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Western Digital launches world's first 2TB hard drive

by Parm Mann on 27 January 2009, 13:33

Tags: Caviar Green, WD (NYSE:WDC)

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Storage-specialist Western Digital has officially taken the wraps off its new pride and joy, the 2TB Caviar Green hard drive.

The 3.5in drive becomes the highest-capacity offering currently available, and provides a mammoth 500GB of storage on each of its four platters. There's the expected 32MB cache, and a selection of Western Digital technologies - IntelliPower and IntelliSeek, for example - designed to make the drive less power hungry, cool and quiet.

Though the Caviar Green hard drive series also boasts 1.5TB and 1TB models, it's this gargantuan 2TB drive (model #WD20EADS) that'll be turning heads.

The drive utilises a standard 3GB/s SATA interface and claims to consume less than 1W of power when in standby, 4W when idle and 7.4W when reading/writing.

We're all for solid-state drives, but when a hard-disk alternative can offer around 6,690 megabytes per Euro, it's hard to ignore. Western Digital expects the 2TB Caviar Green to be available this month priced at €299.

Official press release: WD LAUNCHES INDUSTRY’S FIRST 2 TB HARD DRIVES
Official produce page: WDC.com



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Finally an official release!
overcockers have them on pre-order at £206.99 - so sub 200 from other places looks likely
thats the biggets platter density so far isnt it?
1tb is £70-80… thats some premium for having it all in one drive. Once it hits £150 I'll consider it but its a lot of data to trust to one drive so many people will be buying two…. Ouch!
jackvdbuk
thats the biggets platter density so far isnt it?
Yup. 500GB/platter vs 375GB/platter for the Seagate 1.5TB drive.

£204 is the cheapest on Google Shopping (http://www.hp-sales.co.uk/products.asp?partno=WD20EADS)

Methanoid
1tb is £70-80… thats some premium for having it all in one drive. Once it hits £150 I'll consider it but its a lot of data to trust to one drive so many people will be buying two…. Ouch!
You generally always pay more for the highest density drives. The exception being the 1.5TB seagate which can be had for about £115.

I want 5 for one of my NAS boxes :mrgreen: