2TB hard drives from Western Digital

Mumbai: WD announced the first 2 terabyte (TB) hard drive-the world's highest capacity drive and the latest addition to WD's environmentally friendly WD Caviar Green hard drive family. This new 3.5-inch platform is based on WD's 500GB/platter technology (with 400GB/in2 areal density) with 32MB cache, producing drives with capacities of up to 2TB.

"While some in the industry wondered if the end consumer would buy a 1TB drive, already some 10 percent of 3.5-inch hard drive sales worldwide are at the 1TB level or higher, serving demand from video applications and expanding consumer media libraries," said Sharad Srivastava, Director-Sales, India and South Asia, Western Digital. "The 2TB hard drives will continue to satisfy end user's insatiable desire to store more data on ever larger hard drives."

"Saving power without sacrificing storage capacity is what consumers want, and what many businesses are requiring today. With the launch of the new WD Caviar Green 2TB hard drive, customers receive the additional capacities needed to operate today's highly advanced programs and high-resolution digital files while using less power than typical drives with similar performance and capacities," said Srivastava.

The WD Caviar Green 2TB is available at select resellers and distributors. MSRP for the WD Caviar Green 2 TB hard drives (model WD20EADS) is Rs 14,950.