Western Digital has released the world's first drive of 2 TB.

At the site of one of Australia's online store has an unusual product - a hard drive from Western Digital with a record-high volume - 2 TB. Without any high-declaration Western Digital intercepted the initiative of the former leader of capacity Seagate, which has released the first summer of the world's HDD to 1.5 TB.

Winchester giants of Western Digital include energy-saving technologies, for example, when necessary, they can switch from a speed of 7200 RPM to 5400 RPM. PCWorld Observers believe that this is, of course, help save a few watts, but did not affect the best way to hard drive performance.

It is anticipated that the new HDD to 2 TB contains four plates for the 500 GB.

With regard to the characteristics of the hard drive claimed WD20EADS, know that it supports the interface SATA 3.0 Gb / s, the amount of cache memory is 32 MB, the maximum rotational speed - 7200 RPM. The cost of the capacity of the hard drive to date - $ 250.

So far, from all major manufacturers of hard drives, only Samsung can not boast of record on capacity. Hitachi was the first company that issued the hard disk of 1 TB, Seagate terabaytny overstepped the first barrier and showed the world the first HDD to 1.5 TB, a new record for capacity HDD installed Western Digital. Without a doubt, competing companies will develop their 2 TB hard drive, and then begin the struggle for efficiency. And the world's first 2 TB hard drive remembered as the slowest.