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Post to SlashdotAnd today the answer to this question has been received! WD made an official press-release about the availability (i.e. the beginning of official sales) of one more hard disk drive with 8MB cache-buffer: WD Caviar 80GB Special Edition!. As you remember, there used to be only two solutions with the cache-buffer of this size in WD’s product range: 100GB and 120GB (WD1000JB and WD1200JB).
Well, the launching of this HDD is quite justified: people are not very eager to buy drives of huge storage capacity, even though the price-to-capacity ratio looks very attractive, and as for 80GB, this size doesn’t have any shocking effect on the users any more. At the same time, our and not only our tests show that the significant performance improvement by these hard disk drives is achieved solely due to larger cache-buffer.
So, I received an answer to one question. But the other one still remains open: "I wonder how the competitors will react?"
