Western Digital prepping SATA 6Gbps Caviar Blue HDDs

Posted on Monday, May 17 2010 @ 16:31 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck

TC Mag received word that Western Digital will soon introduce three Caviar Blue series hard disk drives with the SATA 6Gbps interface.

Currently the company is only selling one SATA 6.0 Gbps HDD, the WD2001FASS 1TB Caviar Black.

WD's 6.0 Gbps-supporting Caviar Blue series drives come in a 3.5-inch form factor and in 320GB, 500GB and 640GB capacities, they boast 32MB of cache, make use of the Advanced Format technology (4096-byte sectors), and can be recognized by their suffix - AALX (WD6400AALX for example).

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