WD® Now Shipping the World's Largest Capacity SATA Hard Drives
WD Caviar® Green™ 3 TB Hard Drives Support the Continuing 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 world's largest capacity SATA hard drive. As the latest addition to its WD Caviar® Green™ family of SATA hard drives (photo), the new hard drives deliver up to a massive 3 terabytes (TB) of storage capacity on a single drive. WD is leading the industry in capacity for SATA hard drives by utilizing 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 excess of 2.19 TB currently present barriers for PC hardware, firmware and software. To satisfy the new set of requirements of which users must be aware to successfully integrate larger capacity drives, WD is bundling its WD Caviar Green 2.5 and 3 TB hard drives with an Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI)-compliant Host Bus Adapter (HBA), which will enable the operating system to use a known driver with correct support for large capacity drives. For more information on solving the 2.19 TB drive barrier, please see the WD information sheet at http://products.wdc.com/largecapacitydrives.
"WD remains a leader of hard drive capacity and low power innovation. 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," said Jim Morris, executive vice president and general manager of WD's client systems storage group. "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."
Price and Availability
WD Caviar Green 2.5 TB hard drives (model number WD25EZRSDTL) and 3 TB hard drives (model number WD30EZRSDTL) are available now in the U.S. at select resellers and distributors. MSRP for the WD Caviar Green 2.5 TB hard drive is $189.00 USD and the 3 TB hard drive is $239.00 USD. WD Caviar Green hard drives are covered by a three-year limited warranty. More information about WD Caviar Green hard drives may be found on the company's website here!
Damn. That's massive.
ReplyDeletewhoaaaa, i dont think all the files ive downloaded in my whole life add up to that
ReplyDeleteI'd love a 3TB hard drive.
ReplyDeleteI've been waiting for those 3tb drives to come out.
ReplyDeleteI need this for my pr0nz
ReplyDelete*GASP* THREE TERABYTES!
ReplyDeleteI can't even start to fill 350 Gigs. But i still want 3 Tb
I like more silent hard drives. I currently have a Samsung F3 spinpoint and it's performing like a champ.
ReplyDeleteI'd love to have one of those. No funds alas.
ReplyDeletei want one!
ReplyDeletethats pretty cool....
ReplyDeleteI want one!
ReplyDeleteoh god. it is beautiful
ReplyDeleteSeeing as though I only have 8GB's left on my HD, I could use one of these D:
ReplyDeleteI'm still having trouble filling up 1tb let alone 3 ;x
ReplyDeleteJust imagine how much stuff you can store on that lol. I can even fill the 500gb I have let alone 3tb.
ReplyDeleteWow that's a great price I'd have no trouble trying to fill it
ReplyDeleteCrazy. I only just recently got a 1TB. In a few months, I'm sure there will be a 3.5 or 4TB.
ReplyDeletelets be honest now... people could fit a lot of porn in there lol
ReplyDeletethat's one seriously beefy hard drive, jeez
ReplyDeleteI need this drive. I would download everything i've ever wanted haha
ReplyDeleteHoly smokes! that thing is massive!
ReplyDeleteWow, so much space is so little area.
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yes ill have 3 of those please they looks quite good, all the "stuff" i could put on there ...O.o
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ReplyDeleteDamnnnnn... three T's. Wow. I want one.
ReplyDeleteThree TB? I came.
ReplyDeleteonce the price goes down on these, I'll pick one up for my external hard drive unit
ReplyDeleteJust a couple years ago, 500gb was big. Price looks about right for this though. Would suck to lose 3tb of data though if it ever failed.
ReplyDeletedayummm.
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I have no need for that much space!
ReplyDeletei am suprised it is that affordable! i will have to get one
ReplyDeleteAwesome
ReplyDeleteholy crap wtf do you need 3 terabytes for
ReplyDeleteWell just in time, my 1TB is nearly full :D
ReplyDeletewow, this is good for storage... I still want a primary SSD though
ReplyDeletei would never have to clear that again..could just have so many games installed..pure insanity
ReplyDeleteI remember when 1 GB used to be a lot to have on a computer.
ReplyDeletesoon 3 TB won't even seem like alot.
ReplyDeleteI want one... SATA is the way to go
ReplyDeletejusus 3tb
ReplyDeletei know im going to look back and 3 tb is going to be like our dad's 24mb
thats way more space than i need, but i need it anyway! =)
ReplyDeleteOh wow, 3 TB?! That's craziness.
ReplyDeletehaha 3tb's? i'still stick with my 3 cheap 1.5tb's
ReplyDeleteIf I got my self one of those I'd probably fill it up and be like:"Damn, when did this happen"
ReplyDeleteJust like with my 300gb drive. I never imagined I could fill that. Although I did use a 30gb one before that >_>
Wow, that is big!
ReplyDeleteomg that's a lot xD
ReplyDeletecant wait for these babys to become cheap :D
ReplyDeleteor available as 2.5" :P
I must say that is enormous!
ReplyDeleteThat's quite a lot, is this even needed yet?
ReplyDeleteGIEF!
ReplyDeleteLarge , and pretty cheap tbh
ReplyDeleteI know what I want for Christmas!
ReplyDeleteQuite off putting when the 2 TB are said to not last as long as they should.
ReplyDeleteHopefully they'll concentrate on much longer life span.
Damn. Getting close to my storage capacity on my four drives, lol.
ReplyDelete3 terrabytes for only 240? That's fucking amazing.
ReplyDeleteI've been waiting for these to come out. Time to replace my raid array.
ReplyDeleteMust. Have.
ReplyDeleteDamn. I'm still using a 1GB flash drive. I really should look into that.
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