Western Digital 750 GB Caviar SE16 Serial ATA Hard Drive Review

Dashken · 24th May 2008, 09:33 PM

This Western Digital Caviar SE16 family is Western Digital's range of performance-grade desktop hard drives. Unlike their GreenPower (GP) series, the Caviar SE16 hard drives have a spindle speed of 7200 RPM.

Today, we will be taking a close look at their 750 GB Caviar SE16 model. Will it be significantly faster than the 1 TB Caviar GP which impressed us with its high performance, or will the Caviar GP turn out to be a better buy? Read on and find out!

Here's a quote from the review :-

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"Unlike their Caviar GP hard drives, the Caviar SE16 drives are performance-grade desktop hard drives. As such, they have platters that spin at full 7200 RPM. Coupled with their use of perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR), the higher spindle speed allowed the Caviar SE16 to deliver incredibly high transfer rates."

Link : Western Digital 750 GB Caviar SE16 Serial ATA Hard Drive Review

mikegas · 25th May 2008, 12:06 AM

Looks like WD drives kick a$$

I think it wouldn't be fair as there isn't other brand recent drives review available. Some Seagates, Hitachi, Samsung and Fujitsu to the recipe?

As for the Trox screw, need Torx8 for 3.5" and Trox6 for 2.5" available the SS2 DIY's shop for less then RM10 a set

. Of course, WD will void the warranty of the drive if they know that the PCB as been remove before..

Anyway, did expect this drive to out perform the GP version, as GP version is a power saving drive and not a performance drive even though the performance beats some of the other brands

Good review as always ...

Adrian Wong · 25th May 2008, 12:11 AM

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Originally Posted by mikegas

Looks like WD drives kick a$$

I think it wouldn't be fair as there isn't other brand recent drives review available. Some Seagates, Hitachi, Samsung and Fujitsu to the recipe?

As for the Trox screw, need Torx8 for 3.5" and Trox6 for 2.5" available the SS2 DIY's shop for less then RM10 a set

. Of course, WD will void the warranty of the drive if they know that the PCB as been remove before..

Anyway, did expect this drive to out perform the GP version, as GP version is a power saving drive and not a performance drive even though the performance beats some of the other brands

Good review as always ...

Hey, thanks... Bought a set earlier but dang.. the smallest was way too big!

Hmm.. Well, I will be using the Torx screwdriver to fix my IKEA bed...

nearownkira · 25th May 2008, 01:49 AM

any comparison to the 750AACS?

Adrian Wong · 25th May 2008, 01:58 AM

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Originally Posted by nearownkira

any comparison to the 750AACS?

Which model is that???

Do you mean the WD7500AACS which is the 750GB Caviar GP model? Unfortunately, we do not have that model. We only compared it against the 500GB and 1TB model.

Lacus · 25th May 2008, 02:11 AM

wow,nice review o_o! Is it me or you guys always have WD hdd for reviews

Adrian Wong · 25th May 2008, 02:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Lacus

wow,nice review o_o! Is it me or you guys always have WD hdd for reviews

We will go wake Seagate up again.

Mac Daddy · 25th May 2008, 02:49 AM

Nice review and nice looking HD I am still shopping here in bad need of an upgrade soon

Chai · 25th May 2008, 04:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Adrian Wong

Which model is that???

Do you mean the WD7500AACS which is the 750GB Caviar GP model? Unfortunately, we do not have that model. We only compared it against the 500GB and 1TB model.

Yup, AACS is the GP.

lee_what2004 · 25th May 2008, 10:11 PM

between this and GP, which suitable for external usage? or both the same?

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25th May 2008, 12:06 AM	#2 (permalink)
mikegas I'm a regular Join Date: 7 May 2008 Posts: 348 Reputation: 206 Rep Power: 3	Looks like WD drives kick a$$ I think it wouldn't be fair as there isn't other brand recent drives review available. Some Seagates, Hitachi, Samsung and Fujitsu to the recipe? As for the Trox screw, need Torx8 for 3.5" and Trox6 for 2.5" available the SS2 DIY's shop for less then RM10 a set . Of course, WD will void the warranty of the drive if they know that the PCB as been remove before.. Anyway, did expect this drive to out perform the GP version, as GP version is a power saving drive and not a performance drive even though the performance beats some of the other brands Good review as always ...

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nearownkira Just Started Join Date: 18 Jan 2007 Posts: 41 Reputation: 0 Rep Power: 0	any comparison to the 750AACS?