Western Digital Announced 334 GB Storage Space per plate

After having packed 320 GB of storage space per plate last January, Western Digital announced to have further increased the capacity per plate to 334 GB. This achievement will be only used for the 1 TB Caviar GP HD available in Asia. Other specifications of the HD (7200 rpm, 16 MB cache and SATA format) remain identical to the model available worldwide but there are based on four plates of 250 GB each. Western Digital did not provide any additional information regarding the price of such high-density plate-based HD, nor its availability for non-Asian markets. The main goal of increasing storage density is to reduce the number of plates and as a consequence the reduce power consumption and increase reliability.