Today
Western Digital announced a 750GB addition to its Caviar SE16 line of
desktop hard drives. The new WD7500AAKS uses perpendicular recording technology
to cram 188GB onto each of the drive's four platters, giving it an areal density
similar to Seagate's 750GB Barracuda 7200.10. As one might expect, the new
Caviar is equipped with a 300MB/s Serial ATA interface, support for Native
Command Queuing, and a 16MB cache. Drives will be available starting today
through Western Digital's online store for $249, and should start popping up at
other online retailers, as well.