Western Digital has announced that it has expanded its lineup of drives with new 8TB capacity HelioSeal drives for NAS, video surveillance and desktop external applications.

To be available in the first half of this year, WD's My Cloud personal storage devices (My Cloud, My Cloud Mirror, My Cloud EX2 Ultra), My Book external hard drives (My Book, My Book for Mac, My Book Duo and My Book Pro), WD Red, WD Red Pro and WD Purple hard drives will be expanded with the new "high-capacity" configuration.

Each of these Western Digital lineups will be getting the new 8TB HelioSeal helium-technology HDDs as well as be designed for certain applications.

Western Digital has released a complete list of external and internal HDDs that will be increased to 8TB or 16TB (with two 8TB HDDs in RAID 0):

External Hard Drives

My Book/My Book for Mac -- An external hard drive solution that provides complete backup and storage with USB connectivity.
My Book Duo/My Book Pro - Dual-drive external hard drive solutions which provide ultra-fast storage in RAID-0 and complete backup and storage with USB and/or Thunderbolt connectivity and up to 16 TB capacity.
My Cloud/My Cloud Mirror - A personal storage device that plugs into your router at home to provide consumers with their very own private cloud.
My Cloud EX2 Ultra - As part of the creative professional series of My Cloud products, the My Cloud EX2 Ultra provides high-performance two-bay network attached storage.

Internal Hard Drives

WD Purple - Engineered for 24/7, always-on, high-definition surveillance security systems that use up to eight hard drives and up to 32 cameras
WD Red - Optimized for personal, home and small business NAS (network attached storage) systems
WD Red Pro - Optimized for small business and enterprise class NAS systems with high performance and reliability.

Western Digital also noted that the My Book and My Book for Mac 8TB are currently already avaialle in the US with a price set at US $299.99 for both drives.



Source: WDC.com.