WD Shipping 2 TB 7200 RPM Caviar Black HDD

You want your 2 TB and 7200 RPM? Now you can have it.

Want storage and speed? Up until today, if you wanted a 2 TB consumer desktop drive, you'd likely have to settle for one that not built for speed, but now you can have one that'll spin you right round at 7200 RPM.

WD today announced that it is now shipping a desktop Caviar Black 7200 RPM 2 TB hard drive (model WD2001FASS), composed of four 500 GB platters, 64 MB cache, dual stage actuator technology, and SATA 3 Gb/sec. interface.

"WD Caviar Black 2 TB hard drives maximize the features and functionality of power computing applications such as gaming, photo editing, user generated multimedia and video," said Jim Morris, senior vice president and general manager of WD's client storage systems. "With the selection of WD Caviar Black hard drives, WD desktop customers receive the best possible mix of capacity, performance and reliability that is required for intense desktop computing."

For enterprise-class needs, WD is now qualifying the RE4 2 TB (model WD2003FYYS), which is suited for servers, network attached storage and storage networks. The WD RE4 2 TB drives feature similar features as the Caviar Black with a 7200 RPM spin speed and 64 MB cache and also add a more hardy 1.2 million hours MTBF, Active Power Save, among other features.

The WD Caviar Black 2 TB GB is available at an MSRP of $299.