Testseek.co.uk have collected 55 expert reviews of the Western Digital Caviar SE16 SATA300 WD-AAKS Series and the average rating is 86%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Western Digital Caviar SE16 SATA300 WD-AAKS Series.
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The WD640 is a highly viable alternative to the Samsung F1 750GB and 1TB drives, which appear to be their natural competitors. None of the other drive makers have released drives with greater than 300GB/platter areal density. The WD640 is the equal of...
Very Fast Performance, Extremely Low Noise Operation
Three Year Warranty Rather than Five Years
The Western Digital Cavier SE16 640GB improves on the already impressive performance of the Caviar SE16 series. With its 320GB platters, the drive gets an additional performance boost from increase data density, uses less power from having to spin up l...
Abstract: Unlike their Caviar GP hard drives, the Caviar SE16 drives are performance-grade desktop hard drives. As such, they have platters that spin at full 7200 RPM. Coupled with their use of perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR), the higher spindle speed all...
The second sample Western Digitals SE16 Caviar WD3200AAKS-00B3A0 is pretty much what we hoped it would be: A hard drive quiet enough for silent PC enthusiasts. Its single platter design and optimization for low noise seem to have worked, at least in ...
Abstract: The big story on the WD Caviar SE16 640GB 7K (WD6400AAKS) is that uses 320GB per-platter technology. Perpendicular Magnetic Recording (PMR) translates to greater density. Anandtech wrote "This type of areal density places WD in direct competition with ...
Abstract: March 26, 2008 By Vince Freeman Although we experienced a relatively sharp spike in data capacity, the Serial ATA hard drive market has been stalled at the one Terabyte level. All the major competitors have hit the fabled 1TB mark, but as is often the cas...
Although the Caviar SE16 640GB doesnt break new ground in storage capacity, platter density, or cache size, Western Digital has struck a good balance between those elements and delivered perhaps the most capable 3.5" hard drive weve ever tested. Thro...
Test Setup Theres not too much to say about the test platform except its fast. We are utilizing Vista 64-bit SP1 as our OS of choice now. We are still in the process of comparing our NVIDIA-based setup to the Intel X48 for future drive articles. How...
Test Setup - Not too much to say about the test platform except it is generally fast and we are utilizing Vista 64 SP1 as our OS of choice now. This platform is slightly different from our standard test bed as we are in the process of comparing o...
