Staff Techdrunk 
Western Digital has launched industry’s first 2TB enterprise class hard drive “WD RE4-GP” in the Indian market. Regard as next generation’s storage device, it has 3.5 inch hard drive platform, 64 MB cache, dual processors and an increased area density. The company claims that drive has double processing power in comparison to the other hard drives in the market and ensures 25% performance improvement.
Here are some of its features:
- Supports WDs green power technology.
- Minimizes the average drive power consumption up to 50%.
- Has power conserving technologies like IntelliSeek, IntelliPark and IntelliPower.
- Offering 1.2 million hours MTBF.
- Ideal for cloud computing infrastructure, tape replacement systems, digital video editing houses, video survellence place and large scale data centers.
- Ability to overcome limited available drive slots and maximum capacity requirement.
- Improved rotary vibration tolerance for high performance under extreme vibration conditions.
- Active power management between drive and host controller.
- Supports RAID Specific time limited error recovery.
- Stable Trac for securing the motor shaft at both ends.
- Rotary Acceleration Feed Forward for optimized operation and performance.
Sharad Srivastava, Director Sales, Western Digital said, “Every data center emits CO2 and storage systems are the main part of these data centers. While many storage applications are meant for high capacity, low power consuming disk drives like WD RE4-GP3 helps in reducing the power consumption and impacting the environment positively. The customers who want to reduce the carbon footprint without even compromising on the performance and reliability factor look for other alternatives. our drives meet their requirements of storage capacity, performance, reliability and cost”.
The WD RE4-GP 2 TB hard drive is available at a price of Rs. 19,556 in Indian market.
