Since posting my Caviar Green 2TB review, I figured we would be wrapped up on Western Digital drives for a short while.  Hitting 2TB is a pretty significant milestone, and I would suspect hard drives to hang out at that capacity, since passing the 2TB barrier is a complicated proposition.

Western Digital's RE4-GP (WD2002FYPS) internal hard drive offers most of the energy-saving features of the company's Caviar Green line of consumer drives, but it also includes server-friendly features such as reduced vibration and noise.

When Seagate released their 1.5TB drive it took the storage community by surprise. At the time companies were just getting their 1TB drives perfected with second generation products starting to make their way to market.

An enterprise class drive in beefy 2TB trim

Good power saving features; Longer lasting than normal drive; Solid build quality

Not the fastest 2TB drive; Expensive in comparison

Arrived very securely packed in plastic wallet filled with air. Installation was a piece of cake. It was clean reinstallation of my system and of all software and the only problem I encountered was getting a black screen telling me that 'Diskette drive search failed'.

The Western Digital RE4-GP internal hard drive provides two terabytes of storage over four platters that spin at 7,200rpm. It's power consumption doesn't make this an environmentally friendly drive, but it has fantastic read speeds when accessing large files, making it worth consideration if you...

Getting 120Mb/s in both read and write speeds across the whole drive, much better than my old RAID 0 Raptors. Probably the fastest mechanical drive you can get without going solid state! Makes a perfect games and media drive, with BF3 maps loading in around 15 seconds.

In this review PCSTATS is testing out a 3.5" Western Digital RE4 WD1003FBYX hard drive. The WD RE4 WD1003FBYX is a 1.0TB hard drive which utilizes Perpendicular Magnetic Recording and operates on the 3Gb/s SATA II interface.

The world of enterprise data solutions may seem like a nebulous one at first but the lines between the professional and general end user markets are beginning to blur ever so slightly.

At the current time, the 4TB market is . As mentioned in the intro, three of the readily-available drives all have the WD warlord watching over them – so regardless of which one you buy, you'll ultimately be supporting the same company.