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1TB Caviar GP 3.5" Internal SATA Hard Drive For Desktops From Western Digital

Posted by on Mar 10, 2008 | 2 Comments

There should be an image here!The 1TB Caviar GP 3.5″ Internal SATA Hard Drive for Desktops from Western Digital is a high-capacity internal drive. Boasting a Serial ATA interface that allows for burst transfer rates of up to 300MB/ sec, a large 16MB data buffer, and a rotation speed of 7200rpm, this drive is an excellent solution for adding storage capacity to your desktop workstation.

Special price: $239.95 + shipping

Any Gnomies have a take on this product? Good or bad, we’d love to hear about it! Comments are absolutely welcome.

  • http://www.catii.com Ken Goldstein

    I’ve always liked Western Digital hard-drives, Chris, but for the past 18 months, I’ve found that the failure rate has sky-rocketed. My clients work in high-end CAD, digital video, & multimedia, so I not only demand a high MTBF (mean time between failures), but also high reliability. With a terabyte of data, the last thing you want is to come in one morning to find things going “clack, clack, clack” in your computer!

    I’ve thus switched over to Seagate &, in fact, just today ordered one of their ST310005N1A1AS-RK 1 TB SATA/300 drives with 32 MB buffer & 7200 rpm that I found on Bensbargains.net . Frys.com has them at $235.00 plus $6.00 shipping. This will help immensely on two video projects that we just were awarded.

    Keep up the good work!

    Aloha!

    Ken Goldstein, Ph.D.
    Computer-Aided Technologies
    Kaneohe, Hawaii

  • Paul Campbell

    Sorry I was wrong. It is a four platter drive whose claim to fame seems to be lower power consumption acheived by varying the speed between 5400 and 7200 rpm when approriate.