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Western Digital Launches 2 TB Hard Drive.

Is your collection of тЂњmediaтЂќ growing at an exponential rate? Western Digital could have what youтЂ™re looking for, as it launches the industryтЂ™s first 2 TB hard disk drive. Western DigitalтЂ™s first 2 TB hard drive (model WD20EADS) makes use of the companyтЂ™s 500 GB/platter technology (with 400 Gb/in2 areal density), with a set of four to make up the massive capacity. The drive will feature a 32 MB cache. Most computer users are still running modestly sized drives in comparison to WDтЂ™s new offering, and seem to be managing fine. Will there ever be a real need to hit 2 TB when even 1 TB seems like a luxury? Mark Geenen, president of Trend Focus, says more and more people are taking to the roominess. "While some in the industry wondered if the end consumer would buy a 1 TB drive, already some 10 percent of 3.5-inch hard drive sales are at the 1 TB level or higher, serving demand from video applications and expanding consumer media libraries," said Geenen. "The 2 TB hard drives will continue to satisfy end user"s insatiable desire to store more data on ever larger hard drives." The new 3.5-inch drive will be a part of the Caviar Green family, which, as the name suggests, is part of WDтЂ™s low-energy line. The drive will make use of IntelliPower, which WD says тЂњfine-tunes the balance of spin speed, transfer rate and caching algorithms designed to deliver both significant power savings and solid performance."Т  Overall, however, the new 2 TB driveтЂ™s specialty is storage, not speed. The WD20EADS should be filling channels and carries with it an MSRP of $299. What would you do with all that space?

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