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Western Digial Launches 7200 RPM 2TB Hard Drive

Posted 09/01/09 at 12:30:04 PM  by Paul Lilly

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Western Digital today starting shipping its new desktop 7200 RPM 2TB hard drive to OEMs and becomes the second manufacturer to offer the high spindle speed and capacity combination (Hitachi being the first).

As part of the WD Caviar Black series, the 2TB model is based on the company's 500GB-per-platter technology. Other features include a heaping 64MB of cache, dual stage actuator technology, SATA 3Gb/s, an integrated dual processor, and NoTouch ramp load technology, which ensures the recording head never touches the disk media and, according to WD, results in significantly less wear and tear on the drive.

Western Digital's speedy 2TB drive is available now with an MSRP of $299.

Image Credit: Western Digital

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TAGS: storage, Hard Drive, Western Digital, HDD, hardware, wd, build a pc, 2TB, 7200 rpm
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avatarThis drive might beat out

Submitted by TechJunkie on Tue, 09/01/2009 - 3:44pm

This drive might beat out the seagate in some benchmarks as it's stats look pretty impressive. BUT, for a mere $260, you can have 3TB (2 - 1.5TB 7200.11 barracuda's) in which we all know is no slouch. So it would be a tradeoff if the WD pulls ahead, space or speed.

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avatar2 TB Showdown

Submitted by major_tom on Tue, 09/01/2009 - 2:51pm

Looking forward to the review on this one, I suspect it'll score higher than the Hitachi, but perhaps not the Seagate...  The next issue should have a showdown between all three, ending with me buying the best :)

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avatarI wonder what are the

Submitted by erolsipar on Tue, 09/01/2009 - 9:41am

I wonder what are the benchmarks since it has 2 cpus and 64 mb cache.

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