that you will have enough for at least a year or two to come.

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