2tb Harddrives

chris.dante · 8 Mar 2009 at 12:40

Hi Guys
Have we had any word when the new Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB are out. They have been on pre-order for a while now.

Thanks

fobose · 8 Mar 2009 at 12:45

I am going to avoid them for a long time because they are such a silly price!

Kearney_1988 · 8 Mar 2009 at 13:03

agreed they are way over priced just buy 2 1TB drives instead

Tomsk · 8 Mar 2009 at 13:03

They'll be available approximately one second after you receive the 1TB drives you ordered because you got fed up with waiting.

james.miller · 8 Mar 2009 at 13:05

Tomsk said:
They'll be available approximately one second after you receive the 1TB drives you ordered because you got fed up with waiting.

he's not wrong

top end hard drives are always expensive. well, top end anything is. you remember the release price of the 1tb drives, right?

chris.dante · 8 Mar 2009 at 13:24

True guys

but they will never come down in price till they at least come out.

freddie64 · 8 Mar 2009 at 16:16

Jesus H Christ! How much.

Bry · 8 Mar 2009 at 16:34

Problem is they are just not coming out

Neggy · 8 Mar 2009 at 22:21

big difference in price 7.3p /GB vs 12.5p /GB

hopefuly someone else will bring one out and drive down the cost.

ntg · 9 Mar 2009 at 10:47

As anything new, the new 2tb drives are overpriced for the first adopters.

You could argue that you can get 3x1tb drives for the same price as 1x2tb (and you would be right) but that's the price to pay for new bling.

On the other hand they do have a 500gb platter which if, and when, it trickles down to the 1tb drives should make for much faster/better throughputs.

I suppose the best choice would be to go for the 1.5tb at the moment, at least until other competitors put out their 2tb drives on the market pushing the prices down.

freddie64 · 10 Mar 2009 at 09:34

£150 for an extra 500gb storage.

Nah, don't think so.

lopkinfop · 10 Mar 2009 at 09:38

samsung has announced a 1.5tb drive, will be interesting to see the price of that.

chris.dante · 10 Mar 2009 at 16:42

yey it's out

matthewhotdude · 10 Mar 2009 at 16:52

chris.dante said:
yey it's out

Have you bought one at those prices :confused:

Bry · 10 Mar 2009 at 17:54

Yes looks like they are in stock, i preordered 2 ages ago. lets hope they ship soon (should do)

.SJ · 10 Mar 2009 at 18:16

lopkinfop · 10 Mar 2009 at 18:21

well a 500gig drive is 465gig in windows
1000gig is 930gig
so 2000 should be 1860gig

hernaldo · 10 Mar 2009 at 19:46

The prices are hilarious, especially when you couple the price with them being "green drives" AKA....crappy budget components with large dose of marketing = low power energy efficient turds.

Just my pov, although nice in a NAS of course.

But there aren't any NAS devices certified to take 2TB drives yet. NAS firmware makers are lazy too so don't expect any support soon, even less so if you've got one of those 2 drive budget affairs.

james.miller · 10 Mar 2009 at 19:57

they use budget components?

Bry · 10 Mar 2009 at 20:18

hernaldo said:
But there aren't any NAS devices certified to take 2TB drives yet. NAS firmware makers are lazy too so don't expect any support soon, even less so if you've got one of those 2 drive budget affairs.

Not true, NAS devices based off of WHS will run these just fine