Western Digital Caviar Green 2 TB Retail Desktop Drive

jmke · 4th February 2009, 16:31

Ten percent of all 3.5in hard drives sold today are in capacities of 1TB or greater, claims Mark Geenen, President of Trend Focus. For enthusiasts, that number would grow exponentially and with their low cost, rightly so. A few months ago Seagate launched their 1.5TB drive, but it has been plagued with firmware issues that are only now getting resolved. Just as with the graphics card world, hard drive manufacturers play the performance and capacity leapfrog game.

In this round Western Digital was first to reach the finish line and the race was to 2 terabytes of storage capacity. This is achieved through their new platter technology that allows for 500 GB of data to be stored on a single platter. Western Digital also filled the drive with their best IP like IntelliSeek and IntelliPower technology that allows the new 2TB Caviar to fall under the Green product line. The advanced technology doesn’t stop there, but we will get into all of the details on the Specifications Page.

http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/173...ive/index.html

4th February 2009, 17:11

The measured access times are completely false, i suspect. The rest of the tests confirm that they aren't that great in reality. I guess Everest has some problems with that drive.

4th February 2009, 16:31	#1
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,022	Western Digital Caviar Green 2 TB Retail Desktop Drive Ten percent of all 3.5in hard drives sold today are in capacities of 1TB or greater, claims Mark Geenen, President of Trend Focus. For enthusiasts, that number would grow exponentially and with their low cost, rightly so. A few months ago Seagate launched their 1.5TB drive, but it has been plagued with firmware issues that are only now getting resolved. Just as with the graphics card world, hard drive manufacturers play the performance and capacity leapfrog game. In this round Western Digital was first to reach the finish line and the race was to 2 terabytes of storage capacity. This is achieved through their new platter technology that allows for 500 GB of data to be stored on a single platter. Western Digital also filled the drive with their best IP like IntelliSeek and IntelliPower technology that allows the new 2TB Caviar to fall under the Green product line. The advanced technology doesn’t stop there, but we will get into all of the details on the Specifications Page. http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/173...ive/index.html __________________

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4th February 2009, 17:11	#2
npp Posts: n/a	The measured access times are completely false, i suspect. The rest of the tests confirm that they aren't that great in reality. I guess Everest has some problems with that drive.