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Western Digital rolls out 2TB hard drives

Remember when you bought that PC with the 1.6 GB hard drive and said, “I’ll never fill this up.” Me too. Fortunately, hard drive manufacturers are not that short sighted. Western Digital has announced their newest and largest drive from their Caviar Green family. And at a whopping 2 TB, it will take a while to fill this one up.

The Western Digital Caviar Green hard drives use 500GB platters. It is a standard 3.5 inches in size and offers a 32MB buffer. It comes in USB, eSATA, Firewire, and internal configurations to meet a variety of needs.

2TB on a SD card in 5 years, see what’s available now

Click for a larger image.So what did the SD people have at their CES booth? They had plenty of signs and a display of devices that use SD cards like camcorders. They also had lots of information on the new standard.

CES 2009 Preview: LaCie to show off their 2TB beast

You want massive storage capacity combined with max data security? Then you definitely want to check out the latest in the line of tech by LaCie, the Hard Disk MAX. Just introduced yesterday, the MAX has a whopping 2TB of storage capacity, and implements a built in RAID 0 and RAID 1 functionality. LaCie will, more »