Users can now store 2TB of files in a single drive
Western Digital drive hits 2TB
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27 Jan 2009, Daniel Robinson , V3
Western Digital has announced the first 2TB hard drive to hit the market. The unit extends Western Digital's Caviar Green family of 3.5in drives, and will also be available inside the firm's My Book range of external storage products.
The company touted the Caviar Green 2TB WD20EADS as the world's highest capacity drive, and said that its would provide ample storage for users with burgeoning collections of music, video and images.
The drive features the 3Gbit/s version of the SATA interface, and carries a suggested price of €299 (£280).
While some may question the need for such large storage capacities, Western Digital quoted figures from data storage research firm Trend Focus which suggest that 10 per cent of 3.5in hard drive sales are already at the 1TB level or above. A terabyte is 1,000 gigabytes.
Jim Morris, Western Digital senior vice president, claimed that the drives are also economical in terms of power consumption.
"With the launch of the new Caviar Green 2TB 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 speeds and capacities," he said.
The Caviar Green 2TB WD20EADS will be available from the end of January.
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Terabytes
A Terabyte is 1024 Gigabytes, not 1000!
Posted by Aus Warne, 27 Jan 2009
Make me headache!
Why Why why price is $300 for?!!!! That is retard! I saw on Google said that Western Digital 2 TB Hard drive price between $210 to $230. $300 is shame!
500 GB hard drive will be $49.99 and 1 TB will cost $99.99. I not playing game. Really serious! I will keep eye on all kinds of stores and on internet at same time. If price go crazy will be wrong! I know 2 TB should be $199.99 this end of year 2009 (FALL). Oh my god, we getting old. Crying! :'-(
Posted by Guest86, 28 Jan 2009
Hard drive storage capacities
To Aus Warne:
You are correct if you count in binary. However, hard drive manufacturers do not. To quote Western Digital's definition: "one megabyte (MB) = one million bytes, one gigabyte (GB) = one billion bytes, and one terabyte (TB) = one trillion bytes."
Posted by Daniel Robinson, 02 Feb 2009