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WD 2TB Caviar Black appears on promo card

Anonymous Coward

Mega cache! 

Posted Monday 22nd June 2009 13:13 GMT

Hard drives with 64GB caches. Wow. I gotta get me one of those!

Bernie 2

cache 

Posted Monday 22nd June 2009 13:27 GMT

"The RE4-GP 2TB model has a 64GB cache"

hmm don't think so somehow.

Jonathan Mills

RE : Mega cache! 

Posted Monday 22nd June 2009 13:29 GMT

Happy

yes, the cache runs on a spinning disk

Chris Byers

If it's as good as the Green model count me in! 

Posted Monday 22nd June 2009 13:42 GMT

Thumb Up

I have the 2TB Green running on my media PC at home. it may be a 'green' model, but it is totally silent and the performance is plenty good enough for it's purpose. If the Black model is as quiet I may well invest for my workstation!

Levente Szileszky

32GB cache? 

Posted Monday 22nd June 2009 14:08 GMT

IT Angle

'(...)but the cache runs up to 32GB(...)"

Sweet Jesus, gotta get few of these..! ;)

Craig McAllister

Someone wake up the subeditor... 

Posted Monday 22nd June 2009 15:15 GMT

...for the aforementioned cache GB/MB fubar.

still, 64MB is a lot for a spinny disk cache. For the record, SSDs usually come with more (eg. Samsung's 256GB one comes with a 128MB cache).

Craigy

Tom 35

Missed one... 

Posted Monday 22nd June 2009 16:12 GMT

They fixed the 64GB but missed the other one...

"store up to 750GB of data with a 2-16GB cache. "

Chris Mellor 1

WD's no comment comment 

Posted Tuesday 23rd June 2009 09:39 GMT

A western Digital spokesperson sent this message: "WD has definitely not announced this product. As you are aware WD do not announce a new product until the company is shipping, which is not the case today."

Chris.