Western Digital has announced the latest addition to its environmentally friendly, cool and quiet, WD Caviar Green hard drive family - the world's first 2 terabyte (TB) hard drive.
The new 3.5-inch platform is based on WD's 500 GB/platter technology (with 400 Gb/in2 areal density) with 32 MB cache, producing drives with capacities of up to 2 TB. The Caviar Green drives are designed for use in USB/FireWire/eSATA external hard drives, desktop computers, workstations, and desktop RAID environments.
WD uses a number of advanced technologies to enable the speed, capacity and performance of Caviar Green hard drives. StableTrac technology secures the motor shaft at both ends to reduce system-induced vibration. The IntelliPower fine-tunes the balance of spin speed, transfer rate and caching algorithms designed to deliver both significant power savings and solid performance. The No Touch ramp load technology is designed to ensure the recording head never touches the disk media resulting in significantly less wear to the recording head and media, as well as better drive protection while in transit.
"Saving power without sacrificing storage capacity is what consumers want, and what many businesses are requiring today. With the launch of the new WD Caviar Green 2 TB hard drive, customers receive the additional capacities needed to operate today's highly advanced programs and high-resolution digital files while using less power than typical drives with similar performance and capacities," said Jim Morris, WD senior vice president and general manager of client systems.
The WD Caviar Green 2 TB is available at select resellers and distributors for $299.00 USD.
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