Western Digital Corp will showcase its new high capacity 400 GB Serial ATA (Sata) WD Caviar(R) SE16 desktop-class hard drives at Gitex Dubai 2005, among a host of other advanced products.

Gitex Dubai will be held from September 25 to 29, 2005 at the Dubai World Trade Centre.
With 7,200 RPM spindle speed, native Sata technology and 16 MB cache, the new desktop-class WD Caviar SE16 400 GB hard drives are ideal for graphic design, video editing, gaming, advanced business computing and other high-end desktop applications, the company said.  “The WD Caviar product family delivers the cool, quiet and high performance storage that has long made WD Caviar the hard-drive brand of choice worldwide.”
The company also announced a three-year warranty for its desktop-class hard drives, including WD Caviar, WD Caviar SE and WD Caviar SE16 — the highest performance of the WD Caviar product family.
Hafeez Khawaja, WD’s senior regional director, Middle East, Africa and South Asia, says: “The 400 GB marks the culmination of a long line of enhancements to the WD Caviar desktop hard-drive family. Today, they are among the world’s most popular hard drive brands because of their reputation for reliability, performance and cool and quiet operation. Additionally, these hard drives are capable of meeting the storage needs of diverse environment, from consumer electronics to enterprise to desktop and notebook computing environments.”
The new desktop-class WD Caviar SE16 Sata 400 GB hard drives combine a 16 MB cache with 150 MB/s transfer rate for industry-leading performance.
 As heat is a major contributor to a hard drive’s performance, cool operating temperatures help increase long-term drive reliability. WD hard drives are designed to have the lowest power consumption of any high-capacity desktop-class hard drive. Lowering the drives’ power consumption means the operating temperature of WD Caviar drives is much cooler. Cool drives are increasingly important for today’s multi-drive and small-form-factor systems.
The reduced noise levels make the hard drives ideal for PCs, digital video recorders and gaming machines. The WD Caviar drive noise levels are virtually imperceptible to the human ear in home and business environments with its WhisperDrive(TM) technology, which features a highly efficient power driver design.