Here’s the biggest SATA Drive On the earth [Storage]

It just looks as if any other, but this WD Caviar Green is three terabytes, using 750GB-per-platter. At just $240, it comes just in time to upgrade my backup storage unit.

WD® Now Shipping the realm’s Largest Capacity SATA Hard Drives

WD Caviar® Green™ 3 TB Hard Drives Support the ongoing Demand for Increased Capacity in External Storage and Advanced PC Applications

LAKE FOREST, Calif., Oct. 19 /PRNewswire/ – WD® (NYSE: WDC) today announced that the company is shipping the area’s largest capacity SATA hard disk drive. As the newest addition to its WD Caviar® Green™ family of SATA hard drives (photo), the recent hard drives deliver up to an immense 3 terabytes (TB) of storage capacity on a single drive. WD is leading the industry in capacity for SATA hard drives by using 750 GB-per-platter areal density and Advanced Format (AF) technology.

WD Caviar Green drives are an eco-friendly storage solution with WD GreenPower Technology™, which reduces power consumption by enabling lower operating temperatures for increased reliability and decreases acoustical noise for quiet operation. The WD Caviar Green 2.5 TB and 3 TB hard drives are designed for use as secondary external storage and next-generation PC storage in 64-bit-based systems.

Drives with capacities in far more than 2.19 TB currently present barriers for PC hardware, firmware and software. To fulfill the brand new set of requirements of which users should be aware to successfully integrate larger capacity drives, WD is bundling its WD Caviar Green 2.5 and 3 TB hard drives with a sophisticated Host Controller Interface (AHCI)-compliant Host Bus Adapter (HBA), if you want to enable the operating system to exploit a known driver with correct support for big capacity drives. For additional info on solving the 2.19 TB drive barrier, please see the WD information sheet at http://products.wdc.com/largecapacitydrives.

” WD remains a pacesetter of harddisk capacity and occasional power innovation. With our WD Caviar Green drives, we enable energy-conscious customers to build systems with the best capacities that deliver the optimal balance of system performance, ensured reliability and energy conservation,” said Jim Morris, executive vp and general manager of WD’s client systems storage group. ” Customers will likely be in a position to benefit from this breakthrough capacity point now for secondary external storage in legacy 32-bit systems that run on Microsoft® Vista® or Windows® 7 platforms.”

Price and Availability

WD Caviar Green 2.5 TB hard drives (model number WD25EZRSDTL) and 3 TB hard drives (model number WD30EZRSDTL) are available in now inside the U.S. at select resellers and distributors. MSRP for the WD Caviar Green 2.5 TB harddisk is $189.00 USD and the 3 TB hard disk is $239.00 USD. WD Caviar Green hard drives are covered by a three-year limited warranty. Additional info about WD Caviar Green hard drives should be would becould very well be found on the company’s website at http://www.wdc.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=866.

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