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2009 - Western Digital is the first to offer a 1 TB hard drive in a 2.5 inch form factor. [57] 2009 – Western Digital ships first HDD with dual stage piezoelectric actuator [58] 2010 – First hard drive manufactured by using the Advanced Format of 4,096‑byte sectors instead of 512‑byte sectors. [59]: Overview
Software reports hard disk drive or memory capacity in different forms using either decimal or binary prefixes. The Microsoft Windows family of operating systems uses the binary convention when reporting storage capacity, so an HDD offered by its manufacturer as a 1 TB drive is reported by these operating systems as a 931 GB HDD.
A My Passport Essential SE Edition External Hard Drive with 1 TB capacity. My Passport is a series of portable external hard drives and solid state drives produced by Western Digital. There are currently six series of My Passport drives; Essential Edition, Essential SE Edition, Elite Edition, Essential for Mac, Studio Edition and the Essential ...
In 2006, Western Digital introduced its My Book line of mass market external hard drives that feature a compact book-like design. On October 7, 2007, Western Digital released several editions of a single 1 TB hard drive, the largest in its My Book line. In 2007, Western Digital acquired magnetic media maker Komag.
In 1993, Seagate released the first Barracuda drive, with the ST11950. The drive had a capacity of 2.03 GB (1.69 GB formatted), was available with FAST SCSI-2 (N/ND models) or WIDE SCSI-2 (W/WD models) interface, and was the first hard drive ever to have a spindle speed of 7200-RPM.
Western Digital later "updated" the line by rebranding a WD Blue drive to the Z5K500.B and WD Black to Z7K500.B, the Z5K500.B can only be configured with 16 MB cache while the Z7K500.B is only available with 32MB cache. In 2017 Western Digital released the Z5K1, a 7mm 1TB hard drive that is the only HGST drive to ever feature drive-managed SMR.