WD’s 2 TB green hard drive to ship soon

Western Digital’s first 2 terabyte (TB) hard drive – the world’s highest capacity drive – will be available on the South African market by mid-February.

This new 3.5-inch platform is based on WD’s 500 GB/platter technology (with 400 Gb/in2 areal density) with 32 MB cache, and is the latest addition to the company’s environmentally-friendly Caviar Green hard drive family.

WD says the Caviar ‘Green’ is one of its most successful product lines in recent history, with its GreenPower technology designed for use in USB/FireWire/eSATA external hard drives, desktop computers, workstations, and desktop RAID environments.

The 2TB drive can store up to 571,000 digital photos, 500,000 MP3 songs, 50,000 uncompressed CD quality songs, 150 hours of Digital Video, 880 hours of DVD quality video or 240 hours of HD video.

The Caviar Green range is the perfect combination of high-speed, high-capacity storage devices that places equal emphasis on environmental principles.

The GreenPower Technology results in a power reduction of up to 40%, which equates to power savings of 4-5 watts over standard desktop drives.

This technology also yields lower operating temperatures for increased reliability and low acoustics for ultra-quiet PCs and external drives.

WD is distributed in South Africa by Drive Control Corporation (DCC), who says the Caviar Green 2 TB hard drive (model WD20EADS) will retail for little more than R2500.