Western Digital Hard Disk Make Extra Relief

Thursday storage media manufacturer Western Digital launched a hard disk capacity of 4 TB (4000 GB). Two models are available carries different type of interface, the SATA 6 Gbps and SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) 6 Gbps.

Special models with a SAS interface, available dual-port capability. Both models with SATA or SAS interface uses 5 pieces each disc capacity of 800 GB with a rotational speed of 7200 RPM. Here are the full specs.

By Western Digital, the product capacity of 4 TB hard disk is claimed is ideal for "server, storage facilities, video kamanan, and other necessities that require large storage capacity."

More precisely, the hard disk with the extra storage space is intended for relief that is "nearline", in which the large storage capacity required but the data does not need to be frequently accessed.

Nearline was among the purposes of "immediate access" to a computer that is increasingly dominated by the SSD, as well as long-term archiving purposes which usually takes a long time to retrieve data.

On price, Western Digital mematoknya in high enough numbers in the range of 459-479 dollars.

Prior to this, one of the other hard disk manufacturers, Hitachi, has launched its first 4 TB hard disk first in the world in December 2011.

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