hothardware.com - 1/27/2009
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A quick glance at the numbers here show this new big-boy Caviar Green drive from WD offering more than competitive performance versus the likes of Samsung's Spinpoint F1 and Seagate's Barracuda 7200.11 -- both 7200RPM-based products. HD Tach shows an average read speed of 90MB/s and average ...
hothardware.com - 1/27/2009
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hothardware.com —
Late last week Western Digital briefed us on
their forthcoming release of a new addition to their...
Caviar Green family of hard drives. No we're not talking some sort of exotic sushi or cracker-bound fish egg here either but rather a new, rather ...
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WD 2TB Caviar Green Monster Drive Preview
slashgear.com - 1/27/2009
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slashgear.com —
So the timing was off, the much-rumored 2TB
Caviar didn’t arrive two weeks ago as suggested from...
the leaks; but it’s here nevertheless. Western Digital has let the cat out of bag, announced the staggeringly huge 2TB Caviar Green storage, claiming ...
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Western Digital 2TB Green Caviar gets Official
ubergizmo.com - 1/28/2009
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ubergizmo.com —
The arms race is revived today by Western
Digital which is shipping its awaited 3.5" 2-terabyte hard...
drive. The WD Caviar Green 2TB retails for $299; 1.5TB and 1TB versions will also be available. I love the quote from Mark Geenen, president of ...
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Western Digital 2-Terabyte Hard Drive
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Western Digital WD20WEADS Is the First 2TB Internal Drive [Hard Drives]
Gizmodo —
... when 1TB, 3.5-inch drives were all the rage? Well those days are over, as Western Digital has released their 2TB Caviar Green, available now for $299. The 3.5-inch SATA drive features a 32 MB cache and about 1.8TB of actual space once you get things up and running. When Hot Hardware tested the WD drive against its 1TB, 7200RPM peers, the 2TB Caviar more than held its ground in general testing. Read more about those results in the second link. [Western Digital via Hot Hardware]
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Western Digital’s Caviar Green is industries first 2TB hard drive
Gizmo Watch —
... Less bulky and more power efficient, the Caviar Green slots in 32MB of on-board cache, and has embedded WD’s technologies like the IntelliPower, for power savings, IntellSeek, to optimize seek times, and StableTrac, for reduced vibration. The Caviar Green is up as a vibrant solution to the woes of the consumers with horded gigs of files, music, pictures and more. Available at s;eacted seller and distributors, the 2TB Caviar Green will be sale at about $299.
Via: HotHardware/Geek
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