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   #49. Posted at 01:55 PM on Jan 16th 2009, Edited at 01:56 PM on Jan 16th 2009 Edit   Reply
Kent_dieGo
The week is over but still no 2TB drive. I am thinking the recent uproar over the Seagate 7200.11 drives may be causing WD to delay release until they do more QA testing or maybe there is a problem they still have not fixed.
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   #13. Posted at 01:48 PM on Jan 13th 2009 Edit   Reply
Final-Reality
with huge drives becoming so cheap, I picked up a pair of 1.5TB drives over christmas (free shipping yay) and I've started backing up my DVD collection. Thank god too, so many of them are scratched and I've already encountered several that I can't read :( It's nice to be able to archive hundreds of discs on a single HDD
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#13, The 1.5 TB Barracuda drives are failing like crazy. Unless y...  :  Kent_dieGo  (#46)  «
#46, If you have two aren't you asking for doubletrouble?  :  MadManOriginal  (#48)  «

   #47. Posted at 11:14 AM on Jan 15th 2009 Edit   Reply
DLHM
I think it's time to post this link again....

http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/research/recording_head/pr/Perpendicu...
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   #12. Posted at 01:47 PM on Jan 13th 2009 Edit   Reply
Creamsteak
I use less than 100 GB and most of that is steam games... and I consider myself lazy here. I have a 30 gigs of WoW and AoC which both havn't been played in 6 months.
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#12, My drive is 115GB, and it's not even close to full after loa...  :  OneArmedScissor  (#22)  «
#22, What kind of uncompressed recorded audio are you talking ...  :  MadManOriginal  (#35)  «
#22, I recall someone from Seagate saying, "We make products t...  :  Xylker  (#45)  «

   #25. Posted at 02:50 PM on Jan 13th 2009 Edit   Reply
kengthegodz
1TB is much 2 is too much..!
thanks you! 300GB is big enough for me!
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#25, See? In one minute your requirement increased by 50 Gb! In on...  :  Mourmain  (#44)  «

   #37. Posted at 04:12 PM on Jan 13th 2009 Edit   Reply
glynor
Hmmm... Hopefully WD also intros a 1.5TB drive. I have a 3 disk 1.5TB RAID-5 volume that I'd really like to be able to back up regularly onto a single external drive.

Grab one of those and throw it in my Thermaltake dock, and all will be good. I just don't want to buy one of the current Seagates with all the problems, so I've been waiting for a WD or Hitachi version to appear.
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#37, Post #36 :p Here's the pdf: http://img.ktr.pl/h/hdwd6400aacs...  :  MadManOriginal  (#40)  «
#40, Sweet, thanks! Here's hoping!!  :  glynor  (#43)  «

   #27. Posted at 03:19 PM on Jan 13th 2009, Edited at 03:22 PM on Jan 13th 2009 Edit   Reply
YeuEmMaiMai
in the space of 15 years we have gone from 200MB drives to 2TB drives a 10,000% increase in storage space for less money......

should read 10,000% increase
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#27, 10,000x or 1,000,000% increase.  :  acejj26  (#42)  «

   #9. Posted at 01:38 PM on Jan 13th 2009 Edit   Reply
indeego
3 TB may arrive week after.
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#9, Not likely, and if it did, it would have 6 platters (which i...  :  squngy  (#18)  «
#18, But as long as we're guessing in the news section, why no...  :  indeego  (#19)  «
#19, ++  :  eitje  (#41)  «

   #39. Posted at 04:23 PM on Jan 13th 2009 Edit   Reply
blitzy
i picked up a 1.5tb drive the other day, surprisingly it was the best value $/GB.... big drives are sweeeeeeeet
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   #1. Posted at 01:13 PM on Jan 13th 2009, Edited at 01:14 PM on Jan 13th 2009 Edit   Reply
curls
We should have 3TB by the end of the year... need more space for my "important" media files.
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#1, I'm running out of space on my PC ATM, a 2TB HDD would certa...  :  SsP45  (#2)  «
#2, Delete some shiat. I've been there recently and it's amaz...  :  TravelMug  (#5)  «
#5, Defeats the purpose of being a collector. :D  :  curls  (#7)  «
#5, Blu-Ray rips (of disks that I do own) take up anywhere...  :  SsP45  (#14)  «
#1, pr0n anybody? ;)  :  Krogoth  (#3)  «
#3, what else is "important"? NOTHING! lol!  :  albundy  (#10)  «
#3, oh, no thanks...I drove.  :  derFunkenstein  (#20)  «
#1, 2nd that here as well. Currently the biggest drive in my com...  :  moose17145  (#4)  «
#1, Why did you put "important" in quotes? If they're not import...  :  Spotpuff  (#6)  «
#6, Heh. Heh. Heh.  :  cegras  (#38)  «

   #36. Posted at 04:02 PM on Jan 13th 2009 Edit   Reply
MadManOriginal
Also FYIs there should be a 3 platter WD15EADS 1.5TB drive. There's some WD product .pdf that I found a link to recently which lists that drive as well.
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   #26. Posted at 03:07 PM on Jan 13th 2009 Edit   Reply
esterhasz
wow, the ability to lose 2TB of data in one single headcrash, gotta love that!
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#26, It's a tradeoff either way. If you need 2TB of space and ins...  :  ludi  (#32)  «
#32, true indeed! Although the 4 platter design is certainly m...  :  esterhasz  (#34)  «

   #29. Posted at 03:25 PM on Jan 13th 2009 Edit   Reply
getbornagain
Now if only I could get one of these is my hddvr from cox...no open ports and only a 160 gig for about 15 hrs of hd content
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#29, I totally agree. My poor BrighHouse DVR only holds like 20 h...  :  Usacomp2k3  (#33)  «

   #28. Posted at 03:22 PM on Jan 13th 2009 Edit   Reply
YeuEmMaiMai
my post should read 10,000% increase
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#28, I believe you can edit it, go ahead and do so.  :  jstern  (#31)  «

   #30. Posted at 03:26 PM on Jan 13th 2009 Edit   Reply
TurtlePerson2
I'm not sure that these sort of jumbo hard drives are really the future. I filled up a 160 GB hard drive that I bought with my parts for my first PC, but I haven't yet passed 200 GB of data. Granted I don't pirate movies or music, so I don't have a huge catalog of MP3s or MPEG4s. The interesting stuff in hard drives is the solid state stuff. I'd rather have my hard drive be twice as fast than twice as large.
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   #24. Posted at 02:49 PM on Jan 13th 2009 Edit   Reply
kengthegodz
1TB is much the 2TB is damn very much...
thanks... 250BG is big enough for me
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   #23. Posted at 02:44 PM on Jan 13th 2009 Edit   Reply
Machupo
Hopefully these will have a lower failure rate than the 1TB greenies i've been getting from newegg... about 25% in my TS-409 :-(
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   #21. Posted at 02:41 PM on Jan 13th 2009, Edited at 02:42 PM on Jan 13th 2009 Edit   Reply
MadManOriginal
Nice to see, I wish I'd been a touch more patient when I got some Caviar Blacks not too long ago. The WD10EADS was hard to find and more expensive, then news of these come out. If I'd desparately needed them I wouldn't feel bad but I'm so slow at doing my PC projects I haven't actually used them yet heh. With 500GB platters these ought to have pretty nice performance and make no noise.
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   #17. Posted at 02:27 PM on Jan 13th 2009 Edit   Reply
Grigory
Awww, they grow up so fast! <3
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   #16. Posted at 02:20 PM on Jan 13th 2009 Edit   Reply
Lazier_Said
About time for some competition over 1TB. The 7K1000 was released nearly two years ago.

Sign me up for three.
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   #15. Posted at 01:54 PM on Jan 13th 2009, Edited at 01:56 PM on Jan 13th 2009 Edit   Reply
jstern
Great news. But if you're going to fill a drive with 2 terabytes worth of stuff, I would suggest backing that data up with another 2 terabytes drive. It's just not cool losing all your stuff.
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   #11. Posted at 01:44 PM on Jan 13th 2009 Edit   Reply
TardOnPC
BOO! Spotpuff! Party pooper here! What would be important but not important at the same time on your PC? Pr0n of course!
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   #8. Posted at 01:36 PM on Jan 13th 2009 Edit   Reply
End User
Thank goodness. I desperately need to upgrade my NAS.
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