 "WD Announces Two Terabyte Caviar Green Hard Drive")
WD has announced its first 2 terabyte hard drive - the latest addition to WD’s environmentally friendly, cool and quiet, WD Caviar Green hard drive family.
This new 3.5-inch platform is based on WD’s 500 GB/platter technology (with 400 Gb/in 2 areal density) with 32 MB cache, producing drives with capacities of up to 2 TB.
“While some in the industry wondered if the end consumer would buy a 1 TB drive, already some 10 percent of 3.5-inch hard drive sales worldwide are at the 1 TB level or higher, serving demand from video applications and expanding consumer media libraries,” said Sharad Srivastava, director-Sales (India & South Asia), Western Digital. “The 2 TB hard drives will continue to satisfy the end user’s desire to store more data on ever larger hard drives.”
WD Caviar Green drives are designed for use in USB/ FireWire/ eSATA external hard drives, desktop computers, workstations, and desktop RAID environments. A number of advanced technologies enable the speed, capacity and performance of WD’s Caviar Green 1.5 TB and 2 TB hard drives. These include:
- StableTrac, which secures the motor shaft at both ends to reduce system-induced vibration and stabilises platters for accurate tracking during read and write operations
- IntelliPower, which fine-tunes the balance of spin speed, transfer rate and caching algorithms designed to deliver both power savings and solid performance
- IntelliSeek, which calculates optimum seek speeds to lower power consumption, noise, and vibration
- NoTouch ramp load technology, which is designed to ensure the recording head never touches the disk media resulting in less wear to the recording head and media, as well as better drive protection while in transit.
The WD Caviar Green 2 TB is available at select resellers and distributors at a price of Rs 14, 950.