Western Digital Launches 2 TB Hard Drive
Is your collection of “media” growing at an exponential rate? Western Digital could have what you’re looking for, as it launches the industry’s first 2 TB hard disk drive.
Western Digital’s first 2 TB hard drive (model WD20EADS) makes use of the company’s 500 GB/platter technology (with 400 Gb/in2 areal density), with a set of four to make up the massive capacity. The drive will feature a 32 MB.
Most computer users are still running modestly sized drives in comparison to WD’s new offering, and seem to be managing fine. Will there ever be a real need to hit 2 TB when even 1 TB seems like a luxury? Mark Geenen, president of Trend Focus, says more and more people are taking to the roominess.
"While some in the industry wondered if the end consumer would buy a 1 TB drive, already some 10 percent of 3.5-inch hard drive sales are at the 1 TB level or higher, serving demand from video applications and expanding consumer media libraries," said Geenen. "The 2 TB hard drives will continue to satisfy end user's insatiable desire to store more data on ever larger hard drives."
The new 3.5-inch drive will be a part of the Caviar Green family, which, as the name suggests, is part of WD’s low-energy line. The drive will make use of IntelliPower, which WD says “fine-tunes the balance of spin speed, transfer rate and caching algorithms designed to deliver both significant power savings and solid performance."
Overall, however, the new 2 TB drive’s specialty is storage, not speed. The WD20EADS should be filling channels and carries with it an MSRP of $299.
What would you do with all that space?
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"What would you do with all that space?"
Span 4 of them together for the much-needed 7TB project backup we need at work.
just the ticket. i bought a 1 tb usb drive at chrismas and i have 2% left on it. in less than a mounth. on the other hand im running out of friends to take stuff from. but that dosent mean i coulent fill a second tb over the corse of a year. after all 2.7 gigs of work isent hard to do a day when it comes to video and sound editing, not to mension backing up my fammalys laptos and my own. so 2 tb is sweet by me. cant wait for ssd's to level up to this point, cause then its speed and storeage.
some people use SO MUCH SPACE!!!! I have only a 160 gb hdd and its only just getting full....
Damn now one should be able to download the entire collection of e-Mule PORNO.............. that's like at least 5 million files of HD videos!
Trouble is the disk might die by the time all of those files complete downloading..... Or download into standard drives and then transfer to this giant till it is filled up.
Go for it people.