After 4TB hard drive released couple of weeks ago, Western Digital unveil another major milestone in personal storage device with the introduction of their first 1TB 2.5 inch hard drive. The new WD Scorpio® Blue™ SATA 2.5-inch hard drive which is also available in 750 GB capacity , is perfect match for mobile devices such as notebook and external hard disk that require massive room to store the valuable data.
Designed for portability and mobility in mind, low power consumption is among the huge advantage of the new DW Scorpio Blue. It also operate in quite and cool condition, but do not underestimate it’s performance. It can achieve a 3 gigabits per second (Gb/s) transfer rate, enough to transfer the huge data is short period of time.
Other advanced features packed into this hard drive to ensure the safety of your data all the time.
WD Scorpio Blue Features
- WhisperDrive™ - WD’s exclusive WhisperDrive technology combines state-of-the-art seeking algorithms to produce one of the quietest 2.5-inch drives available.
- ShockGuard™ - Leading-edge ShockGuard technology combines firmware and hardware advancements to meet the highest combined shock tolerance specifications required for mobile and notebook applications.
- SecurePark™ - Parks the recording heads off the disk surface during spin up, spin down and when the drive is off. This ensures the recording head never touches the disk surface, resulting in improved long-term reliability due to less head wear and improved shock tolerance.
Both hard drives are now available in Malaysia market with the price for the WD Scorpio Blue 1 TB drive is RM 899.00 and for the 750 GB version is RM 689.00. More info on WD pages.
The size of external hard disk has evolved tremendeously in the past few months. The last time when I’m on the look out for external hard disk, 2TB is the biggest back then. Today the size has doubled with the new WD Dual-Drive My Book® World Edition™ II. Don’t be surprised if the size double up again in the next few months. I’m beginning to think if there is any limit for the hard disk size?
With the price tag RM 2,199 and and RM 1,249 for 4TB and 2TB respectively, it comes with fully loaded features. Among others taken from the press release pages.
- Automatic, continuous backup for all the computers on your network;
- Dual-drive system that mirrors valuable data for extra safe data protection;
- Centralized storage and sharing for all of your family’s digital content;
- Streaming to any connected PC, Mac or DLNA certified game console or media player;
- Easy remote access to all your data from anywhere, anytime;
- Works seamlessly on networks with both Windows and Mac computers;
- Ability to centralize and stream music collection to a Mac or Windows PC using iTunes software;
- USB 2.0 port to turn any USB drive into an instant network drive or extra capacity for the My Book World Edition II;
- Cooler, quieter, eco-friendly design with drives using WD GreenPower Technology™ which run cooler, quieter and consume up to 33 percent less power2;
- User serviceable;
- Capacity gauge to see at a glance how much space is available on your drive;
- High-speed data transfer with Gigabit Ethernet; and,
- 3-year limited warranty.
For all cool features it is offering, it still looks quite pricey for normal users. But if you compare the smaller size external hard disk (I bought WD 160GB with RM165), with this monster, GB to GB it is worth every single penny you spent for it.
Just think, how long would you take to fill up 2TB or even 4TB?? Is this the drive for you??
Yes if you work from home and a few computers share the same data. Yes if you want to keep the data save (with dual-drive). And yes if you’re working with huge size of files such as photos.
It will definitely be the time when external hard disk running on network (network storage to be more accurate) becomes a common thing to have such as thumb drive or flash drive that almost everyone nowadays has. Price will literally go down with the increase in demand and stiffer competition.
*GB - GigaByte
*TB - TeraByte
Unsure of what this means, read here
After WD Caviar Green 2TB unveiled last February, the new Western Digital My Book is now available with 2 TB storage as well. It come with 3 flavors, My Book World Edition, My Book Mac Edition and My Book Studio Edition.
My Book World Edition which meant for network storage, equipped with ethernet connection capable of transfer rate 10/100/1000 Mb/s. It has USB 2.0 utility port, which can be connected to other My Book or other external drive as an additional storage. (Detail)
My Book Mac Edition is My Book for Mac. It has USB 2.0 connectivity with maximum transfer rate 480 Mb/s (Detail)
My Book Studio editon is more powerful version of My Book for Mac. There are 4 type of data transfer supported which are FireWire 800, eSATA, FireWire 400, USB 2.0. (Detail)
Price ranges from MYR1.1 k to MYR1.3 according to this source.
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