WD's 2TB Caviar Green HD Surfaces

xblues

, Western Digital has finally introduced their 3.5-inch 2TB Caviar Green

Western Digital has introduced the first ever 2TB 3.5-inch internalhard drive for a hefty price of $299 (approx. Rs. 14,400). This 2TB HDwill join WD's Caviar Green HD line-up with third-gen GreenPowertechnology. Demand for more storage has pushed internal hard drivemanufacturers to come up with higher density hard drives based on the500GB per platter technology.

                               
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The2TB Caviar Green hard drive is the first ever thus far on the 3.5-inchplatform and has high areal density with a 32MB cache. Nothing muchabout the platter speed has been mentioned, except that the 2TB versioncomes close to the current Caviar Green HDs.

In terms of powerconsumption, the 2TB monster consumes 7.4 watts during read-writeoperations, 4 watts when idle, and 0.97 watts in sleep/standby mode. WDclaims that this drive consumes up to 40 percent less power as comparedto other drives in this category.

Western Digital is set tocompete with the existing 1TB and 1.5TB 3.5-inch variations availablein the market with this model. WD's 2TB Caviar Green will startshipping in a week and prices for the Indian market are yet to beannounced.

xblues

已经多次发布了，应该2月份就可以买到了。售价2000RMB，还是比较贵的。
估计各项参数上没有希捷那么激进，因此当然没有希捷的那个光芒效应了。
但是希望比希捷的稳定，毕竟稳定和数据安全最重要了。

我3月份登陆澳洲，急需要一个稳定的大硬盘。

bg1pdq

你需要的是两个。一个太危险了。

xblues

两个也好啊，可是现在还没有可以买的，无尽的等待啊。

yuba

买两个没有 spare，没安全多少