Not much to say about this other than yes, Western Digital will be releasing a 2-terabyte Greenpower 3.5″ HDD. The more important bit of this announcement for me is the fact that this will compress their pricing even further than it already is; I happen to be running out of storage at the moment and am considering buying a couple 1TB drives, which after this week should be $20 or more cheaper.
These 2TB drives should be available some time next week, probably for ~$230. They’ve got a 32mb cache and an 8.9ms seek time, which isn’t exactly stellar, but at 2TB you can’t be picky with your performance specs.
“The power is yours!!!” Love the cap’t planet reference.
I’m in the same boat you’re in, need some more space soon! Been looking at 1TB
This is amazing… can’t wait till they make a smaller form factor to fit in laptops!
Jon
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I’m going to show my age, but I seem to recall using 5.25″ and 8″ hard drives (even gigantic rack-mounted beasts weighing more than me on a VAX system back in the day).
It would seem that if we can really fit this much data per square inch of disk space, and if some of us are using arrays of many drives to form 10-40 TB arrays, wouldn’t there be a market, once again, for a 5.25″-8″ hard drive, with modern capacities.
Due to platter size, the speed would be, necessarily, relatively slow. Not suitable for editing work, but perfectly suited to media archival.
Just a thought.