These go up to 3TB
The capacity wars continue. Western Digital (WD) has launched what it's calling "the world's largest capacity SATA hard drive". The Caviar Green family of SATA hard drives now offer a maximum capacity of 3TB.
This isn't the first 3TB HDD, however. Seagate managed that back in June and WD matched it earlier this month. The nature of WD's announcement implies it was desperate to announce a ‘first' of its own for a change.
"WD remains a leader of hard drive capacity and low power innovation," said Jim Morris, EVP and GM of WD's client systems storage group. "With our WD Caviar Green drives, we enable energy-conscious customers to build systems with the highest capacities that deliver the optimal balance of system performance, ensured reliability and energy conservation."
"Customers will be able to take advantage of this breakthrough capacity point now for secondary external storage in legacy 32-bit systems that run on Microsoft Vista or Windows 7 platforms."
Apparently the drives are already available through the channel. the 2.5TB one costs £155 and the 3TB one costs £195.
