2TB Western Digital Drive

King Arthur · 1 Feb 2009 at 10:17

Hi

When will you be stocking the WD Caviar Green in the 2TB version.

See here

http://www.westerndigital.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=576

Phil

Schizo · 1 Feb 2009 at 10:19

Up to 571,000 digital photos
Up to 500,000 songs (MP3)
Up to 50,000 songs (uncompressed CD quality)
Up to 150 hours of Digital Video (DV)
Up to 880 hours of DVD quality video
Up to 240 hours of HD video

thats a lot of file's !

DigitalReaper · 1 Feb 2009 at 15:51

Came across this, thought it might be useful to people looking at the GP drives...

http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1679

Lists peak power consumption on the 12v rail too, might be useful for people worrying about spinup power draw for arrays.

tutu · 1 Feb 2009 at 19:00

A US e-tailer has just had stock so hopefully the UK shall see some soon. Would like to see a decent review first (one that includes noise and temperature as well as transfer speeds..)

Bry · 1 Feb 2009 at 19:09

I have 2 on pre-order. Just hope they get here soon

JeremyW · 1 Feb 2009 at 21:55

Are these the first drives with 500gb per platter?

jvowles · 1 Feb 2009 at 22:19

wow....i remember when i had a 20mb hard drive!

JeremyW · 1 Feb 2009 at 23:03

Yeah, and I bet it cost more than what Ocuk want for these 2TB drives

Greenlizard0 · 2 Feb 2009 at 06:07

I'm really considering them. I hope that others come out to drive the prices down.

Do we have an ETA for any other companies at all?

Hairboi · 2 Feb 2009 at 07:20

Oooh, yes please !

tutu · 2 Feb 2009 at 20:30

Since OcUK don't want to reply to my ETA post - another site has this listed as 23/02/2009.

Glaucus · 2 Feb 2009 at 20:31

Bigger question is when will we get 10Gb Plus.. Still 2tb drive will still take me a while to fill with my dvd's

tutu · 2 Feb 2009 at 21:31

AcidHell2 said:
Bigger question is when will we get 10Gb Plus..

About 9 years ago

ChrisLX200 · 2 Feb 2009 at 21:41

tutu said:
About 9 years ago

10 giga-bits, which is 1.25GB, so about 15 years ago...

[that's enough taking the **** I think

]

BlackBat · 2 Feb 2009 at 22:55

Since OcUK don't want to reply to my ETA post - another site has this listed as 23/02/2009.

As previously mentioned before in other various posts, the forum is not here primarily to ask OCUK staff questions. If you really want a reply, then you should send a web-note!

VaderDSL · 2 Feb 2009 at 22:57

I reckon he meant 10Gb platters

Mr-White · 2 Feb 2009 at 23:10

VaderDSL said:
I reckon he meant 10Gb platters

cache

MW

tutu · 3 Feb 2009 at 00:10

ChrisLX200 said:
10 giga-bits, which is 1.25GB, so about 15 years ago...

Beam me up scotty. Or would it be Chief O'Brien.

tutu · 3 Feb 2009 at 00:15

BlackBat said:
As previously mentioned before in other various posts, the forum is not here primarily to ask OCUK staff questions. If you really want a reply, then you should send a web-note!

Save me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast

photoshop · 3 Feb 2009 at 13:32

2Tb is really enough yet for all my HDD stuff. I want 5Tb drives.