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You want your 2 TB and 7200 RPM? Now you can have it.
Want storage and speed? Up until today, if you wanted a 2 TB consumer desktop drive, you'd likely have to settle for one that not built for speed, but now you can have one that'll spin you right round at 7200 RPM.
WD today announced that it is now shipping a desktop Caviar Black 7200 RPM 2 TB hard drive (model WD2001FASS), composed of four 500 GB platters, 64 MB cache, dual stage actuator technology, and SATA 3 Gb/sec. interface.
"WD Caviar Black 2 TB hard drives maximize the features and functionality of power computing applications such as gaming, photo editing, user generated multimedia and video," said Jim Morris, senior vice president and general manager of WD's client storage systems. "With the selection of WD Caviar Black hard drives, WD desktop customers receive the best possible mix of capacity, performance and reliability that is required for intense desktop computing."
For enterprise-class needs, WD is now qualifying the RE4 2 TB (model WD2003FYYS), which is suited for servers, network attached storage and storage networks. The WD RE4 2 TB drives feature similar features as the Caviar Black with a 7200 RPM spin speed and 64 MB cache and also add a more hardy 1.2 million hours MTBF, Active Power Save, among other features.
The WD Caviar Black 2 TB GB is available at an MSRP of $299.
Source : Tom's Hardware US
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Drive Comparison Table ManufacturerSamsungSamsung Western DigitalWestern DigitalModelEcoGreen F1 EcoGreen F2 WD Caviar GreenWD Caviar GreenModel NumberHD103UIHD502HIWD10EADSWD20EADSForm Factor3.5"3.5"3.5"3.5"Capacity1000 GB500 GB1000 GB2000 GBSpindle Speed5,400 RPM5,400 RPM5,400 RPM5,400 RPMOther Capacities250, 320, 500, 640, 750 GB1000, 1500 GB1500, 2000 GB1000, 1500 GBPlatters3134Cache32 MB16 MB32 MB32 MBNCQYesYesYesYesInterfaceSATA/300SATA/300SATA/300SATA/300Operating Temperature0-60° C0-60° C5-55°C0-60° CSpecified Idle Power5.0 W3.9 W2.8 W3.9 WMeasured Idle Power4.3W3.12.8 W5.2Operating shock (2 ms, read)70 G70 G65 G65 GWarranty3 years3 years3 years3 years Test Setup System HardwareHardwareDetailsCPUIntel Core i7-920 (45 nm, 2.66 GHz, 8 MB L2 Cache)Motherboard (Socket 1366)Supermicro X8SAXRevision: 1.0Chipset: Intel X58 + ICH10RBios: 1.0BRAM2 GB DDR3-1333 Corsair CM3X1024-1333C9DHXHDDSeagate NL35 400 GBST3400832NS7,200 RPM, SATA150, 8 MBPower SupplyOCZ EliteXstream 800 W OCZ800EXS-EU BenchmarksPerformance Measurementsh2benchw 3.12PCMark Vantage 1.0I/O PerformanceIOMeter 2006.07.27Fileserver-BenchmarkWebserver-BenchmarkDatabase-BenchmarkWorkstation-BenchmarkStreaming ReadsStreaming Writes System Software and DriversDriverDetailsOperating SystemWindows Vista Ultimate SP1Intel Chipset9.1.0.1007AMD GraphicsRadeon 8.12Intel Matrix Storage8.7.0.1007
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Wow... looks like a sweet drive! Still, the best price/performance point right now is in the 750GB - 1TB range.
That's pretty cheap for a 2TB hdd! I would much rather prefer this hard drive over an intel X25-E SSD. Anyone with me?
DO WANT! 500GB platter and a 64MB cache sounds fantastic. Looks like I found my next storage drive for HD videos.
That's pretty cheap for a 2TB hdd! I would much rather prefer this hard drive over an intel X25-E SSD. Anyone with me?
Well... that's kinda like saying you'd much rather have a Ford Expedition XL, than a Lamborghini Gallardo. It's really an apples and oranges comparison as each is designed to accomplish something completely different. In the case of SSD drives, it is speed and low-power consumption. In the case of a 2TB drive, it is capacity (with some speed since this puppy is a 7200RPM drive).
But, yes, I'd much prefer to put my money into capacity at this point.
FINALLY
I bet by the end of the year or early next year that drive will be $199
. I am going to try and hold out.
I see the next multiple winner of the Customer Choice Award on NewEgg right here.
"The WD Caviar Black 2 TB GB is available at an MSRP of $299."
lawl..
2 TB GB? Is that like saying 2 trillion billion? As in 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes? WOW!! Thats a mighty big HDD for $299! I'm gonna have to get me several of 'em at that price point per TB
But seriously. Nice.. I will have to look into them... When they are a little cheaper. $299 is just too much.
i want 12 of these and 2 areca 8 port cards... stat!
"The WD Caviar Black 2 TB GB is available at an MSRP of $299."2 TB GB? Is that like saying 2 trillion billion? As in 2,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes? WOW!! Thats a mighty big HDD for $299! I'm gonna have to get me several of 'em at that price point per TB lawl..But seriously. Nice.. I will have to look into them... When they are a little cheaper. $299 is just too much.
Fix'd. lol
As in 2,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes? WOW!!
I think it's easier just to say a 2 ZB (zettabyte) drive.
I wouldn't mind seeing tom's review this and compare it to other slower drives. then maybe I would consider it.
500gb single platter version, please...
I can't believe the price neither, but I wonder if this drive has some issues?
I also wonder how long this drive will hold all of the data on the disk before one finds the first corrupted clusters...
Drives from the '80's easily kept data in tact for many years!
In fact some of those drives could run their data flawlessly today (be it in capacities lower than 1GB).
But with the increased density, I have had multiple issues of corrupted data. Everyone knows that if you start collecting data today, it will take you at least a couple of years before the harddrive will be filled (unless you back up other harddrives on them).
By the time I'd be thinking about buying a new storage device like this, it may be that the first data backed up on this drive would have gone corrupt.
Sweet, this will drive the 1TB price down even more. I'm waiting for 1 TB HDDs to be around $50-55 no rebate.
PRON!
Sweet, this will drive the 1TB price down even more. I'm waiting for 1 TB HDDs to be around $50-55 no rebate.
Damn skippy! That'll be sweet. 5x 1TB RAID 5... here I come!
I'm still pretty far away from filling up my 1TB drive. I can't even imagine all the crap I can put on a 2TB. I know it's excessive, and I don't need it, but I kinda want one now
. Realistically though I'll be with my 1TB drive for a while.
2 TB for 300 bucks at 7200rpm
now make SSDs cheaper please 
I will get it if its around 200-250 bux.
get like 5 of these and setup a hardware RAID .... fuxk SSD.
Agreed with CChick. SSD's aren't worth double or triple the price for half to equal size of there spindle big brother, especially when in the most common consumer RAID0 array the arguement is almost mute.
Perfectly happy with my 3 x 640GB WD Black drives 16MB Cache RAID0 system. Grease lightning doesn't have $@#% on me
My 2 velociraptors in Raid 0 are still faster, so blah!
When will the revamped 500GB and 1TB drives with the 500GB platter be available? Would be nice to have two single platter 500GB caviar black drives running in RAID 0.........
Nice, yes but cheap, no way! You can get 2x1TB WD black for less than 220$ and that would be my choice anytime, because it is safer in case of disk failure.
Still waiting on a 9mm high 1tb notebook drive...The only 1tb notebook drives out are 12.5mm high.
Nice, yes but cheap, no way! You can get 2x1TB WD black for less than 220$ and that would be my choice anytime, because it is safer in case of disk failure.
how? you have TWICE the chance of loosing HALF the data.
I don't know about you, but i'm rather fond of ALL my data.
there are advantages of 1 drive vs 2 half size drives as well that make the price justifiable:
half the power, half the noise, half the weight and drive bay slots used, and most importantly, you don't have to bother organizing your data across two partitions.
I was just getting used to the idea of spending $300AUS on the green power one. but as it would be my main drive I now really want this! but the price!! but I'm not going to say its too expensive just cause I don't want to pay that much for one.
how? you have TWICE the chance of loosing HALF the data.I don't know about you, but i'm rather fond of ALL my data.there are advantages of 1 drive vs 2 half size drives as well that make the price justifiable:half the power, half the noise, half the weight and drive bay slots used, and most importantly, you don't have to bother organizing your data across two partitions.I was just getting used to the idea of spending $300AUS on the green power one. but as it would be my main drive I now really want this! but the price!! but I'm not going to say its too expensive just cause I don't want to pay that much for one.
Anything that I deemed valuable, I would ALWAYS have a two or more drive setup. When it comes to the home computer user, RAID 1 or even RAID 10 is where I place my faith. If you only have one drive, and it fails, there is no backup for you period - your data is gone.
how? you have TWICE the chance of loosing HALF the data.I don't know about you, but i'm rather fond of ALL my data..
Now That is a strange logic!! but I would put it in different approach: In your case it is everything or nothing.
In my approach: it is everything or half the things.
and since you chose Black then the power should be your least concern besides we don't know yet the power consumption figures of the new drive and the same thing can be said about the noise levels. and about the weight!! (nice one!), and regarding the bay slots I would be delighted to fill a wasted space!
$200 and I'll buy some
Anyone else thinks we're slowly getting ripped off by hdd manufacturers with their ever increasing hdd capacities? 2TB is measured in decimal. In binary, this is roughly equivalent to 1.82 TiB so that's about 180 GiB short from this 2TB that the drive is claiming to have. It might not sound like much but 180 GiB could well be someone's whole hard disk capacity. Imagine in a couple of years time when they roll out a 20TB hdd.........
299$ = FAIL