WESTERN DIGITAL 2TB HDD (WD RE4-GP)

Western Digital Has Launched a 3.5”, 2TB, WD RE4-GP, enterprise Version of HDD. This is the largest Capacity of HDD ever made by any manufacturer. This HDD is loaded with a lot of features.

Interface : This comes with SATA 2.0 interface with a maximum data transfer
speed of 3.0Gb/s.

Efficiency : The drive is made energy efficient, so to avoid heating and also to
run in economy mode. Three technologies added to this drive helps to do this. They are intelliseek, intellipark and intellipower.

Performance : As previous version had 32MB cache and yielded great
performance results, these drives are addition of cache of 64MB and support dual processing. These improvements boosts performance of the HDD by 25%.

Vibration Tolerance: As we know the most causes of failure of HDD is due to vibration while rotating at great speeds. This HDD comes with advancements to withstand the vibrations and work continuously.

Stable Trac : This is attached along with the sides of the motor shaft to avoid motor vibrations and the platters don’t hit the heads during any external vibrations.

RAID :Best suited for Raid configurations in enterprise. As a single harddrive can provide 2TB, the data centres and domains can be built cost effectively.

This drive is a high performing, efficient and reliable drive. Hope this is cheaper too. I can say it is great and i will surely use them to upgrade my workstation.