Western Digital could be set to add a 2TB model to its Caviar Black range, if a picture of a promotion card in Japan is to be believed. Up until now WD has reserved the 2TB capacity for its desktop Caviar Green range, spinning at 5,400rpm. This is used in WD's MyBook World Edition shared home backup product. WD also has an …

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Monday 22nd June 2009 13:13 GMT Anonymous Coward

Mega cache!

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

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Monday 22nd June 2009 13:27 GMT Bernie 2

cache

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

hmm don't think so somehow.

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Monday 22nd June 2009 13:29 GMT Jonathan Mills

RE : Mega cache!

yes, the cache runs on a spinning disk

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Monday 22nd June 2009 13:42 GMT Chris Byers

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

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!

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Monday 22nd June 2009 14:08 GMT Levente Szileszky

32GB cache?

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

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

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Monday 22nd June 2009 15:15 GMT Craig McAllister

Someone wake up the subeditor...

...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

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Monday 22nd June 2009 16:12 GMT Tom 35

Missed one...

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

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

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Tuesday 23rd June 2009 09:39 GMT Chris Mellor 1

WD's no comment comment

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.

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