Solid state drives will maintain their insanely comfortable lead when it comes to outright performance but when it comes to storage sizes we won’t be seeing anything remotely inexpensive from the technology for a good long while so you’ll have to rely on some form of mechanical storage in the meantime.
The new Western Digital Caviar Black 2TB crams in an ample amount of storage space and still manages to eek out impressive speeds, well as impressive as such a drive can be. The Tech Report has a review:
The terabyte model’s platters have only 334GB each, so the new Black represents a substantial 50% jump in per-platter capacity. And there’s been an even more impressive boost in areal density. WD’s 334GB platters shoehorn 235 gigabits into every square inch, while the new ones boast an areal density of 400 GB/in²—an increase of 70%. Obviously, the potential performance implications of such a leap are quite exciting.
A slick drive with plenty of storage space and speedy enough for plenty of tasks.
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