Western Digital - High-capacity hard drive
WD is shipping the world’s largest capacity SATA hard drive. The new hard drive delivers up to a massive 3 terabytes (TB) of storage capacity by utilizing 750 GB-perplatter areal density and Advanced Format (AF) technology. WD Caviar Green drives are an eco-friendly storage solution with WD GreenPower Technology, reduces power consumption by enabling lower operating temperatures for increased reliability and decreases acoustical noise for quiet operation. The WD Caviar Green is 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. WD is bundling its WD Caviar Green 3 TB hard drive 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.
