Published: Monday 22nd June, 2009 | Author: Parm Mann
Products: Western Digital Hard Drives
Companies: Western Digital (All Western Digital content)
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email to a friendDespite the best intentions of others, Western Digital continues to go uncontested in the 2TB hard drive space and it looks set to be expanding on its range with the introduction of the 2TB Caviar Black.
The drive, hinted at in the below promo (image captured by watch.impress.co.jp), will feature 64MB of cache and Western Digital's dual-processor architecture. Assuming the drive lives up to its Caviar Black branding, it could operate at 7,200rpm - making it the only available 2TB drive to do so.
There's no mention of availability or pricing yet, but the 2TB Caviar Black will join Western Digital's existing 2TB Caviar Green and the enterprise-orientated 2TB RE4-GP.
With the aforementioned drives priced at around £200 and £275, respectively, we'll go ahead and assume that the 2TB Caviar Black will fetch over £300 when it reaches retail.
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What's he using for controllers? Is he using RAID on WHS, or letting it do it's spanning/duplication in software?
I have space for 18 drives in an Akasa case with a bunch of IcyDock hot swap cages.
If I'd known about that case before I think I would have gone for that to be honest. 20 SATA + a slimline optical and a 2.5" bay would have been great.Quote
i have 8x 1tb drives in a raid-5 array.
I have 5x 500gb drives in a raid-5 array in the same box.
Planning to start replacing the 500gb drives with 1.5tb drives sometime. 2tb drives are just too expensive.
Are you downloading the Internet?Quote
I have 8x 1TB drives in a RAID-5 array.
I have 5x 500GB drives in a RAID-5 array in the same box.
Planning to start replacing the 500gb drives with 1.5TB drives sometime. 2TB drives are just too expensive.
Scan's TodayOnly puts the Seagate 1.5TB drive as the cheapest storage available. 0.57p/GB tasty stuff. Was just eyeing up putting 5 of those in my case as a start to replace the 7 x 500GB in RAID-6 I current have.
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