Will the New WD 2TB Drives work in Drobo?

[BrittQ]

I am planning buying a Drobo this week for my HTPC storage needs. I read the article on the new 2TB drives form WD coming out soon.

Does anyone know if these should play nice in a Drobo or not? 8TB Drobo.

 

[Tallest Skil]

It says on the website that it supports up to 16TB, so you're good.

 

[mpshay]

Make sure you setup the drobo up for 8 Tb (or 16 TB if you think they will be coming out with 4 TB models soon) that way al you will have to do is slide the 2 TB moedls once they start shipping. No rebuilding required.

 

[Theophany]

Are these drives going to be a repeat of Seagate's 1.5TB drives? I get the feeling manufacturer's are reaching the limits of what can be stored on platters limited to the dimensions of a 3.5" drive...

 

[t0mat0]

Are these drives going to be a repeat of Seagate's 1.5TB drives? I get the feeling manufacturer's are reaching the limits of what can be stored on platters limited to the dimensions of a 3.5" drive...

What happened to those?

Currently using 2x 1 TB WD Caviar Black drives myself- which already seem old...

 

[Theophany]

What happened to those?

Currently using 2x 1 TB WD Caviar Black drives myself- which already seem old...

Massive problems with the disks. Solved, eventually, by a firmware update applied to the disk, but when you've got a lot of data on a disk the last thing you want is to lose it because of a manufacturer screw up.

 

[weckart]

The Seagate firmware problems extends to its 7200.11 range with smaller sizes also affected. I don't think the size of the platter comes into it.

http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=207931&Hilite=

Seagate has had a few goes at fixing this. Hopefully for it, this latest firmware update will do the trick. As it happens, it seems to have inherited the "Deathstar" mantle from Hitachi/IBM and system builders are avoiding its disks for the moment.