A smart phone led explosion in personal data is driving hard disk drive capacities up and cost per gigabyte down. Western Digital's new 6TB WD Black hard disk drive comes with an integrated dual processor, working like a computer within the main personal computer to speed the data writing and reading process up by as much as 29 per cent. While aimed at the gamer, or professionals in need of high performance hard disk drives for inside their personal computers, the WD Black 6TB has a SATA 6 gigabits per second interface, this drive is also perfect for computers being used to store growing home media file libraries. It's ideal for storing the hundreds of smartphone photographs snapped over Christmas and the videos of sleeping grandparents. On these 6TB babies there's room for up to 1,200,000 digital photos, 1,500,000 songs in the lossy MP3 format or 150,000 uncompressed songs, up to 456 hours of Digital Video, up to 2,280 hours of DVD quality video, or up to 720 hours of HD video. With that sort of storage there's plenty of space to rip all your CDs and put them away, and download all your music and films, and still have plenty of room for the future. This is seriously the hard drive of the future. We're talking six terabytes here - LOTS of space.
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