When are 2 Terabyte drives Coming out?

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Ive done some looking on Google and Engadget says this week but i cant get any conformations anywhere, Does anyone have any Solid info?
 
Are you referring to the Western Digital 2TB WD20EADS? There are some rumors that they should be on sale sometime later this year and some websites (such as Overclockers UK) are already taking preorders. No official word from WD though.
 
According to Anandtech they should start shipping this week to etailers, so expect the 2TB Green's to start appearing within the next few weeks actually. No idea on when other versions will appear and if the Green Edition appeals to you (lower drive speed, most likely 5400 rpm, but low power consumption, nice acoustics supposedly, and 500 GB per disk leads to high density and improved speeds). Here's a link to the article:

http://www.anandtech.com/weblog/showpost.aspx?i=546

Other editions I would expect to be closely following though.
 
Thanks, im just running outta space to Quickly in my HTPC. Blu-Ray rips take up a lot of space and im gonna have to build a ESATA box and would love to convert over to 10 or more 2 TB drives.
 
Anchen said:
According to Anandtech they should start shipping this week to etailers, so expect the 2TB Green's to start appearing within the next few weeks actually. No idea on when other versions will appear and if the Green Edition appeals to you (lower drive speed, most likely 5400 rpm, but low power consumption, nice acoustics supposedly, and 500 GB per disk leads to high density and improved speeds). Here's a link to the article:

http://www.anandtech.com/weblog/showpost.aspx?i=546

Other editions I would expect to be closely following though.
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Will 5400 RPM drives be a problem for Blu-Ray playback on Isos?
 
That should be fast enuff, I know im gonna pay the price for them but the 1.5 drves out are flakey with bad firmware issues.
 
I saw some benchies of the new 2TB WD green drives (not that nas box) ... they were laughable. 640 beats them. There must be something wrong with the benchmarks because I don't see how a 500MB/platter drive loses to a 320MB/platter drive.
 
bigdogchris said:
I saw some benchies of the new 2TB WD green drives (not that nas box) ... they were laughable. 640 beats them. There must be something wrong with the benchmarks because I don't see how a 500MB/platter drive loses to a 320MB/platter drive.
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640 green?
 
Flyboat said:
Doesn't NTFS has a 2TB limit?
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NTFS has a huge theoretical limit, but the partition tables used by default for all version of Windows have a much lower limit (2TB). You can break the limit by using GUID tables instead of MBR tables, but it can be tricky to do. In other words, without GUID, the limit for NTFS is 2TB.
 
enginurd said:
640 green?
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No 6400aaks
kevinzak said:
NTFS has a huge theoretical limit, but the partition tables used by default for all version of Windows have a much lower limit (2TB). You can break the limit by using GUID tables instead of MBR tables, but it can be tricky to do. In other words, without GUID, the limit for NTFS is 2TB.
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Does that effect performance?
 
bigdogchris said:
No 6400aaks
Does that effect performance?
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I'm not even sure which versions of Windows it's possible with. I read an article about the theory behind it last month and that's the only reason I know anything at all about it. I just know that it's MBR partition structure that limits your size, not the actual file structure.
 
Since the 2TB disk are actually only 1.7 or so, I don't think this is an issue yet. Will be soon though.
 
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