If one is to believe a "leaked" roadmap on Russian website Always More Digital Western Digital is set to release 5TB HDDs in 2013-- with slides showing the future of both Green desktop and Red NAS 3.5-inch drives.
The supposed Green drive roadmap mentions the release of a 4TB WD40EZRX with 64MB cashe and SATA III interface on Q3 2013, before a 5TB W5OEZRX with the same cache and interface hits the market on Q4 2012.
Meanwhile the Red drive roadmap shows an identical release schedule for similar (in both size, cache and interface) drives.
The roadmap looks realistic enough, if for one issue-- will WD really leave just a 3 month gap between the release of drives with 4 and 5TB capacities?
WD so far refuses to comment on the speculation, but we wouldn't be too surprised if it (or rivals such as Seagate or Toshiba) end up doing what such rumours suggest.
