WD RE2 750 GB Hard Drives Deliver Cool, Fast, Reliable High-Capacity Performance

Addressing the needs for the growing enterprise market for high-capacity, highly-reliable storage, Western Digital Corp. today announced it will be shipping its WD RE2 (RAID Edition) 750 GB hard drive this month. With 3.0 Gb/s data transfer rate, WD RE2 hard drives feature Native Command Queuing (NCQ) and 16 MB cache for high system performance.

Addressing a growing high-capacity enterprise market, WD RE2 drives are reliability-rated at 1.2 million hours MTTF (mean time to failure) in high duty cycle environments. Combined with a new 750 GB capacity, this provides enterprise-class drives with reliability and other required attributes for demanding server and network-attached storage environments, such as file servers, e-mail servers and Web servers. Other proven features incorporated in the new WD RE2 750 GB hard drives include:

• SecurePark™ for improved shock characteristics
• StableTrac™ for improved vibration performance
• IntelliSeek™ to reduce power consumption, noise and vibration

Manufacturer's Suggest Retail Price (MSRP) for the WD RE2 750 GB is $265 USD (about €192).

Source: Western Digital.