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To be clear, Western Digital actually released the RE4-GP series of enterprise-class hard drives, with a max capacity of 2 terabytes. That’s two-thousand gigabytes by the way, in case you were wondering.

Aside from such roomy capacity, the RE4-GP series promises a 64MB cache (your high-end consumer-level hard drives usually features 32MB only), and a sustained transfer rate of up to 110 megabytes per second. There are four platters within the unit, each capable of storing 500GB each.

Only about 7 to 8 watts are needed to run the hard disk, highlighted as part of Western Digital’s marketing strategy to show how their products save power and thus the environment. Oh, and this is a 3.5″ hard drive, which makes it unsuitable for laptops, notebooks, and netbooks.

The price? Suggested is $329. That’s about 6.08 gigabytes to the dollar. Amazing economics, no? Just make sure to look for model number WD2002FYPS to be certain.