2TB Western Digital Caviar Green drive appears online
Posted on 27 January 2009, at 5:52 am, by Wayne Schulz
This seems like an unbelievable jump in storage capacity – though something tells me it’s probably only the beginning. Western Digital has just begun offering a 2 Terabyte 7200 RPM SATA hard disk via Australian online retailers. Billed as eco-friendly the drive reduces power consumption up to 38 percent and saves on average 4 to 5 watts as compared to competitors’ drives. Pricing is $429 AUD (about $280 US) and so far availability seems limited to the land down under though US can’t be far behind.
IntelliPower™ – A fine-tuned balance of spin speed, transfer rate and cache size designed to deliver both significant power savings and solid performance.
IntelliSeek™ – Calculates optimum seek speeds to lower power consumption, noise and vibration.
IntelliPark™ – Delivers lower power consumption by automatically unloading the heads during idle to reduce aerodynamic drag.
Perpendicular Magnetic Recording (PMR) – Employ PMR technology to achieve even greater areal density.
StableTrac™ – The motor shaft is secured at both ends to reduce system-induced vibration and stabilize platters for accurate tracking, during read and write operations.
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February 3rd, 2009 at 5:29 pm
Just got my hands on my first one. It's so quiet! Unlike my 1.5TB Seagates that lock up and generally cause me problems, this drive seems to be problem free so far. Of course, I've only had it four days.. so we'll see what happens long term.