14 DAY TRIAL // While solid state drive get faster, courtesy of new SandForce controllers, hard drives excel in their own area of expertise, that of storage space to be exact, and Western Digital just announced that it has started shipping what it calls the world's largest-capacity SATA HDDs.
Some time ago, makers of hard disk drives managed to create platters with a data density of 750 GB, and this led to the possibility of reaching new capacity thresholds.
Western Digital is one of those companies and utilized said platters in the making of its latest Caviar Green HDDs.
The newcomers have internal storage spaces of 2.5TB and 3TB, respectively, and feature the Advanced Format Technology.
They also communicate through the SATA 3.0 Gbps interface, in addition to being bundled with a PCIe x1 controller, needed to allow operating systems to correctly allocate and address their capacities.
What's more, they have 64 MB of cache and have already been given price tags, of $189 for the 2.5TB version and $239 for the 3TB model.
"WD remains a leader of hard drive capacity and low power innovation,” said Jim Morris, executive vice president and general manager of WD's client systems storage group.
“With our WD Caviar Green drives, we enable energy-conscious customers to build systems with the highest capacities that deliver the optimal balance of system performance, ensured reliability and energy conservation," Morris added.
"Customers will be able to take advantage of this breakthrough capacity point now for secondary external storage in legacy 32-bit systems that run on Microsoft Vista or Windows 7 platforms." he went on to saying.
The newcomers are backed by a three-year warranty and have already been added to their maker's official website. All the available information on them, and their siblings, can be found here.