Western Digital Shipping 2TB Internal Hard Drive
Western Digital Shipping 2TB Internal Hard Drive
Posted 01/27/2009 at 6:45am
| by Paul Lilly
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Confirming an earlier rumor that Western Digital had been nearing the release of a 2TB internal hard drive, the HDD maker is now producing and shipping the record capacity HDD. However, the new drive is so far only available through Mwave Australia.
The 2TB drive carries Western Digital's GreenPower moniker, an eco-friendly designation WD claims represents a 4-5 watt savings over standard desktop drives. According to Western Digital's product page, the new drive sips up to 7.4W during read/write operations, 4W at idle, and 0.97W during sleep or standby. Other specs for the WD20EADS include a 7200RPM spindle speed and 32MB of cache.
The drive sells for AU$378, which converts to about $250USD. No word yet on U.S. availability or pricing.
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hogkill
January 27, 2009 at 4:50pm
I know firsthand Western Digital drives are the most reliable. Not only is it very well priced, it will actually last you. Even if Maxtor or Seagate was able to make a considerably better priced drive (which they won't), you'll wish you'd payed the difference when it crashes after a couple years.
That being said I think the green logo is stupid. Hard drives don't use that much power anyhow. I'd prefer they just get the most performance out of it at 7200 rpms and keep the wattage as low as they can while doing so.
Keith E. Whisman
January 27, 2009 at 12:32pm
The SeaGate 1.5TB hdd retail boxed is selling for $129 at Fry's electronics stores and Web and NewEgg and Tigerdirect are also matching that price.
LatiosXT
January 27, 2009 at 10:33am
2 TB in the hard drive industry is 2 trillion bytes, not 2,199,023,255,552 bytes. You're looking at like 1960GB. Still I'm glad this didn't turn up to be a hoax or something.
I Jedi
January 27, 2009 at 8:34am
I personally like it and wonder if prices will come down after it becomes available in the U.S.
nekollx
January 27, 2009 at 9:19am
2 TERABYTES thats what 2048 Gigabytes, or Over Twenty Thousand Megabytes for $250 and you thinks thats two much?
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