WD offers a hard disk interface SATA-600

Seagate was the first major hard disk manufacturers have offered models of hard drives with interface SATA-600. Tests have shown, however, that in terms of speed of the new interface is a classic hard drives nothing, the transition to the use of SATA-600 is more relevant for solid state drives.

In any case, southbridges AMD will offer support SATA-600 in March this year, Intel will catch up early next year, and sell hard disks without SATA-600 interface will soon be bad manners. Well aware of this, the company Western Digital has quietly released on its website description of the Winchester family WD1002FAEX Black Caviar 1 TB capacity, endowed with SATA-600 interface and 64 MB buffer.

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Spindle speed for this drive is 7200 rpm, used magnetic plate volume of 500 GB. Last property allows to produce in this series and hard disk capacity of 2 terabytes, but such a model with interface SATA-600 has not yet proposed.


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