Western Digital 3TB and 2.5TB harddrives announced!

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3TB Caviar Green drive WD30EZRSDTL - $239 (only seen 1 uk place with pre-order for £193 ish)
2.5TB Caviar Green drive WD25EZRSDTL - $189

Boasting 750 GB-per-platter areal density and Advanced Format technology. Both of them are bundled with an Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI)-compliant Host Bus Adapter (HBA), which will enable the operating system to use a known driver with correct support for large capacity drives.

WD Caviar Green 5th Generation Specs:

* 2.5TB and 3TB capacities
* 5400 RPM
* 64MB cache
* 3GB/s SATA
* Power Consumption
o Spin Up - 10.75W
o Seek - 6.25W
o Idle - 5.5W
o Standby - 1W
* Average Read Seek - 15ms
* Average Latency - 5.5ms
* Spindle Start Time - 17s
* Error Rate - <1 in 1015

Review of 3tb: http://www.storagereview.com/western_digital_caviar_green_3tb_review_wd30ezrsdtl

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3TB!

This is just crazy!

Looking forward to see how the 7200rpm enthusiast drives will perform and whether they will have any place as a boot drive.

Seems like these will have to be used as storage drives rather than boot drives for most for the meanwhile, but I don't see that being a problem as many people are moving towards SSD and a large HDD for data.
Plus, if you're paying this much for a HDD for capacity, are you really going to have it as your boot drive?
I doubt it, would be a lot more likely to have a place in a multiple drive setup.
 
thepeganator said:
whether they will have any place as a boot drive.
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None whatsoever at the moment. Principally because you cannot boot a volume > 2Tb in size, regardless of partitioning, on a BIOS based system. UEFI boards do allow booting of > 2Tb volumes but they're still a long way from being mainstream.
 
It's about time! This should further drive down the price of 2TB drives, which are already great value for money.
 
I still find 1.5 to be the best cost per gb.. but hopefully these fall into a comparable price range.. I'd rather 2 of these than 4 1.5s.
 
i can't see 2tb drives lowering much in price, they are £70-75 already. The 2.5TB would be £120 using the 1.58:1 $:£ but we obviously pay more ontop so probably £145 and the 3TB will be £150 using 1.58:1 so £175+ i'm sure. Thats a £45+ increase for 0.5TB of space, therefore this doesn't compete with the 2tb drives so can't see the price of those dropping much at all. When the 2.5TB gets to £100 then i'll upgrade my 1.5tb.
 
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these eventually will bring down the prices of the 2s when other manufacturers start pumping them out and the market becomes more saturated with them, a few months maybe. UEFI (or lack of it) will slow this process somewhat. i for one won't be rushing out to buy a UEFI board, especially since i won't be rushing out for a 3tb disk. if i had 5 2tb disks, that'd be more than enough storage for possibly the rest of my life.
 
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if i had 5 2tb disks, that'd be more than enough storage for possibly the rest of my life.
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You sure? Only ask because I see (sig) your already on 4 TB. IMO storage space is relative

Just curious, but will the platter sizes just keep going or eventually (if not now) hit a wall? But nice to see further development in mechanical HDs.
 
It was only a few years ago when we thought having a 4GB HDD was massive and unneeded.

Dangerous claim there, mrtckane :p
 
Western Digital Caviar Green 3TB and My Book Essential 3TB Drives Reviewed

At $239 for an internal drive, the 3TB offering isn't too expensive. You can shave off another penny or two per GB if you go with a smaller drive, but if you want the space of a single drive Western Digital's offering isn't a bad deal. You have to go into this purchase with the right expectations however.

The performance difference between the 3TB Caviar Green and a modern 7200RPM drive can be significant depending on your workload. We saw WD's 3TB drive perform a lot like a notebook hard drive depending on the workload. If all you're using it for is to store large files, photos, videos, etc... then you'll be fine. But I wouldn't recommend using it as a boot/application drive, the random performance and even light workload performance just doesn't measure up.
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http://www.anandtech.com/show/3981/...3tb-and-my-book-essential-3tb-drives-reviewed
 
Nice to see a 3TB drives finally being released. This is the longest wait for a capacity increase that I remember.
 
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£145 and £190 ish the prices are for the UK on pre-order, crazy when there's 2tb drives for £70, you can get 2 of those and still pay less than the 2.5tb drive. Lets hope samsung hurries up with 2.5tb and 3tb drives, that should lower the prices a lot.
 
If I'm using then as a media disc for storing/backing up my music/tv/movies then 5400 rpm is better, less power, heat and noise.

3tb would be nice but I just hate that you loose just under 300gb when formated, it just seems a lot when you get large drives.

They should make the 3.3tb so when formatted you get 3tb for all the OCD people like me out there. :P


O and no sata 6 support?
 
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