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WD's Monster 2TB Caviar Green Drive, Preview Test
MojoKid writes "Today Western Digital is announcing their WD20WEADS drive, otherwise known as
the WD Caviar Green 2.0TB. With 32MB of onboard cache and special power management algorithms that balance spindle speed and transfer rates, the WD Caviar Green 2TB not only breaks the 2 terabyte barrier but also offers an extremely low-power
profile in its standard 3.5" SATA footprint. Early testing shows it keeps pace with similar capacity drives from Seagate and Samsung."
I was worried I would have to start deleting from my *cough* adult movie collection *cough* to make more room
-Ours is the wisdom of Solomon, the magic of Merlyn, the fall of Icaris.
It's really only 1800 Gigs.
Ah, the drivemaker's kilobyte...
Two Terabytes should be enough for anybody
It'll be so slick when the 4.0 TB WD40 comes out.
Agent smith: What good is 2 terabytes of porn if you are unable to access it?
Keanu: (glances worriedly at his zipper)
agent smith: (palm to face, shakes head) The hard drive, you imbecile, the hard drive.
Kwisatz Haderach
Sell the spice to CHOAM
This Mahdi took Shaddam's Throne
No thanks, looks and smells a bit fishy to me.
Yes. Curse those evil companies, trying to replace our God-given units—like Furlongs, Hogsheads, and Binary Thousands—with evil, communist SI units. The fiends will stop at nothing to pollute the American way of life!
How can I believe you when you tell me what I don't want to hear?
Bittorrent?
hmm, nope.
No one was confused. Nor would they care if they were.
Mod me down, my New Earth Global Warmingist friends!
The funny thing is both of my home computers have drives smaller than the missing 200GB from this 2TB drive. I really need to upgrade soon...
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RAM specifications use the 2^x numbering because the device is physically constructed as a square grid of cells with power-of-two numbers of rows and columns. There's a direct mapping between bits on the address bus and the cell that is selected.
Magnetic storage does not have this constraint. The sector size is (arbitrarily) set at 512 bytes and hard drives usually have an even number of read/write heads, but apart from that there are no powers of two. The number of cylinders on the drive, and the number of sectors per cylinder, are arbitrary.
Now explain flash/solid state memory sizes and the "formatted capacity" of memory.
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
You mean 1800 Gibibytes?
I will never, ever, in my entire life, even once mean "gibibytes".
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
Who, me?