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WD's Monster 2TB Caviar Green Drive, Preview Test

Posted by timothy on from the what-would-this've-cost-in-1999? dept.

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."

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  1. Nice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The cache on this drive is 8x larger than the capacity of my first hard drive.

  2. Re:That was quick, but normal by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Hard drive capacity is no longer exponential. They have hit some limits that are pretty hard to overcome. They're still making progress but not nearly as fast as in years past. Additionally, drives larger than 640 GB or so seem to have some reliability problems. I just recently upgraded my RAID arrays and went with smaller 640 GB drives because they have proven more reliable even though it would have been cheaper for me to go with newer larger drives.

    The OP was wrong about it being one year anyway.

    I hate hard-drives. I wish SSD technology would improve. It's not just price, the current drives are unreliable as hell. I trust regular old mechanical spinning devices a lot more than the current SSD crap.