WD5000AAKS-00M9A0
http://akiba-pc.watch.impress.co.jp/...mage/stwd1.jpghttp://akiba-pc.watch.impress.co.jp/...mage/stwd2.jpg
http://akiba-pc.watch.impress.co.jp/...c5000aaks.html
Printable View
About time... Hope 1TB and 1.5TB will be available tho. With the prices of HDDs today it's not worth buying a 500GB only. Hoping to see some numbers soon, last time the single platter was marginally slower than the 2x at least in access though.
Liked more the exterior design for WD6400AAKS but it's not like I would be staring at a HDD. It looks like it is thicker sealed tho, could perhaps be even more silent.
Is this a single platter drive? WD5000AAKS are available for quite a long time now.
WD has a habit of revising the hardware without changing the product designation.
Interesting. I would like 2 Caviar Black 1 TB drives with 2 500GB platters and 32MB Cache with the dual processors from the 640GB drives.
I'm dying for high-end 500GB-platter drives. I don't want'em BLUE, I want BLACK!!! :D
But honestly, seeing WD soon to be releasing one of these, I pray Hitachi doesn't stall too long. They're E7K1000 HDDs work extremely well for me, shame it took so long to release these 1/3TB platter drives
WD Caviar Green 1TB, 2 x 500GB PlattersQuote:
Originally Posted by Aerou
Blue and Black 1TB, 2 x 500GB Platters on the way?
I'm tired of Black, it's time for me to go Blue. :D
sorry for resurrecting this thread, but I'm curious does anyone know has WD implemented single platter tech on their WD5001AALS Black Caviars?
Just wondering, would it be possible to have a high density platter @ 10k rpm or would that be too unstable? Just think of the possibilities of a 1tb (2*500gb platters) raptor for storage and a 80gb Intel SSD for OS/games.
I've been keeping my eyes out for any new revisions of any WD drives. So far I picked up a WD10EADS-00P8B0, which is a new revision comparing it to the drives Micro Center had in stock before the truck they got in the other day, and it only does 60 mb/sec avg. read...slower than hell. Doesn't break 30c after thrashing about for quite a while though. In other words, is this thing defective or just plain out slow and lazy?Quote:
Originally Posted by Nedjo
The WD5000AAKS single platter versions are doing about 110-120 mb/sec avg. read in HD tach. Older 2 platter models were doing between 80-90 from what i've seen. NO blacks yet...
Time for me to get a WD10EARS. The model number alone is enough for me to want one.
Kinda opposite to Nvidia, no?:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Oberon
Seems obvious WD is not run by marketing guys!:D
Western Digital Caviar Blue WD10EALS 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB is available @newegg
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822136534
This is the 500GB platter drive right?Quote:
Originally Posted by onethreehill
Oh come on! I want to take this green back now!