Logitec Japan today announced a new set of 5 1.5TB external hard disk drives with a choice between a USB 2.0 only enclosure, or a FireWire 400 and USB 2.0, a eSATA and USB 2.0, and a eSATA only. The LHD-ED Series is also available in smaller capacities starting at 250GB.
There’s no veil of secrecy covering this one, but Western Digital has finally come clean with the industry’s first 2TB internal hard drive. Launched today in the USA, the planet’s highest capacity single HDD — otherwise known as the 2TB Caviar Green ($299; available now) — sits on a 3.5-inch platform, includes 32MB of cache and is based around WD’s 500GB per platter technology (with 400Gb/in2 areal density). HotHardware was able to take a sneak peek at this here device (a pre-engineering sample, as it were), and was gracious enough to host up some juicy benchmark results for those eager to see how this capacious beast performed. Against the formidable Spinpoint F1 (Samsung) and Barracuda 7200.11 (Seagate), the WD managed to hold its own, which is saying a lot for a drive of this magnitude.
LAKE FOREST, Calif. - Jan. 27, 2009 - WD (NYSE: WDC) today announced the first 2 terabyte (TB) hard drive – the world’s highest capacity drive and the latest addition to WD’s popular, environmentally friendly, cool and quiet, WD® Caviar® Green™ hard drive family. This new 3.5-inch platform is based on WD’s industry-leading 500 GB/platter technology (with 400 Gb/in2 areal density) with 32 MB cache, producing drives with capacities of up to 2 TB.
“While some in the industry wondered if the end consumer would buy a 1 TB drive, already some 10 percent of 3.5-inch hard drive sales are at the 1 TB level or higher, serving demand from video applications and expanding consumer media libraries,” said Mark Geenen, President of Trend Focus. “The 2 TB hard drives will continue to satisfy end user’s insatiable desire to store more data on ever larger hard drives.”
WD Caviar Green is one of the most successful product lines in the company’s recent history with its third-generation GreenPower™ technology, now providing 2 TB of proven reliable storage for today’s high-resolution files and graphics. WD Caviar Green drives are designed for use in USB/FireWire®/eSATA external hard drives, desktop computers, workstations, and desktop RAID environments.
“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 2 TB 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 Jim Morris, WD senior vice president and general manager of client systems.
Rock Solid Mechanical Architecture, Cool, Quiet Hard Drives
A number of advanced technologies enable the speed, capacity and performance of WD’s Caviar Green 1.5 TB and 2 TB hard drives. Those include: StableTrac™, which secures the motor shaft at both ends to reduce system-induced vibration and stabilize platters for accurate tracking during read and write operations ; IntelliPower™, which fine-tunes the balance of spin speed, transfer rate and caching algorithms designed to deliver both significant power savings and solid performance; IntelliSeek™, which calculates optimum seek speeds to lower power consumption, noise, and vibration; and NoTouch™ ramp load technology, which is designed to ensure the recording head never touches the disk media resulting in significantly less wear to the recording head and media, as well as better drive protection while in transit.
Availability and Pricing
The WD Caviar Green 2 TB is available at select resellers and distributors. MSRP for the WD Caviar Green 2 TB hard drives (model WD20EADS) is $299.00 USD. More information about WD Caviar Green desktop drives may be found on the company’s Web site at http://wdc.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=576
About WD
WD, one of the storage industry’s pioneers and long-time leaders, provides products and services for people and organizations that collect, manage and use digital information. The company produces reliable, high-performance hard drives that keep users’ data accessible and secure from loss. WD applies its storage expertise to consumer products for external, portable and shared storage applications.
WD was founded in 1970. The company’s storage products are marketed to leading systems manufacturers, selected resellers and retailers under the Western Digital® and WD brand names. Visit the Investor section of the company’s Web site (www.westerndigital.com) to access a variety of financial and investor information.
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Western Digital, WD, the WD logo and WD Caviar are registered trademarks of Western Digital Technologies, Inc. in the US and other countries; Green, IntelliPower, IntelliSeek, NoTouch, StableTrac, and GreenPower are trademarks of Western Digital Technologies, Inc. All other trademarks herein are property of their respective owner. As used for storage capacity, one megabyte (MB) = one million bytes, one gigabyte (GB) = one billion bytes, and one terabyte (TB) = one trillion bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending on operating environment. As used for buffer or cache, one megabyte (MB) = 1,048,576 bytes.
Just as we’d heard, Western Digital is indeed producing (and shipping) a standalone 2TB internal hard drive. Available now for purchase from Mwave Australia, the 3.5-inch WD20EADS sports a 7,200RPM spin speed, 32MB of cache and a AU$377.80 price tag, which converts to just under $250 in greenbacks. We get the feeling that this drive is just hours away from launching here in the US of A (we’re guessing the time zones are to blame), so we’ll be keeping a close eye out for early reports on performance.
Brando offers a 3.5 inch hard drive enclosure that features an LCD display that shows you the drive’s current state including temperature, fan rotation speed and a built-in warning system. This hard drive enclosure also has an 8cm fan to keep the drive chilled. You can bring home this HDD enclosure for $85 (Hard drive is not included)
This 1.5TB external hard drive can survive fire, water, plague, and another space-invading movie. The 1.5TB ioSafe Solo hard drive has been toughened to cope with nine out of ten Biblical plagues. ioSafe is so confident of the Solo’s ability to withstand divine judgment that it’s offering a Disaster Recovery Service providing up to $1,000 of third-party forensic drive data recovery service should the ioSafe Solo be damaged and the company unable to recover your information. ioSafe’s patented FloSafe cooling vent technology provides air-flow cooling to dissipate heat during normal operation. FloSafe technology also has the ability to detect destructive heat levels and automatically close the vents to protect data from fire.
Logitec today released a 2.5 inch 500GB external hard disk drive. There are two model including USB 2.0 only HDD case or a USB and FireWire 400. The Logitec 2.5 Inch 500GB external HDD measures at 78 mm x 132 mm x 20mm and weights at 170 grams and retails for approx. €200. [Logitec]
Western Digital has known that Seagate was toiling away in hopes of being the first to market with a standalone 2TB hard drive, and evidently it has chosen to work its engineers that much harder. In a presumed effort to beat Hitachi (and everyone else) to the 2TB barrier, WD is reportedly aiming to launch its Caviar Green 2000GB WD20EADS later this week, and with it will come 32MB of cache, an 8.9-millisecond seek time and an expected price tag of around €170 ($224). Best of all? It should be “available immediately” just as soon as it’s outed for real.
The last time we heard from ioSafe they were taking 2.5-inch HDDs, wrapping them in armor, then stuffing them into 3.5-inch enclosures — adding fire and water protection in a standard form factor. Now they’ve given up on the internal route and have gone for something a little larger and more durable, fitting Western Digital or Seagate disks into hardened external USB 2.0 cases capable of being submersed in ten feet of water for three days or surviving a raging inferno for 30 minutes. $199 gets you a 500GB model, but, since you’d probably have a hard time upgrading the drive in there without a jackhammer, we’d recommend going straight for the $349 1.5TB model — early adopters get a tidy $50 off!
Western Digital today introduced two new external hard drives — the My Passport for Mac portable drive and the My Book Mac Edition external hard drive. Pre-formatted for Mac and offering a simple USB interface, these drives offer the ever-growing Mac community reliable, easy-to-use storage. WD’s latest Mac-ready drives work seamlessly with Apple Time Machine or other popular Mac backup software to provide protection for consumers’ valuable digital photos and media. My Passport for Mac portable storage devices feature a sleek design in a shock-resistant enclosure and are available in capacities of 320 GB and 500 GB. 
LaCie already delivered two new pieces in its collection yesterday, but apparently the 2big Quadra simply demanded its very own day of promotion. The classically styled (thanks, Neil Poulton) drive arrives with twin bays for up to 3TB of storage and support for four RAID modes including the traditional RAID 0 / 1. Transfer speeds can hit up to 165MB/sec through eSATA (3Gbits/sec in RAID 0), and the quadruple interface — USB 2.0, eSATA, FireWire 400 and FireWire 800 — means that whatever machine you happen upon will likely be equipped to handle it. Moreover, it’s fully compatible with Apple’s Time Machine software and comes bundled with Genie Backup Manager Pro / Intego Backup Manager Pro for those in need. It’ll be yours for the taking later this month (in 1TB, 2TB and 3TB sizes) starting at $299.99.
Seagate has announced that it is shipping the densest 3.5 inch desktop hard drive available - cramming an incredible 329 gigabits per square inch. The company has achieved this feat thanks to achieving an areal density of 329 Gigabits per square inch on its latest platters - the highest the industry has seen to date. The higher areal density should mean higher performance and potentially lower power consumption from fewer platters. Seagate claims the drive hits sustained data rates of 160MB/sec, up from the 115MB/sec of its previous 1TB drive.
Two new ones have arrived today from the labs of LaCie, and neither are destined to ever end up inside of your PC. Up first, we’ve got the slightly speedier d2 external DVD±RW drive with LightScribe, which toasts discs at up to 22x and connects to PCs via USB 2.0 or FireWire (400, presumably). For those in need of HDD-based storage, the glossy black Hard Disk MAX comes with a pair of 1TB drives that can be set in either a RAID 0 or RAID 1 configuration with the simple flick of a switch on the back panel. There’s also a USB port on the front for additional expansion, and the USB 2.0 socket ’round back is what links it up with your computer. Both are available right now for $119.99 / $269.99, respectively
Here’s a cool portable hard disk drive for storage craving people like you. The Seagate FreeAgent Go 500gig hard drive is now up for only $129.99, that’s $149.99 - $20 off instantly. What’s more, you’ll get FREE Seagate Docking Station & Travel Case ($25 value) with purchase and FREE shipping. The bus-powered drive features 500GB storage capacity, USB 2.0 480Mbps interface, 5,400RM spindle speed, and 16MB Cache.
Transcend tries to amuse World of Warcraft fans with the release of a 2.5 inch World Of Warcraft Hard Drive that comes pre-loaded with the entire second expansion set of the game, known as Wrath of the Lich King. This limited edition World of Warcraft bundle will come with Transcend’s lightweight shock-proof SJ25M 2.5 inch portable hard drive that adopts an advanced two-stage anti-shock technology. It is currently available in 160GB, 250GB, 320GB and 500GB storage capacities.
Think your Blu-ray disc is the bomb? Well, it is time to tuck your tail between your legs as Pioneer parades its 16-layer optical disc that is able to hold a whopping 400GB worth of data. This technology owes much to Blu-ray though, although it uses a totally different material to make up its reflective layers despite relying on similar Blu-ray specifications where the pick-up head (PUH) of the disc is concerned. That would mean being able to read these Pioneer discs on Blu-ray players that are in the market. Pioneer’s internal roadmap show that its super multi-layer technology development will ready read-only (ROM) discs in 2008 to 2010, while rewritable discs will make a splash in 2010 to 2012 and the coveted 1TB (1,000GB) disc in 2013.
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