engadget.com - 1/14/2009
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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 ...
en.expreview.com - 1/13/2009
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Last December, the etailer Czech Computer ever reveiled
Western Digital’s 2TB hard drive (Model: WD20EADS). Now, we...
finally get some exact information about this large-capacity drive. Coming from Western Digital’s Caviar Green Series, ...
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Western Digital to Launch 2TB Hard Drive This Week
fudzilla.com - 1/13/2009
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Home WD's mammoth 2TB drive to launch this
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January 2009 19:01 Image It's never enough Western Digital will launch its 2TB hard drive later this week, and it should be available immediately. The ...
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WD's mammoth 2TB drive to launch this week
tomshardware.com - 1/13/2009
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With High Definition content being stored on hard
drives more and more frequently, and the latest games...
having increasingly large installations, hard drive space fills up quickly. Western Digital comes to the rescue with the first 2 TB hard drive ...
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Western Digital to Unveil 2 TB HDD this Week
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Western Digital Said to be Readying 2TB Green Hard Drive
I4U News —
... hard drive right now, which is the high capacity king for the moment. Engadget reports that it hears rumblings that Seagate may soon lose the title of highest capacity drive to Western Digital as it readies a 2TB Caviar Green hard drive. Engadget reports that WD is set to launch its 2TB Caviar Green WD20EADS hard drive this week. Features are said to include 32MB of cache, an 8.9ms seek time and a price of around $224. The drive will also be available as soon as it is launched. Via Engadget Posted on Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:00:00 CST | by Shane McGlaun ...
Western Digital 2TB HDD Coming This Week?
Overclockers Club news Feed —
... The race to hit the 2TB barrier appears to be hotting up somewhat, with Seagate already having announced platters which cram in 500GB of data and now rumours that Western Digital may be the first one to get there with the release of a 2TB version of its Green Power hard drive later this week. The drive (model number WD20EADS) will come with 32MB of cache, an 8.9ms seek time and an expected price of around $224. Drives current top out at 1.5TB, so that extra 500GB would mean more room for high definition movies or whatever else you use that gobbles up all your ...
Western Digital's 2TB Caviar Green HDD on sale in Australia
Engadget —
... 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. ...
Western Digital's 2TB Caviar Green hard drive launches, gets previewed
Engadget —
... 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 ...
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Western Digital's 2TB Caviar Green HDD on sale in Australia
engadget.com 1/27/2009 —
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 ...
Western Digital Scorpio Blue 500GB —
Maximum PC all RSS Feed 1/13/2009
Sometimes it’s OK not to take the medal stand in the race to get a product out first. Take the case of Western Digital’s new 5,400rpm Scorpio Blue 500GB notebook drive. It’s the fourth 500GB mobile drive to hit the market, after Hitachi’s ...
Hello Tosh, wanna a disk business? —
The Register 1/14/2009
Fujitsu may sell part of HHD business to Toshiba Having failed to sell of its hard disk drive business to Western Digital Fujitsu is now trying to sell part of it to Toshiba. The result would be the world's largest supplier of 2.5-inch drives.…
Top Seagate Honchos Resign —
Maximum PC all RSS Feed 1/14/2009
The world’s largest manufacturer of hard-disk drives took everyone by surprise on Monday when it announced that it had replaced two of its topmost executives , CEO William Watkins and COO Dave Wickersham. Chairman Stephen Luczo, who was CEO prior ...
Seagate cuts go deep —
The Register 1/14/2009
3,000 axed - not 800 Going further than its previous 10 per cent US workforce cut targeted by a recent SEC filing , Seagate has made another filing saying 6 per cent of its worldwide workforce will go and executives and other professionals will ...
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