Western Digital Produces Largest Hard Drive

January 27, 2009 By Nick Mokey

Western Digital's new 2TB Caviar Green drive is the largest 3.5-inch drive ever produced, with a whopping 2TB of capacity.

Bigger doesn’t usually mean “greener,” but in the case of Western Digital’s new 2TB Caviar Green drives, that seems to be the case. According to the company, the goliath drives are both the biggest it has ever produced, and among the best on the market when it comes to power consumption.

Western Digital announced the drives, which fit 2TB of storage into a standard 3.5-inch drive profile, on Tuesday. The Californian company claims that technologies like StableTrac, IntelliPower, IntelliSeek, and NoTouch help reduce power consumption by 40 percent over “standard drives,” amounting to about 4 or 5 watts.

Other specs include a 32MB cache, SATA transfer rates of 3Gb/s, and an amazing 400GB per square inch of data density.

The drives are available immediately for $300 from select WD retailers and distributors.

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john doe at 7:48am 18th October 2010 i saw a 1.5 TB HDD on Tiger Direct the other day fr $80..... buy two or three, use RAID, and be awesome. :)
guest86 at 10:08pm 27th January 2009 Why Why why price is $300 for?!!!! That is retard! I saw on Google said that Western Digital 2 TB Hard drive price between $210 to $230. $300 is shame!

500 GB hard drive will be $49.99 and 1 TB will cost $99.99. I not playing game. Really serious! I will keep eye on all kinds of stores and on internet at same time. If price go crazy will be wrong! I know 2 TB should be $199.99 this end of year 2009 (FALL). Oh my god, we getting old. Crying! :'-(
sim at 10:12am 27th January 2009 Great stuff, cant wait until they drop the cost. RAID :)