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Title: Western Digital Releases Green 2TB hard drive
Post by: Reno on January 27, 2009, 16:04

Click here for article (http://news.softpedia.com/news/Western-Digital-2TB-Caviar-Green-Hard-Drive-Is-Official-103049.shtml)

Title: Re: Western Digital Releases Green 2TB hard drive
Post by: Simon on January 27, 2009, 16:36

I wonder how much bigger they'll get?

Title: Re: Western Digital Releases Green 2TB hard drive
Post by: Rik on January 27, 2009, 17:19

Size isn't everything...  :o:

Title: Re: Western Digital Releases Green 2TB hard drive
Post by: sam on January 27, 2009, 18:35

cool, wonder what the reliability is!

Title: Re: Western Digital Releases Green 2TB hard drive
Post by: Simon on January 27, 2009, 20:29

Yes, you really wouldn't want to lose that much data, would you!   :o

Title: Re: Western Digital Releases Green 2TB hard drive
Post by: Reno on January 28, 2009, 04:20

Thats why you buy them in pairs, and use the second as a backup. It took them 18 months to double a terabyte. It could take them even longer to double it again. I think they're trying to cut down on energy used at these data storage centers. The bigger and greener the hard drives the less energy and money these companies end up spending over all.

Title: Re: Western Digital Releases Green 2TB hard drive
Post by: sam on January 28, 2009, 07:24

trust me, I can fill a terrabyte in a few minutes... but that's using the worlds largest radio telescopes.

And yep, set them up as raid arrays.

We have a massive storage capacity here - we have one machine that is dedicated to run 100TB of space!

Title: Re: Western Digital Releases Green 2TB hard drive
Post by: thesaint on February 02, 2009, 17:45

Quote from: Rik on January 27, 2009, 17:19

Size isn't everything...  :o:

No its what you do with it that counts

Title: Re: Western Digital Releases Green 2TB hard drive
Post by: Simon on February 02, 2009, 18:12

You're fitting in here nicely, Phil!  ;D

Title: Re: Western Digital Releases Green 2TB hard drive
Post by: Rik on February 03, 2009, 10:22

We'll soon fix that.  :devil: