First 2 TB HDD Released By Western Digital

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First 2 TB HDD Released By Western Digital

Western Digital Corporation is a manufacturer of computer hard disk drives, and has a long history in the electronics industry as an integrated circuit maker and a storage products company. Western Digital was founded on April 23, 1970 as General Digital, initially (and briefly) a manufacturer of MOS semiconductor test equipment. It rapidly became a specialty semiconductor maker, with startup capital provided by several individual investors and industrial giant Emerson Electric Company. In July, 1971, they adopted their current name, had moved to Newport Beach, California, and soon after introduced their first product, the WD1402A UART. Western Digital is currently the second largest hard drive company, after Seagate Technology.

WD has revealed today the first 2 terabyte (TB) hard drive, which is the world's highest capacity drive and the latest addition to WD's popular, environmentally friendly, cool and quiet, WD Caviar Green hard drive family. This new 3.5-inch platform is based on WD's 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.

Mark Geenen, President of Trend Focus commented "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. The 2 TB hard drives will continue to satisfy end user's insatiable desire to store more data on ever larger hard drives."

As one of the most successful product lines in the company's recent history with its third-generation GreenPower technology, WD Caviar Green is now offering 2 TB of proven reliable storage for today's high-resolution files and graphics. WD Caviar Green drives are created for use in USB/FireWire/eSATA external hard drives, desktop computers, workstations, and desktop RAID environments.

A number of advanced technologies allow the speed, capacity and performance of WD's Caviar Green 1.5 TB and 2 TB hard drives. These technologies include: StableTrac, which secures the motor shaft at both ends to lower system-induced vibration and stabilize platters for accurate tracking during read and write operations; IntelliPower, which fine-tunes the balance of spin speed, transfer rate and caching algorithms created to provide both significant power savings and solid performance; IntelliSeek, which calculates optimum seek speeds to lower power consumption, noise, and vibration; and NoTouch ramp load technology, which is created to guarantee the recording head never touches the disk media resulting in significantly less wear to the recording head and media, as well as better drive protection while in transit.

Jim Morris, WD senior vice president and general manager of client systems stated "Saving power without sacrificing storage capacity is what consumers want, and what many businesses are requiring today. With the launch of the new WD Caviar Green 2 TB hard drive, customers receive the additional capacities needed to operate today's highly advanced programs and high-resolution digital files while using less power than typical drives with similar performance and capacities".

More details on http://www.wdc.com .

Posts : 49 Join date : 2009-07-30

hulat sa ko mubaba ni to around 12 usa ko palit.

pist* 14k akong palit sa samsung 1tb. lol!

Posts : 369 Join date : 2009-07-27

hehe...Grabe,,,naman