***** NEW 3TB WESTERN DIGITAL SATA-II HARD DRIVE *****

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Pre order the worlds largest internal hard drive. Western Digitals WD30EZRSDTL 3TB Cavier Green is the ultimate in single drive storage prividing performance on par with the markets leading drives. Dont hesitate, BUY NOW!

Western Digital 3TB Caviar Green SATA 3Gbps 64MB Cache @ £191.98 inc VAT

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Massive capacity - WD Caviar Green SATA drives now deliver up to a massive 3 TB's of storage on a single drive.

WD meets the technological challenges of implementing 3 TB SATA hard drives - SATA hard drives are now capable of storing up to 3 TB of data on a single hard drive. WD is leading the way in the industry, providing you with solutions for implementing 2.19 TB and larger drives.

Reduced power consumption - WD has reduced power consumption making it possible for our energy-conscious customers to build systems with higher capacities and the right balance of system performance, ensured reliability, and energy conservation.

Cool and quiet - Drives with WD GreenPower Technology yield lower operating temperatures for increased reliability and low acoustics for ultra-quiet PCs and external drives.

Perfect for external drives - External drive manufacturers can eliminate the need for a fan in a high-capacity product by utilizing the cool and quiet operation of WD Caviar Green hard drives.

IntelliPower - A fine-tuned balance of spin speed, transfer rate and caching algorithms designed to deliver both significant power savings and solid performance. Additionally, WD Caviar Green drives consume less current during startup allowing lower peak loads on systems as they are booted.

IntelliSeek - Calculates optimum seek speeds to lower power consumption, noise and vibration.

NoTouch ramp load technology - The recording head never touches the disk media ensuring significantly less wear to the recording head and media as well as better drive protection in transit.

Advanced Format (AF) - Technology being adopted by WD and other drive manufacturers as one of multiple ways to continue growing hard drive capacities. AF is a more efficient media format that enables increased areal densities. (RS and RSDTL models only)


Manufacturer: Western Digital
Cache: 64MB
Capacity: 3000 GB
Access Time: 8 ms
Edition: Caviar Green
Interface: SATA 3Gb/s
Form Factor: 3.5"
Free-Fall Sensor: No
Height: 26.1 mm
NCQ: No
Rotation Speed: 5400 rpm

NOTE: These drives are only bootable on 64bit versions of windows Vista and 7 as well as OSX and Linux. These will work as storage on 32bit versions.

Only £191.98 inc VAT.

ORDER NOW
 
realscot said:
Just to say you have one? No other reason it'd be worth it. You could buy 2x2TB for that price and lets face it, how many people only have 1 drive bay left.
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Pretty much. Especially as 2TB drives and 1.5TBs are getting pretty cheap! Though I guess at first they cost a lot as well.
 
If I am not booting from this but using it purely as a sotrage device will it run on windwos xp/server 2003 (32bit)

edit: quick gogole seems not
 
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£63 per 1tb for Western Digital Caviar Green 3TB
or
£38.5 per 1tb for Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB
or
£38 per 1tb for Western Digital Caviar Green 1.5TB
or
£47 per 1tb for Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB


So not the most scientific price per a TB but gives you a rough ideal. All are rough and are OCUK prices so the 2TB and the 1.5TB drives are still the best price/GB drives. Obviously I haven't looked at other makes either.
 
yup always pricey at 1st, no one in there right mind gonna say no to getting the cheaper 1.5tbx2 or 3 or 2.0tb x2 for the same cost.

The 3tb needs to be £99-120 realisticly from the price per gig, give it another 6 months or 1 year before the manufacturers realise there own pricing is stupid and a ripp off and no ones hardly buying into it before they reduce prices to normal levels :)
 
Westyfield2 said:
Would it work OK in a Drobo, or would they have the 2.19TB problem?
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Assuming that they are right about that limit, would it still work as an external eSata HDD with normal MBR partitions on x64 OSs?

Just wondering when these larger drives will come available as 7,200rpm options rather than using the green power credentials that limit these to 5,400rpm as the faster drives are more appealing to me for media servers. I'm currently using two 2TB versions of this drive - from the link above they've somehow managed to slightly increase performance which put aside some worries.
 
reilly said:
£63 per 1tb for Western Digital Caviar Green 3TB
or
£38.5 per 1tb for Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB
or
£38 per 1tb for Western Digital Caviar Green 1.5TB
or
£47 per 1tb for Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB


So not the most scientific price per a TB but gives you a rough ideal. All are rough and are OCUK prices so the 2TB and the 1.5TB drives are still the best price/GB drives. Obviously I haven't looked at other makes either.
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don`t forget to put in space in computer per tb as well.

having 3 x 2tb takes more room than 2 x 3tb...... price will probably reflect the demands....

aside that... this is a serious piece of kit... well worth having if you want to store lot of information... i.e. like myself hehehehe.

i can see 2x 3tb full now and a lot of old 320,500 external hd leaving.

i`ll definitely buy one when the prices comes down a little bit more though :D

or i`ll just get a 2tb... these 3tb are pushing the prices down for the smaller hds :D
 
I'd take 2 x Sammy F4's 2TB instead personally, gain an extra GB, and save £50 in the process.
 
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