I am looking forward to Western Digital's new GP revision that uses 333GB platters (WD10EACS-00D6B0). I expect measurable gains in performance and power consumption comapred to the current edition that uses 250GB platters. It's nice to hear that a variant with 7200RPM spindle speed (the "Black" one) is also in the works.

When I can already get a consumer 750GB drive for $120 - $150, or an enterprise 750GB for $150 - $180, what is this 750GB drive going to give me that $200 even sounds half reasonable?

$250 for the 1TB drive isn't exactly an appealing offer either...

I'd still rather have Seagates 750 or 1tb drive. And considering I have 4 Seagate 750's... I see no ned in buying a WD drive.

I wonder how they get to 750GB with 333 GB platters...

Funny, I thought WD specifically rejected 32MB buffer in the 6400AAKS because it didn't bring a useful performance increase. Marketing bullet-point hype feature or useful this time? Can't wait to see the tests. I do however wish they'd launch a full-performance Black in 333GB form. I'd rather buy a few smaller/cheaper drives due to lower platter count for RAID in my main rig and have sufficiently speedy large drives in a file server. btw where will the 6400AAKS fall within this scheme?

Now I wonder why there aren't any 1.33TB drives. There have been 300GB+ platters for plenty long and 4 platter drives are standard for other platter densities.

There's gotta be a joke about the black drives being the fastest, but I just can't find it. :wink:

WD Caviar® Black™ 1 TB, 3 Gb/s, 32 MB Cache
Key Features: High Performance Electronics Architecture

# Dual processor - Twice the processing power to maximize performance.

# 32 MB cache - Bigger, faster cache means faster performance.

That's something worth mentioning but wasn't, dual core for HD's

Isn't caviar normally black?

I'm pretty sure I would know what to do if ever saw caviar in a blue or a green tint: double-ZipLock and chuck.

Is there special mobo when combined with an AMD "Black" CPU?

So: Black is the new Titanium, which was the new Platinum, which was the new Gold... and they're all the new Extreme?

you get 750GB with 2.5 platters 2 plateers give you 666GB and 1/2 platter gives you the additional 151.5GB so add the two together and you get required space

"WD claims the Black will be the fastest terabyte hard drive on the market"

you mean like the other previous drives? its like drawing a straight line down in the benchmarks.

in lieu with other companies using the "Black" monicre...namely car tuner AMG and chip maker AMD...i'm just connecting the dots :D it's fun hehe