We have seen throughout the year 2002 that 8MB-buffer drives from WD were an effective irritant to other companies. Western Digital caught the spotlight of test labs and, accordingly, customers. At the same time, the advantages of hard disk drives with an 8MB buffer compared with the ordinary ones were not so evident. We only saw the old 8MB-buffer HDD from WD outperforming the new WD2000BB model in our file-copy FC-Test. But now we have got an opportunity to compare the performance of the 8MB-buffer drives from WD with analogous products from competitor companies.
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