WD 2TB Feedback please...

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Greg Rosler

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Hi, anyone who has purchased a 2TB WD hard drive please post some feedback on them.

I'm interested in hearing about any issues you are having with them.




Thanks,
Greg
 
DeathFromBelow said:
Anyone bought a holographic storage unit yet? How are they?
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duh, if you'd searched, you'd see there's hundreds of threads about the performance of HSD's. They're like SSDs were back in the old days--great read, not-so-good write.

I hear Karl Zeiss is getting into the HSD market now and may be able to to bring to market a perpendicular polarization technology that works in spherical coordinates. finally, some competition. bout damn time!
 
I just spent $200 on a Velociraptor... $299 for 2TB of storage space ain't bad.

Plus I come from a day when the newest 80MB HDs hit the market at $500+ so $300 for the newest, largest capacity drive...that just went on sale 2 minutes ago...ain't bad.

I would've bought 2 if they'd let me.
 
Interesting... so it's a variable speed. Pretty cool. I'd love 4 of these in my system now. $1200 does not seem worth it though.
 
mryerse said:
Interesting... so it's a variable speed. Pretty cool. I'd love 4 of these in my system now. $1200 does not seem worth it though.
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I thought that was generally regarded as BS...unless there's actual proof otherwise. Western Digital certainly don't like to talk about it when pressed... :rolleyes:
 
whatever speed they spin performance is good!
90reads and 80writes aint half bad, especially if you are going to raid them...
 
Syntax Error said:
I thought that was generally regarded as BS...unless there's actual proof otherwise. Western Digital certainly don't like to talk about it when pressed... :rolleyes:
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I did some more research and it sounds like it's variable speed across the product line... meaning 500's might be 5400 and 1tb might be 7200, etc. I dunno, the main thing to me is cost per gb + reliability. Right now these cost too much.
 
Remember that cost per GB is based on more than just the hard drive cost.

There is the cost of the ports. $25/port for cheap PCIe cards is not too bad but if the current mother board and case are full, then the cost of adding another 1TB hard drive might be considerable compared to replacing a 1TB hard drive with a 2TB hard drive.

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I have several TB of free space (for temporary storage of TV shows) no need to convert that to a larger drive.

I have several TB of ripped DVDs and physical space for 2 more hard drives. I suppose when 2TB hard drives get to $100/110 I will start buying them and replacing the smaller drives.
 
Yeah, I still have 4 unused ports in my computer I'd like to fill up for the best value. Need to identify a way to get enough sata power cables first though, and I'm thinking a new lian li case with that new bfg tech 680w PSU with modular plugs. I really hate this ultra case a lot. Like with a passion I hate this case. I might take it out and run it over with my truck after I replace it.
 
So, back to the origional topic.

Has anyone bought one of these drives yet?

Trying to get feedback on the WD 2TB drive please. :)



Greg
 
Just wait a few days, they've just barely been announced, much less been in stock or even shipped out yet. :)
 
Supply and demand... the demand is there but while it's somewhat available, the supply seems short for now. Once it's easier to get, prices on other drives should start to drop a bit including this one.
 
mryerse said:
Supply and demand... the demand is there but while it's somewhat available, the supply seems short for now. Once it's easier to get, prices on other drives should start to drop a bit including this one.
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They're also the only 2TB drive around, so I wouldn't expect to see sub-$200 prices until there is some competition.
 
-=Antimatter=- said:
They're also the only 2TB drive around, so I wouldn't expect to see sub-$200 prices until there is some competition.
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Hopefully we won't have to wait long for competition. I think it's been about 6 months that Seagate was the only one with a >1TB hard drive.
 
Seagate took a big hit on the last round with their firmware problems. Hopefully it doesn't slow down their efforts to compete this round.
 
mryerse said:
Seagate took a big hit on the last round with their firmware problems. Hopefully it doesn't slow down their efforts to compete this round.
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I suspect they're going to ditch the 7200.11 name and go with 7200.12 with their newer drives...their single-platter 500GB hard drive certainly demonstrates their capabilities to reach 2TB easily.
 
I wish more mobo's had 6x sata ports on intel matrix raid controller (for raid 5) and 2x sata ports on something comparable in performance to intel matrix raid, for raid 0 for the OS, instead of just 6x ports total plus esata.
 
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