Western Digital has withstood the test of time as not only a manufacturer of hard drives, but a market-leader. The first drive in my very first PC was a Western Digital – I’ve always had good luck with their drives being long-lasting and good on the performance aspect.

Its latest 2TB drive uses the same features as the previous-gen 1TB drive used and that’s not a bad thing at all. 64MB of cache doubles the 32MB found on today’s 1TB drives – from any manufacturer; however, is quite needed because of the doubling of capacity. WD also has some “green” technologies on the drive which may be important to the business world but most likely won’t mean jack to an end-user as most of them aren’t running huge RAID arrays that are on 24/7 and raising the power bill.

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