Western Digital about to ship 2TB Caviar Green hard drive?

[edesignuk]

Western Digital has known that Seagate was toiling away in hopes of being the first to market with a standalone 2TB hard drive, and evidently it has chosen to work its engineers that much harder. In a presumed effort to beat Hitachi (and everyone else) to the 2TB barrier, WD is reportedly aiming to launch its Caviar Green 2000GB WD20EADS later this week, and with it will come 32MB of cache, an 8.9-millisecond seek time and an expected price tag of around €170 ($224). Best of all? It should be "available immediately" just as soon as it's outed for real.

Engadget.

So that's 8TB in a Mac Pro. Very nice

 

[dukebound85]

ooooh nice

 

[iBookG4user]

That price actually isn't too bad, might be nice for another external hard drive

 

[BlueRevolution]

No, please, after you. We all know what the first products of a rush to market are going to look like. I sure wouldn't trust my data to one of those, especially considering there's no way I'll be able to root up enough storage to back all of that up.

I wouldn't mind getting a couple of tees in my iMac, but I think I can wait a bit.

 

[pinback pro]

No, please, after you. We all know what the first products of a rush to market are going to look like. I sure wouldn't trust my data to one of those, especially considering there's no way I'll be able to root up enough storage to back all of that up.

I wouldn't mind getting a couple of tees in my iMac, but I think I can wait a bit.

thats why he's going to buy 4. WD has been on a quality climb...continually improving. i wouldn't be afraid of this drive.

 

[bigjnyc]

I would love to replace my Time Capsule hard drive with one of these bad boys. I would wait a little bit after its release though to get some feedback.

 

[edesignuk]

I'm quite liking the idea of a couple of Samsung 1TB F1's in RAID 0 with this as a backup to them.

Maybe one day...

 

[dinaluvsApple]

screw there green line
get the caviar black or nothing.

green and blue line are low cost cheap drives.

 

[mpshay]

I'll give it a couple months after introduction and then then start replacing the 1TB drives in Drobo with these!

 

[Sdashiki]

Dammit, I dont even own a drobo and you took the words outta my mouth.

Id get one if 1TB wasnt the current limit. Tossing 4TB in there and you get 2TB of backup...with this itll go to a good amount of REAL backup.

 

[fteoath64]

No, please, after you. We all know what the first products of a rush to market are going to look like. I sure wouldn't trust my data to one of those, especially considering there's no way I'll be able to root up enough storage to back all of that up.

I wouldn't mind getting a couple of tees in my iMac, but I think I can wait a bit.

--
The idea is to backup your primary triple disk Raid0 stripe of 640GB Caviar Blacks.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

Very nice indeed... I can see 4 of these going in my ReadyNAS!

 

[skorpien]

Sdashiki, that has got to be the best avatar ever!

And damnit! Just when I'd committed to getting a 1.5TB for additional TC storage...

 

[edesignuk]

Western Digital's 2TB Caviar Green HDD on sale in Australia.

~$250US

 

[Peterkro]

I'll give it a couple months after introduction and then then start replacing the 1TB drives in Drobo with these!

My plan and why I went Drobo is to stay off the cutting edge and expand capacity economically,starting with four 750's then go to 1 or 1.5 terabytes as prices drop then two's and so on.

 

[dubhe]

+1 on the TC upgrade with this disc, just need to wait a few more months for it to go out of warranty

 

[Freis968]

I have been using the Caviar 500GB drives in my Mac Pro. The three optional bays house these and all I can say is that they have been trouble free. I would definitely recommend them.

Today I am receiving two Caviar 1TB drives, so I will be up to a total of 2.8TB of storage.

A great product!