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Read more.The Western Digital Caviar Green range now goes up to 3TB as it recovers some bragging rights from Seagate.
3TB for £200?
Awesome!! Yes that's a premium over 2TB drives, but it's not an unrealistic price compared to how much 1TB, 1.5TB and 2TB drives retailed for at launch.
oh FFS I just upgraded my server to all 2TB disks!
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And you've done good, look at the price!Originally Posted by Jay
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I'll offer you £20 each then when you upgrade
It's about time drives like this came out as all my 1 Tb drives are full to the brim at the moment and I need to expand.
I do like the idea of 3tb drives but the price is still high IMO. I know it is new tech and there is always a price premium. For now I will stick with my 2tb samsungs, and I only see the point of upgrading from £70-80 2tb to a £200 3tb drive if:
you are space limited
your controller doesn't have enough ports
energy saving?? (I assume these use less power)
So there are still alot of reasons to upgrade/buy one.
P.S jsut out of interest is there any limitation on using this as a bootdrive ie. chipset, windows been silly and not reconising it, and can onboard raid handle 2x3tb in raid 0 or 1
Boot drive: depends on the OS.
This review covers it pretty well.
http://www.storagereview.com/western...ew_wd30ezrsdtl
What I'm most interested in is how well these will work with hardware RAID contollers. Would love a RAID-6 volume of 10 or so of these
Last edited by Funkstar; 19-10-2010 at 04:27 PM.
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The need to use the pci-e host bus adapter makes it more of a pain in the ass than other drives.
Not everyone has free pci-e slots or ones tha are nto covered by dual slot gpu coolers. not a problem for me but something for others to think about before they regret getting 2tb drives recently.
I'm a little surprised that you can get it to boot at all without going (U)EFI - or it that what the PCIe card is doing?
Did you really expect those to be the largest drives on the market for long? Whats the bet that by this time next year we aren't seeing 4+GB hdds... and how long will it before we are buying 100s of terabyte drives?
At that price, for that capacity, they're unlikely to be built to live in a RAID array.What I'm most interested in is how well these will work with hardware RAID contollers. Would love a RAID-6 volume of 10 or so of these
Very true. However the 8x WD15EADS drives are just fine in RAID-5, although I do want to migrate to RAID-6 at some point.
3TB is a lot to lose if something hits the fan though.
In other news, very nice indeed - and i thought splashing out on a second F3 500GB got me into the big storage league
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for all intents it seems to be the same card minus some gays name on it and a shielded cover ? with OEM added to it - GoNz0.
Backups... I run 7TB RAID5 array backing up to identical set of drives in RAID5, half of this goes offsite to my parents house and quarter is in the cloud3TB is a lot to lose if something hits the fan though.
In other news, very nice indeed - and i thought splashing out on a second F3 500GB got me into the big storage league
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That's a lot of space.
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For me, I've got a server with 5 hard drive slots. One of those is dedicated to temporary backup drives, so that leaves 4 hard drive slots.3TB is a lot to lose if something hits the fan though.
In other news, very nice indeed - and i thought splashing out on a second F3 500GB got me into the big storage league
It's currently populated with three 2TB disks, which had it almost at capacity until I deleted a stack of stuff a couple of weeks ago. So increasing disk space is really important to me - the more data I can cram into one slot, the more convenient things are.
As for price - I couldn't believe that rate at which 2TB drive prices dropped, even with nothing bigger available on the market. Very rapidly they were competing with 1TB drives in terms of £/GB, so I'm sure it will be the same with 3TB. Give it 6-12 months, and everything will be back to normal. Hard drive market has quite a lot of competition compared to most PC-related fields, so prices drop pretty rapidly.
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