Today's Pick - WD Caviar SE16 320GB SATA Hard Drive

Up to now, I have already introduced PC case, CPU, motherboard and memory. What else do we need? Lots more. But hard drive is the next most important thing. We cannot run a computer without a hard drive (although I can remember my first ever PC was running on a floppy disk, that's 15 years ago). The size of hard drive keeps growing. Currently we can buy a single hard drive of 750GB. But we need hard drives with good performance, big enough storage space and reasonable price. So I think 320GB SATAII hard drives will be the best choice. I have picked up the Western Digital Caviar SE16 320 GB SATA Hard Drive to introduce. It has a transfer rate of 300 MB/s and 16 MB cache.

Overview
WD Caviar SE16 7200 RPM next-generation SATA hard drives feature up to 500 GB of storage and a 16 MB cache for lightning-fast performance. Yes, these reliable drives are fast, but they still deliver technologically advanced acoustics and cool operation. Designed for high-performance computers, multimedia and gaming systems.

Key Features

• 16 MB cache - Bigger cache means faster performance. A massive 16 MB cache combined with up to 300 MB/s transfer rate make these ultra-fast drives the perfect solution for the fully loaded PC with a fast processor.
• Cool operating temperature - WD hard drives are designed to have the lowest power consumption of any high-capacity, desktop-class hard drive which lowers the operating temperature for enhanced drive reliability.
• Whisper quiet - These highly reliable drives deliver technologically advanced acoustics. With its WhisperDrive™ and SoftSeek™ technologies, WD has minimized noise to levels virtually imperceptible to the human ear in home and business environments.
  

Ideal For
Designed for use in the fastest PCs on the market, including high-performance business computers, multimedia and gaming systems.

What it holds?

• Up to 91,000 digital photos
• Up to 80,000 songs (MP3)
• Up to 8,000 songs (uncompressed CD quality)
• Up to 24 hours of Digital Video (DV)
• Up to 100 hours of DVD quality video
• Up to 38 hours of HD video

For more information and pricing of this model, click here. The other good choice will be the Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 SATA 320GB Hard Drive.