Western Digital has just announced it has started delivery of its WD Caviar SE16 640 GB (WD6400AAKS) hard drive. This capacity is nothing exceptional in and of itself; however, it is attained using only 2 platters or 320 GB each.
Only Samsung offers drives with the same density on its SpinPoint F1 series which uses 320 to 333 GB platters on the 320, 640 and 1 TB versions (others use 250 GB platters). You may recall, the SpinPoint F1 1 TB was the top drive in our last hard drive survey.
Western Digital has just announced it has started delivery of its WD Caviar SE16 640 GB (WD6400AAKS) hard drive. This capacity is nothing exceptional in and of itself; however, it is attained using only 2 platters or 320 GB each.