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 Mumbai: Western Digital Corp. (NYSE: WDC) has announced the launch of WD Caviar raid edition (RE) hard drives, which are designed and manufactured to enterprise-class standards for high reliability in a host of server applications including e-mail, file, video and Web servers, and demanding environments such as scientific computing, enterprise backup, document image management, engineering data management. Currently shipping in volume, WD Caviar RE drives are equipped with either serial ATA (SATA) or eide interfaces and 7,200 RPM spin speed.
According to Gartner Dataquest estimates, the consumption of desktop-class ATA-interface hard drives in multi-user storage systems compound annual growth rate of 26.1 per cent from 2004 through 2008 for. (Gartner Dataquest, March 2004) With one million hours MTBF (mean time between failure), WD Caviar RE drives offer systems builders and storage system manufacturers, high reliability in high-duty cycle applications, where round-the-clock performance and high reliability are critical. WD also built into its new RE drives a time limited error recovery (TLER) feature, which helps prevent drive fallout caused by extended desktop hard drive error-recovery processes. WD Caviar RE drives carry a three-year warranty and are offered in capacities of 250, 160 and 120 GB. WD's FIT Lab (Functional Integrity Testing Lab) performed rigorous and extensive testing in order to certify one million hours MTBF and ensure it's new RE hard drives are optimised for use in server environments. Before WD's development of TLER, systems integrators and storage manufacturers commonly experienced hard drive fallout when using desktop drives in RAID (redundant array of independent disks) applications. By taking into account the distinct differences between single-user and multi-user workloads, WD | 
