We recently reported on the launch of the world’s first 2TB harddrive, from Western Digital. The drive has now been previewed over at HotHardware and even though we’re dealing with an engineering sample it still paints a pretty nice picture. The record-size storage capacity is the main attraction as it is not a performance series drive, which is emphasized by the fact it is part of the Caviar Green series.
By the looks of it the environmental focus hasn’t impaired performance to any significant degree since WD20EADS sports some competitive transfer rates, which most likely comes from WD’s new 500GB platters. Sporting record high data density the transfer rates are impressive and even if the numbers are far from the top SSDs, few other 7200RPM harddrives can keep up.
So far there are only a few synthetic benchmarks available, and a final judgment will have to wait.
