Western Digital 3TB Hard Drive
These days many consumers and enthusiasts are looking for massive storage capacities, and for more than a year the largest capacity desktop hard drive that you could buy was 2TB. All that changed today when Western Digital announced the world’s first 3.0 Terabyte drive that is available for internal desktop use! These massive drives offer plenty of capacity for storage-intensive programs and space-hungry operating systems, like Windows 7 x64, with plenty of room left over for photos, music, and HD video content. It also makes perfect sense to use as a storage drive on a system that uses a Solid-State Drive (SSD) as the primary drive. The vast majority of SSDs are under 256GB, so it makes sense to have a nice storage drive to keep all that data you don’t need to open often. Another market that has been craving larger drives is network storage. These new 3TB drives offer 50% more storage capacity than anything on the market today, so that will greatly expand what can be stored on a NAS.
WD states that with a 3TB hard drive you can store the following:
* Up to 600,000 10MP digital photos
* Up to 750,000 4min long 128 kbps songs (MP3)
* Up to 75,000 4 min long songs (uncompressed CD quality)
* Up to 230 hours of Digital Video (DV) at 13 GB/hr
* Up to 1,150 hours of DVD quality video at 2.597 GB/hr
* Up to 360 hours of HD video at 8.3 GB/hr
Available Now at:
newegg.com
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