Western Digital Caviar SE16 S-ATA 400GB Hard Drive

Western Digital quietly released its Caviar SE16 S-ATA hard drives which fly around at 7200 revenues per minute and have 16MB of cache.

Hard drive Caviare thingAverage latency is 4.20ms, read seek time 8.9ms, write seek time 10.9ms, while transfer rates buffer to host is 150MB/s, buffer to disk 748Mbits/s, and buffer to disk 64MB/s.

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