News - Western Digital's 7,200RPM 2TB hard drives get official

[HEXUS]

2TB Caviar Black and RE4 hard drives bring high-capacity performance to desktop and enterprise.

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[TooNice]

We getting to the point where I am wondering if it makes sense to have a premium high capacity drive. Don't get me wrong, I think that SSD is still too expensive for most, and there is still room for a drive like the Caviar Black. But I just don't see anyone needing a 2TB for a OS/App/Game drive.

[jackvdbuk]

We getting to the point where I am wondering if it makes sense to have a premium high capacity drive. Don't get me wrong, I think that SSD is still too expensive for most, and there is still room for a drive like the Caviar Black. But I just don't see anyone needing a 2TB for a OS/App/Game drive.

when it comes to raid and people having multiple TB drives, these 2TB could be brilliant for some
3 x 2TB IMO is much nicer and simpler than having some sort of 6 1tb raid solution

and who cares anyway, new technology pushes down old tech and lets be honest, tech today is brilliant as it is and it will bring it to prices we all love!

[UseItNow]

I can't even fill up a 160Gb hard drive.

[Georgy291]

i saw 10,000rpm server drives? cant we use those if we need speed?

[badass]

i saw 10,000rpm server drives? cant we use those if we need speed?

They don't go up to 2TB
You can also get 15,000 RPM server drives. Still not a patch on a decent SSD though.

[jim]

We getting to the point where I am wondering if it makes sense to have a premium high capacity drive. Don't get me wrong, I think that SSD is still too expensive for most, and there is still room for a drive like the Caviar Black. But I just don't see anyone needing a 2TB for a OS/App/Game drive.

I agree, but what about a media drive? That's a completely different kettle of fish. Suppose somebody wants to rip bluray films direct to a server - at 25-30GB per film, a 2TB drive will fill up pretty rapidly.

[Georgy291]

btw surely the 7000rmp will be very very loud in the house?

i meantioned before the 10k server drives and id HATE to have one in my pc

[blueball]

So the drives get bigger and bigger but so does the amount of space needed to back them up so you get even bigger drives to back-up those drives to and...


... my head hurts

[jim]

So the drives get bigger and bigger but so does the amount of space needed to back them up so you get even bigger drives to back-up those drives to and...


... my head hurts

Nah, easy solution. You just have to buy two of everything . As long as you don't tell your wallet, it'll be fine.

[TooNice]

I agree, but what about a media drive? That's a completely different kettle of fish. Suppose somebody wants to rip bluray films direct to a server - at 25-30GB per film, a 2TB drive will fill up pretty rapidly.

The point I was making isn't about capacity though. I welcome 2TB drives given that I am a heavy user of HD space. The Caviar Black is a premium drive, not in the same league SSD or even the Velociraptor/decent 10-15k RPM drives, but it already comes at a premium compares to other 7.2k RPM drives. 2TB is also a flagship capacity that comes at a premium. Put them together, and I suspect that we will end up with a drive that is more expensive than even existing 2TB drives (which are quite expensive even compared to 1.5TB drives). I just don't think that a media drive would benefit a lot from a Caviar Black over a Caviar Green (for instance) which is quieter, more energy efficient (which means cooler, not a bad thing in an array) and typically cheaper.

[UseItNow]

What I would love to see is a 1Tb Western Digital Black drive with 2 of these 500Gb platters, wonder how performance would differ from current 1Tb Black with the 3 platters.

[jim]

The point I was making isn't about capacity though. I welcome 2TB drives given that I am a heavy user of HD space. The Caviar Black is a premium drive, not in the same league SSD or even the Velociraptor/decent 10-15k RPM drives, but it already comes at a premium compares to other 7.2k RPM drives. 2TB is also a flagship capacity that comes at a premium. Put them together, and I suspect that we will end up with a drive that is more expensive than even existing 2TB drives (which are quite expensive even compared to 1.5TB drives). I just don't think that a media drive would benefit a lot from a Caviar Black over a Caviar Green (for instance) which is quieter, more energy efficient (which means cooler, not a bad thing in an array) and typically cheaper.

Yeah, I see what you mean. Given that the green drives = media storage, Enterprise = large and fast data storage for specialist requirements eg servers, I guess it is hard to see where the Black fits in as a fast desktop drive. I think a lot of it is to do with the fact that people are, for whatever reason, far more inclined to purchase a computer with one huge drive (because they need the space for media), and put everything on one huge partition, than to look for a multiple drive solution.

Further on from that, it wouldn't surprise me if a lot of people didn't even realise that you could have multiple disks inside a system. And whilst these people might not be typical customers for a separate drive to install into their system, I'll be that some of them buy from the likes of Alienware, who could market a 2TB Black very easily, and no doubt very successfully, given the right pricing.

As for the rest of the market, I won't get started on e-penises...