Shipping immediately, the 2.5 Tb and 3 Tb capacity, 3.5-inch, WD AV-GP hard drives offer 24X7 reliability, low power consumption and unrivalled storage capacity for storage-intensive AV applications such as digital video recorders, video surveillance, single-drive media servers and external multimedia storage.

"Designed to go the distance in high-temperature, always-on streaming digital AV environments, WD AV-GP drives store more hi-def audio and video than ever before with our new 2.5 Tb and 3 Tb versions," said Jim Welsh, executive vice president and general manager, of WD's branded products and CE business units. "Combine unsurpassed capacity, power-saving WD Greenpower Technology, and performance capabilities to capture up to 12 simultaneous HD video streams with Silkstream technology and the drive choice is made clear in optimising AV applications like PVR/DVR, IPTV and video surveillance."

The WD AV-GP family of drives delivers 24X7 reliability along with power-saving WD Greenpower Technology. The WD AV-GP drives are field tested to have a 1.0 million hour MTBF rating.