Review News: Western Digital 3TB Caviar Green Hard Drive Shatters 2.19TB Usable Storage Limit!
High capacity storage drives have been improving rather slowly as of late due to the limit that the XP operating system has, as well as the limits enforced by the ages old BIOS system, but this is set to change with UEFI system allowing drives of any size to be used to boot. Western Digital has always been at the forefront of storage drive technology and today released their massive 3TB Caviar Green HDD, and the speed of the drive is just as impressive as the capacity! Be sure to check out the article for more information about this monster drive!
The WD Caviar Green 2.5TB and 3TB drives have capacities in excess of 2.19 TB and this presents barriers for PC hardware, firmware and software. To get around these issues WD is bundling its WD Caviar Green 2.5 and 3 TB hard drives with an Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI)-compliant Host Bus Adapter (HBA), which will enable the operating system to use a known driver with correct support for large capacity drives. WD supplied us with a HighPoint RocketRaid 620 PCI Express 2.0 x 1 SATA III (6.0Gbps) controller card to use with the hard drive. This RAID card retails online for $59.99 plus shipping and for one to be included with the 2.5TB and 3.0TB drives is a nice touch.
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