2 terabyte hard disk drive from WD

02Apr09

Western Digital (WD) announce first ever 2TB hard disk drive

Graphic designers, photographers and video editors, in particular, are well known for their high capacity requirements as regards hard disk space. And there is no reason to suppose that these digital file storage requirements will get any less in the future.

Now that increasingly powerful personal computers allow creatives to work on increasingly larger files – for example multi-layered, high resolution Adobe Photoshop images – the tendency is for those files to get increasingly bigger. Moreover, as hard disks get larger and cheaper, designers can afford to save more copies and backups.

Into this scenario steps WD who have announced their latest product, the WD Caviar Green, a 2 terabyte hard drive. The 3.5 inch 2 TB capacity drive is a first and cements it as the world’s largest capacity hard drive. Previously it had been possible to buy disk enclosures with a 2TB capacity and higher, but this had to be made up by combining separate hard disks using RAID.

In addition to capacity, WD claim that the Caviar Green is environmentally friendly in a number of ways, including reduced power consumption and lower operating temperature. Also featured is IntelliSeek technology, which WD say works out the optimum seek speeds to lower the hard drive’s power consumption, noise and vibration.

The WD drives are designed for use in external hard drives via USB, FireWire and eSATA connections as well as desktop computers and RAID setups.

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