Western Digital Builds Hi-Cap Hard Drives

The Caviar RE drives come with either Serial ATA (SATA) or EIDE interfaces and 7,200 RPM spin speed. The vendor said the new drives also have a Time Limited Error Recovery (TLER) feature, which helps prevent drive fallout caused by extended desktop hard drive error-recovery processes.

Prior to TLER inclusion, systems integrators and storage manufacturers experienced such hard-drive fallout when they used desktop drives in RAID applications. But the Caviar RE drives take into account the distinct differences between single-user and multi-user workloads to improve compatibility and reliability.

The drives carry a three-year warranty and are available in 250-, 160- and 120-gigabyte capacities.

The units are available now. Pricing for a 250-Gbyte drive with the SATA interface is $215, while a 250-Gbyte drive with an EIDE interface costs $205.

*This story courtesy of StoragePipeline.com.