WD delivers world’s thinnest 1 TB hard drive

MANILA, Philippines - WD, a Western Digital company, has announced at Computex Taipei 2013 it is shipping the world’s thinnest 1 TB hard drive with its new 2.5-inch WD Blu 7-mm hard drive.

Offering OEMs, channel integrators and consumers a unique storage solution for thin and light systems, slimmer notebooks, as well as compatibility with the industry-standard 9.5-mm drive slots of mainstream notebooks, the WD Blue hard drive family, in capacities from 320 GB to 1 TB in the 7-mm height, now provides a singular option of thin design and high capacity storage.

“Users with large portfolios of content no longer need to sacrifice capacity when buying an ultrabook or upgrading to a thin and light notebook,” said Matt Rutledge, WD vice president and general manager for client storage products.

“This most compact 1 TB hard drive to date offers manufacturers of systems an upsell path for their customers who will now be able to choose systems offering both sleek design and high capacity,” Rutledge added.

“Intel is introducing its fourth-generation Intel Core processor family (codenamed Haswell) to deliver faster and more efficient performance to both desktop and notebook platforms, with significant gains benefitting portable systems” said Roger Bradford, Intel capabilities marketing manager.

“The release of the WD Blue 7-mm hard drives offers a new level of storage capacity that further enriches the computing experience for users of ultrabooks, all-in-ones and other thin and light PCs,” he said.

Features of the WD Blue 7-mm hard drives include:

• Shock tolerance. WD’s ShockGuard technology protects the drive mechanics and platter surfaces from shocks.

• Cool and quiet. WD’s exclusive WhisperDrive technology enables quiet performance.

• StableTrac. The motor shaft is secured at both ends to compensate for system-induced vibration and stabilize platters for accurate tracking during read and write operations, enabling consistently higher performance.

• Dual stage actuators. Leveraged from enterprise-class drives, dual stage actuators utilize two actuators to improve positional accuracy over the data track(s). The primary actuator provides coarse displacement using conventional electromagnetic actuator principles. The secondary actuator uses piezoelectric motion to fine-tune the head positioning to a higher degree of accuracy.

• Reliable. WD’s SecurePark parks the recording heads off the disk surface during spin up, spin down, and when the drive is off. This ensures the recording head never touches the disk surface, resulting in improved long-term reliability due to less head wear, and improved non-operational shock tolerance.

• Compatibility tested. WD performs tests on hundreds of systems and a multitude of platforms in its FIT Lab and Mobile Compatibility Lab to give customers confidence that drives will work in specific systems.

Shipping now through select distributors and resellers, the new 1 TB WD Blue 7-mm 2.5-inch mobile hard drive is covered by a two-year limited warranty. MSRP for the 1 TB (model WD10SPCXX) is P6,990.

For more information on WD Blue mobile hard drives and limited warranty terms, log on to http://www.wd.com/en/products.aspx?id=800.