Western Digital Launches World’s First 2 terabyte (TB) Hard Drive – Caviar Green
Western Digital (WD) today announced the first 2 terabyte (TB) hard drive the worlds highest capacity drive and the latest addition to WDs popular, environmentally friendly, cool and quiet, WD Caviar Green hard drive family. This new 3.5-inch platform is based on WDs industry-leading 500 GB/platter technology (with 400 Gb/in2 areal density) with 32 MB cache, producing drives with capacities of up to 2 TB. The WD Caviar Green 2 TB is available at select resellers and distributors. MSRP for the WD Caviar Green 2 TB hard drives (model WD20EADS) is $299.00 USD.
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 are at the 1 TB level or higher, serving demand from video applications and expanding consumer media libraries, said Mark Geenen, President of Trend Focus. The 2 TB hard drives will continue to satisfy end users insatiable desire to store more data on ever larger hard drives.
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