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.
The number 16 in SE16 refers to the size of the onboard disk cache. All Caviar SE16 drives have a large 16 MB SDRAM buffer. They also make use of Perpendicular Magnetic Recording to achieve a high areal density for greater storage capacity and improved performance.
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