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Western Digital has expanded the capacity of its two-platter, 3.5-inch desktop hard drives all the way out to 640 GB, enabling media mavens and RAID fanatics everywhere to cram even more bits, bytes, and streams into their racks, desktop systems, and media servers. the new WD Caviar SE16s offer 3 Gb/s data transfer rates, 16 MB of cache, and 7,200 rpm speeds—with quiet operation and low heat emissions.

“The 640 GB capacity point will be an important one for our desktop customers, and WD is leading high-volume shipments to the channel and OEM customers,” said Western Digital general manager and VP Don Bennett, in a statement. “Two-platter hard drives have always been the perfect balance of value, capacity and performance for many of our customers.”

Notebook drives, though perpetually smaller than their desktop equivalents, still manage to grow seemingly by the month, despite those tiny 2.5-inch confines. Western Digital’s Scorpio line felt that growth on Thursday, with a growth spurt from 250GB of storage in its largest drive to 320GB.

The Scorpio 320GB spins at 5400 RPM and can push data at up to 3Gb/s thanks to a SATA connection. Western Digital also claims that the drive’s proprietary features make it not only capacious but extremely quiet and cool. It uses Western Digital’s IntelliSeek technology, which calculates seek speeds to supposedly cut down on noise and vibration.  Read more...

There’s just no limit to how much data you can pack into a 3-and-a-half-inch-wide slot, it seems. Western Digital announced its Caviar SE16 drives on Monday, which sport a whopping 750GB of storage capacity. Besides the huge amount of data the drives  hold, they’re capable of moving it at 3GB per second via a Serial ATA (SATA) interface, and come with a 16MB cache.