Western Digital to Launch 2TB Hard Drive This Week
Last December, the etailer Czech Computer ever reveiled Western Digital’s 2TB hard drive (Model: WD20EADS). Now, we finally get some exact information about this large-capacity drive.
Coming from Western Digital’s Caviar Green Series, this hard drive features 32MB cache and 8.9ms seek time, running at 7200RPM or 5400RPM. It’s expected to have employed four single-platter 500GB disks.
The retail price of Caviar Green is unknown yet, but Fudzilla predicts that it will be ranging between €160 and €180 (around $214 to $241).
January 13th, 2009 at 9:48 pm
Holy crap this is gonna knock the 1tb ones under 100 euros.. on a second note, it’s funny how new capacities start at around 200 euros nowadays, whilst the first terabyte drive was like 400$ when it first hit the market
January 14th, 2009 at 1:45 am
The price sounds good to me, however the question is: Will it be plagued with problems like the Seagate 1.5TB hard drive is?
January 15th, 2009 at 1:41 am
1TB is already unter 100€!!! Samsung F1 costs 78,37€ to be exactly…
January 15th, 2009 at 7:23 am
#2 - Mathieu
Why would one manufacturer’s faulty firmwares/harddrives affect another manufacturer’s?
I’m really interested in this drive. Before 7200.11-series I was all for Seagate (Owning 16 HDDs) but the 7200.11-series is unreliable (not only the 1,5TB drive) and I will now go for Western Digital. I’m thinking of 5 of these drives (5400rpm) in a RAID 5 setup for storage. Yummie! Way to go WD!
January 17th, 2009 at 8:45 am
Don’t do that! I’ve got 5 WD drives in raid 5, and the raid keeps degrading, because the drives aren’t built for raid. When an internal error occurs, the drives take too long to recover, and the controller drops the drive. Even though it might not even be broken.
So wait and get some RE3 version once they are released.
ps. Seagate end user drives are horribly unreliable. I wouldn’t want any more of those myself. But they’re everywhere in our servers, and yet only the desktop drives fail. So get a seagate sas drive, or a wd RE3 based drive. (caviar black raid edition)
January 17th, 2009 at 5:05 pm
Beware these very large drives. The incident with the 1.5 TB (only) HDD from Seagate was not isolated, since the 1 TB HDD from Samsung was reviewed as the best 1 TB from the market, but guess what?
See Newegg and other reviews on the internet and you will find out many defective units. Of course, nothing compared to the 1.5 TB, but still MANY PEOPLE HAVE COMPLAINED! And the 1 TB Samsung was the best model when compared to all others.
I am looking foward for this drive, and I expect they can keep up the 1.5 TB bargain - US$ 120-130 for 1.396 GB = 0.085 cents per GB. Which means the 2 TB (1.862 GB per drive) should be priced no more than US$ 170-180 each. Beyond that, it’s very expensive and not worth it. Don’t forget to use a good SATA controller card (PCI-E) in order to use more HDDs than offered by your motherboard.
January 17th, 2009 at 5:09 pm
One more thing about the price - in the very first month of release, the 1.5 TB drives were sold by Amazon and Newegg and they have lowered the prices from US$ 200 (US$ 215/Amazon) (start) to US$ 120-130 (last months). It was a very interesting competition, each single day one of them were fighting to lower the prices more than the other.
So don’t bother to purchase any 2 TB drive when they arrive, wait for the prices to drop and you might save a lot of money (unless they are priced no more than US$ 170-180 as I said).
January 28th, 2009 at 6:12 pm
Little bit off topic, but can somebody tell me, how can I recognize 1 TB Green HDD from WD, with 2 500GB platters and 32 MB Cache. I found of WD website, there is a 2.0 TB, 1.5TB and 1.0 TB versions. But when I see WD10EADS tests, there is always mentioned that this drive utilizes a higher areal density to store one terabyte on only three platters. But I wanna have 1TB with 2-platters. Is there any further code behind the EADS mark, pointing to 2 platters design?