Western Digital Offers First 2 Terabyte Drives

[Lemur]

Be still my beating heart ...

WD's new 2TB drive offers a total of 32MB of cache and is a four-platter design (500GB per platter); areal density is up to 400GB/inch2. The earliest 1TB drives used five platters; Western Digital's 2TB Green is, in some sense, a bit ahead of the original 1TB curve. [...]

With economic times as nasty as they've been recently, Western Digital is rumored to be considering a series of unique marketing incentives to boost consumer uptake of the new hard drive. Ars has been quietly informed that should one proposed initiative be adopted, the first 69 buyers at every outlet where Western Digital products are sold would be rewarded with a 2TB Green "Not Kanye West" Western Digital hard drive, featuring samples, teasers, and trailers for all the self-produced porn (bisexual and otherwise) found within the artist's various e-mail accounts. It should be noted that West vehemently denies producing or starring in any of the videos and has publicly fingered "some hacker."

Okay, so the last bit is weird. But there's nothing strange about two terabytes in a svelte package! Bring on the 1080p pornography!