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Introduction

Earlier this week, Western Digital announced two new additions to their 2 TB product lines.  These new models nudge up the capacity of their Caviar Black and RE (not REx-GP) lines, bringing 2 TB capacities to every series except for their Blue line.  Western Digital passed us a few samples to check out, so we pushed hard to get results out to our readers.

I maintain my prediction that we still have some time before hard drives ship at greater than 2 TB capacities.  As I've stated before, many widely used operating systems are unable to handle more than 2^32 sectors (2048 GB), so drive manufacturers will likely stop for a breather at the 2.0 TB mark.

Enough meandering from me.  Lets get into the benches!

Next Page - Specs, Testing Methodology and System Setup

Review Index:
- Select - Introduction Specs, Testing Methodology and System Setup PCPer File Copy Test HDTach 3.0.4.0 HDTune 3.50 PCMark05 IOMeter v2006.07.27 - IOps IOMeter - Average Transaction Time Yapt v0.3 Conclusion and Final Thoughts