WD is shipping world's largest capacity SATA hard drives

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Digital (WD) today
announced that the company is shipping world's largest capacity
SATA hard drive. As the latest addition to its lang="zxx">WD
Caviar
Green style="text-decoration: none;">
family of SATA hard drives, 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 lang="zxx">Advanced
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(AF) technology.

WD Caviar Green drives are
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.

“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,”
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Sushil Bandi, Country
Manager, href="https://www.dqweek.com/western-digital-appoints-redington-india-as-its-national-distributor">Western
Digital (Indian Subcontinent). “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,” concluded Bandi.