Western Digital Caviar SE16 750 GB Hard Drive Review

Western digital is focusing a lot on manufacturing low power consumption products in order to meet the requirements of PC users all over the world. Every possible aspect of hardware and drives are optimized in order to consume low power during operation and especially during idle time. The intelliseek technology of western digital enables lower power consumption and reduces the level of noise created by drive operation. IntelliSeek actuates the actuators exactly when it is required for operation. Western digital officials claim that these advantages did not result by slowing the sleek times. This power saving option never compromises the performance of the drive.

western digital caviar SE 16 750GB
Western Digital caviar SE 16 750GB

Apart from this, 750GB capacity of the drive gives an additional boost to pc enthusiasts. 750GB is packed in 4 perpendicular platters. Reliability is enhanced with internal supports. Each perpendicular platter consists of 188GB. The drive feature 16MB of cache and spindle speed is 7200rpm. Perpendicular magnetic technology is used to store data. In perpendicular recording technology, the data is stored vertically unlike traditional horizontal way. This enables the drive to have increased areal density.

Specification of western digital caviar SE 16 750GB hard drive:

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Advantages of Using DVD for Your Backup


DVD is also known as Digital Versatile Disc. It is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for data storage, including movies with high video and sound quality. DVDRs have gained immense popularity over the traditional use of CD s and CDRs. People have resorted to DVDRs to watch movies, listen to music, play games, store information, etc.

The DVDR is known to store information up to 4.5 GB, which is the equivalent of 5 CDs. This feature of DVDRs has made it a huge success in the US and across the world. The DVDR format has a few advantages when used in a computer. DVDRs are made from a 0.6 mm thick disc of polycarbonate plastic, coated with a much thinner reflective layer of aluminium or gold.

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EVGA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Superclocked 3D Card

The EVGA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Superclocked has the best power efficiency in its category. It has a good balance between performance and power efficiency.

Specifications:

Price $259

Manufacturing  process 55nm
Core clock 576MHz

Stream processors 216

Stream processor clock 1242 MHz

Memory 898MB

Memory speed 1GHz DDR3

Review:

The EVGA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Superclocked connects directly to the PC’s power supply and is a double-width card. Two six-pin power connector of PCI Express type are available for this. Unlike other competing midrange cards, regardless of the number of GPUs onboard, the GTX 260 Core 216 with a single 3D chip, doesn’t quite match up with the other cards of similar price range.

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