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Is your collection of “media” growing at an exponential rate? Western Digital could have what you’re looking for, as it launches the industry’s first 2 TB hard disk drive.
Western Digital’s first 2 TB hard drive (model WD20EADS) makes use of the company’s 500 GB/platter technology (with 400 Gb/in2 areal density), with a set of four to make up the massive capacity. The drive will feature a 32 MB cache.
Most computer users are still running modestly sized drives in comparison to WD’s new offering, and seem to be managing fine. Will there ever be a real need to hit 2 TB when even 1 TB seems like a luxury? Mark Geenen, president of Trend Focus, says more and more people are taking to the roominess.
"While some in the industry wondered if the end consumer would buy a 1 TB drive, already some 10 percent of 3.5-inch hard drive sales are at the 1 TB level or higher, serving demand from video applications and expanding consumer media libraries," said Geenen. "The 2 TB hard drives will continue to satisfy end user's insatiable desire to store more data on ever larger hard drives."
The new 3.5-inch drive will be a part of the Caviar Green family, which, as the name suggests, is part of WD’s low-energy line. The drive will make use of IntelliPower, which WD says “fine-tunes the balance of spin speed, transfer rate and caching algorithms designed to deliver both significant power savings and solid performance."
Overall, however, the new 2 TB drive’s specialty is storage, not speed. The WD20EADS should be filling channels and carries with it an MSRP of $299.
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"The drive will feature a 32 MB."
A 32 MB what?
After seeing WD's MSRP of $299, I suspect Seagate knows the problem with its 7200.11 1.5TB drives before release. The 1.5TB was asking for $199, lower than two 750GB drives, and in some cases, lower than two 500GB drives. Never before has a company selling the newest and biggest at a discount.
Quote: Will there ever be a real need to hit 2 TB?
Answer: Try 15TB and still not enough.
HD video = Lot of HD space.
More! More! Faster! Faster!
That would hold alot of porn ^_^. Seriously though I still think my 1TB Cavalier Black drive is huge. 2TB is just insane to me and I'd rather have a faster 1.5 TB drive or my 1TB cavalier black than a 2TB cavalier green.
32 MB cache i assume
Yes, a 32mb cache.
A 2TB HDD is just the next step up. You guys are all assuming that media will stay the same quality. As the common camera takes higher resolution shots, and as musicians start releasing more of their stuff in hi-def wavs (not commonplace yet, but it will be) instead of 128kbps mp3, suddenly it will take a lot more storage to hold your collection. My copy of NIN's the Slip in 128kbps mp3 is only around 50mb. My hi-def wav copy is over 1.5gb. Suddenly 2TB isn't so huge. A decade after, we'll be scratching our heads at such a silly question, wondering how one could ever do with less than a 320TB HDD, and maybe two if you had a serious music/movie collection.
I already have 2x250GB, 320GB, 500GB, 750GB, 1.5TB
"The drive will feature a 32 MB."A 32 MB what?
You beat me to it. I'm assuming 32MB Cache. Just a typo
2TB... I couldn't live with that little space, but they'll make nice RAID arrays.
Who wants 2T hard drive?
anyone who edits high def video
Gee ..... I recalled buying my first HD from Best Buy eons ago, a 540 MB Maxtor ... no way would I need a bigger HD than a 540 MB. Now, I am hard pressed to keep my data usage under 2 TB. @ 299 MSRP this baby is not going to be sold to most anyone.
I would consider buying this @ $299 simply because I only have space for 4 drives in my machine. Right now I have 320GB, 500GB, 750GB, 1.5TB, but when I run out of room I'm going to have to ditch the 320 and am going to want to get the largest drive I can.
You should be ashamed.
I think that the hard drive makers can thank bittorrent for a lot of their sales of these large drives.
Just how much REAL storage do you get with "2GB". Anyone calculated this?
This would be good for a fileserver as RAID5. The article stated it's built for capacity not speed so RAID5 be great for it.
Although I wouldn't use it for a SQL database as the read and writes aren't fast enough.
I wonder how long this thing takes to defrag.
I remember a guy I worked with talking about buying his first 20MB hard drive and he thought "I'll NEVER be able to use all that space".
So, you can buy one slow drive with 2TB, or two 1TB Drive in RAID 0 for $100 cheaper?
I guess it makes sense if you've already used up all of your available 3.5" slots.
I remember my first computer having 2Gb of storage. At the time it was huge... until the first 400Mb game came out. I thought that was a ridiculous amount of space to take up for a game.
HA, look at games now-a-days. You couldn't even fit them on that drive.
Hehe, i remember my father spending something like $300 in the 90's for a 540mb WD hard drive for our 486dx2. I remembered thinking how absolutely massive it was, especially when most of the games i was playing were on at best 4x 5.25" floppies.
Now, 2tb would be nice for me. I could fit the majority of the crap i have spread over 8-10 hard drives on one. Would be nice for consolidation purposes, but i certainly wouldnt spend $299 on it.
I think partitioning SUPER ULTRA LARGE drives would help defragmenting it faster... So far I'm happy with 640GB (2x320) and 640GB backup data files
Wow... This looks great for storage for small casings.. RAID 5 or 10 4x2TB would be great.
once we ripped those BLU RAY discs... hehehehe... It frightens me to see 8
GB video files on my 640GB
I need about 20T, I agree with 08nwsula !!! Anyone editing HD REALLY needs this drive. Price of course SUKS but what can ya do
TSM
I need 2TB drives NOW. Not for $300 though...$200 would be expensive. Guess I'm waiting another year
You can fill that 2TB HD with a txt file listing by line the pork barrel items in the latest US goverment bailout plan.
1.818989403545856475830078125 TB after format if my math is right
Ha! For my first computer, back in 1988, I paid $ 2400 for a *used* generic ("IBM clone") PC. That beast featured 512 KB (kilobytes) of RAM and a 20 MB (megabyte) HDD! And I thought I had a lot of space back then, running DOS-based software and a DOS-based menu system. I'll tell you, though... I was actually productive more quickly on that computer than on my current dual-core. Now we're anticipating multi-terabyte drives and quad-processors! Really, all of this will simply merge into a singular technology --- your infotainment centre.
I'm glad disk capacity is continuing to keep pace with demand and not just capacity but also price per GB continues to go down. The next frontier will likely be SSDs and with the price of memory going down, it might be feasible to see serious competition between the two technologies. If you're editing HD, you need the speed, not just the space.