January 28, 2009: Western Digital (WD) has extended its eco-friendly Caviar Green hard drive family with the addition of the first 2 terabyte (TB) model.
Claimed as the world's highest capacity drive, the 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. Designed to provide extra-high storage capacity with reduced power consumption and a smaller carbon footprint, WD Caviar Green drives are designed for use in USB/FireWire/eSATA external hard drives, desktop computers, workstations, and desktop RAID environments.
Features include StableTrac, which secures the motor shaft at both ends to reduce 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 designed to deliver 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 designed to ensure 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.
The new drive (model: WD20EADS) carries an RRP of $469. It is distributed locally by Achieva, Synnex Australia, Today Tech and Westan. For more product information, visit www.westerndigital.com.
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