WD
After upping the storage ante with the introduction of the world's
first
2TB
hard-drive, Western Digital migrates the capacity to an
enterprise-class drive that's already begun shipping in the USA.
The
WD
RE4-GP matches the desktop
Caviar
Green's
capacity but increases buffer
size to 64MB, adds in a five-year waranty (three on Caviar Green),
quotes a 1.2-million hours before
MTBF, and time-limited error recovery - a RAID-specific
feature.
Additionally, WD reckons the drive is better-suited to the enterprise
space because it employs what's termed a rotary acceleration feed
forward feature, whereby drive is less prone to failure in
vibration-heavy environments - in multi-drive rack-mounts, for example.
There's no explicit mention of spindle speed, just like the desktop
Green, so it's safe to assume it's a variable-speed drive, probably
spinning closer to 5,400rpm at most times.
Priced at $329.99 it is $30 more expensive than the desktop variant.
That should make it around £275 in the UK.
Specification
link.
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If they use that technology to make a 2TB Green HDD perform more like a Velociraptor, I'd like to see them use it on the rest of their line and see what looks best then:).
But the design ethos of the Green and Velociraptors are opposite ends of the scale - one is a high power, high performance device and the other an energy efficient, quiet device. Methinks someone wants to have their cake and eat it.Quote
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