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Depending on your configurations, this could be a HUGE QFT.
In the past, I have worked on $120 cost of overhead per drive, this is the port cost, hot swap cost, cost of a more expensive case for drive capacity, increased psu size, increased power draw, etc.
Now when you factor two 1tb drives for say 100 bucks (200 dollars) and the cost of an extra drive usage, that puts a 2tb in the cost savings zone by far (200+120=320). And if these drives are 199, that would make them a bargain in my senario.
Depending on your configurations, this could be a HUGE QFT.
In the past, I have worked on $120 cost of overhead per drive, this is the port cost, hot swap cost, cost of a more expensive case for drive capacity, increased psu size, increased power draw, etc.
Now when you factor two 1tb drives for say 100 bucks (200 dollars) and the cost of an extra drive usage, that puts a 2tb in the cost savings zone by far (200+120=320). And if these drives are 199, that would make them a bargain in my scenario.
has anyone found a retailer that has these in stock yet?
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.
Not yet...be patient! Even WD doesn't have them listed on their website. I'm sure they would be listed there before they start appearing for sale. There hasn't been an official announcement yet...
$299 is pretty steep for the MSRP, but if the market was any indication, that should go down pretty fast.
Now we play the waiting game.
If they want to sell these fast they should price them at $200 or hell...$150 would be nice.
MY bet is $100=1TB, $200=1.5TB, $300=2TB
At least that's what they might try and pull off on us!
Preview is up: http://hothardware.com/News/WD-2TB-Caviar-Green-Monster-Drive-Preview/
Performance will probably go up for the final drive
Too bad you didn't bother to read the thread and notice that it's already been posted.
It is not supposed to have high transfers... The green drives were made for cool, quiet operation.
+1. They are actually still quite fast and on par with some of the faster drives.
the drive runs 90MB/ abg reads and 80MB/s avg writes and is 12ms... anyone who calls that slow is spoiled by quad SSD numbers we keep seeing these days.
I love it how they made the 2TB inscription on the drive visible from a mile away!
Usually you have to look capacity number with a magnifying glass!
My main problem seems to be that I can't hotswap WD drives without them causing problems with each other - upon hotswap insertion of a WD greendrive it causes any other WD drives in the same backplane to "reset", which would cause a drive removal/insertion on a raid card and kill the raid.
I've only had the problem with the WD backplane power reset on particular backplanes - unfortunately, that includes the Norco 4020 w/ the revised backplane (SATA only). I've also experienced it with the Kingwin 4-in-3 multibays. I believe the Athena power backplanes work if you leave the power buttons on, and my Fusion 500P seemed to work without problems. So, I think it might be more of a backplane compatibility problem w/ WD drives. It might also be the particular model of drives I used, but it happened on the WD10EACS (3 and 4 platter versions) and the Caviar black 1TB. It only happens upon hotswap insertion of a new drive, so people might be running RAID arrays just fine if they populated them coldswap, but they might run into problems if they hotswap a replacement. I'd advise doing some tests if you have WD drives and one of the backplanes I mentioned.
I already have a bit over 7TB on my storage puter... Trust me, set for life you are not.Why do I think that if I just had 3 of these 2TB HDDs I would be set for life? I've love to fill these up with Blu-Ray movies and HD-Porn.
I already have a bit over 7TB on my storage puter... Trust me, set for life you are not.