Western Digital Infuses Budget Friendly Caviar Blue Line with SATA 6Gbps Interface
Western Digital Infuses Budget Friendly Caviar Blue Line with SATA 6Gbps Interface
Posted 12/08/2010 at 9:34am
| by Paul Lilly
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Western Digital's Caviar Blue line is the cheapest of all the Caviars (which includes Green and Black label drives), which makes the addition of a SATA 6Gbps interface a groovy addition, even if not fully utilized.
"We've added a SATA 6Gbps interface to our award-winning WD Caviar Blue and WD Caviar Black desktop hard drives in capacities from 250GB to 2TB," Western Digital said. "This transition to a SATA 6Gbps interface aligns with the introduction of SATA 6Gbps supporting chipsets and motherboards coming to the market."
As far as the Blue label Caviars are concerned, these come in capacities ranging from 250GB to 1TB with anywhere from 16MB to 32MB of cache. Street pricing ranges from around $45 (250GB) to $80 (1TB).
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HiGHRoLLeR038
December 08, 2010 at 10:46am
whats the point of sataIII on a mechanical hard drive? the reads/writes dont come close to the bandwidth of sataII
SilverSurferNHS
December 08, 2010 at 12:54pm
I think its mainly about uniformally moving forward, due to the fact that the cost is probably minimal.
wortwortwort
December 08, 2010 at 10:34pm
And there are people who think that it will make a difference and are willing ot pay the extra $ 5-10 for it.
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