http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/ Engadget Comments for Western Digital about to ship 2TB Caviar Green hard drive? http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2010 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/Jan 13th 2009 11:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/Jan 14th 2009 12:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/Maybe it's just me, but I trust WD more than I trust Seagate.]]>Jan 14th 2009 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/
Hitachi is fine, though too loud generally. I'm happy with my Samsung drives, but they don't have enough history for me to form a real opinion.]]>Jan 14th 2009 12:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/Jan 14th 2009 12:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/
I used to agree with you. I used to be a WD fan boy but my story is like many others. I've never had a Seagate drive fail, I have had a WD drive fail. I have 2 1.5TBs Seagates and love them. I know of the RAID problems. The 2TB Seagates will be based on the 12th generation instead of the 11th as the 1.5TB drives. Hopefully Seagate has learned from the mistakes of the 7200.11 1.5TB. I'm betting them have. ]]>Jan 14th 2009 1:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/Jan 14th 2009 3:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/Jan 14th 2009 5:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/
really? i have never had issues with WD but had major issues with seagate. never buying from them again. and it was a huge pain in the ass just to send in my drive to get replaced. and with my older server motherboard it was a pain to cap the sata to 1.5. the piece of crap software i had to download AND put on another computer was written wrong. the menu was backwards. 1.5 to 3.0 was actually 3.0 to 1.5 (and vice versa). some dyslexic programmer. WD just needed a jumper. and all my seagate drives run about 10 degrees hotter than my WDs. i wanted to get a seagate 1.5tb but decided to wait until WD came out with one after my bad experiences. im glad a did because from what i hear on the newegg product reviews they have been horrible.]]>Jan 15th 2009 8:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/Jan 13th 2009 11:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/Jan 14th 2009 12:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/Jan 14th 2009 12:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/Jan 14th 2009 1:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/Jan 14th 2009 7:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/Jan 13th 2009 11:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/Jan 14th 2009 12:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/
... sigh... loved those riddles.]]>Jan 14th 2009 6:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/
I have had some bad luck with green powers and poor reliability. ]]>Jan 13th 2009 11:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/
I don't have anywhere near 1 TB, so to me, its safer to buy a 500 GB HDD in my desktop and then buy a portable drive to back the desktop up to. This way, I never have all my eggs in one basket. ]]>Jan 14th 2009 12:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/Jan 14th 2009 12:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/Jan 14th 2009 12:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/Jan 14th 2009 1:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/Jan 14th 2009 12:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/
...I think I hear a new lolcat coming...

@msalivar

quantum eggs? just what kind of chicken was (wasn't) this? - I fixed that for ya ;-)]]>Jan 14th 2009 4:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/Jan 14th 2009 12:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/Jan 14th 2009 3:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/RAID-5-Doomed-2009,6525.html]]>Jan 14th 2009 10:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/hard drive tech world, a 2TB hard drive cost only
$225...damn it had being a long time since i bought
a hard drive...time to go shopping.]]>Jan 14th 2009 12:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/Jan 14th 2009 12:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/Jan 14th 2009 12:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/Jan 14th 2009 8:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/Jan 14th 2009 12:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/Jan 14th 2009 12:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/Jan 14th 2009 12:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/Now THAT was an obscure reference! You almost made me Soylent my pants.]]>Jan 14th 2009 12:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/Meaning you can get away with a smaller power source, and you can "Save the planet".]]>Jan 14th 2009 12:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/
As far as I can tell, there is nothing remotely organic about the drive or any part of the manufacturing process.]]>Jan 14th 2009 12:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/Jan 14th 2009 12:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/
Honestly, when was the last time you needed your non-OS/app data faster than a 5400 RPM drive can provide it? Even in a custom built NAS a good hardware/software RAID 5, ZFS pool, or HammerFS equivalent, 5 or 6 GP drives will max out a single gigabit link.]]>Jan 14th 2009 1:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/Jan 14th 2009 6:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/Jan 14th 2009 6:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/Jan 14th 2009 1:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/Jan 14th 2009 12:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/Jan 14th 2009 12:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/
I just purhcase three 1TB HDD (Maxtor, 32MB Cache HDD) for my NAS and now they come out with this.
Ok do I look into buying these or save my money for a couple 1TB SSD (I can dream can't I)]]>Jan 14th 2009 12:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/Jan 14th 2009 1:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/Jan 14th 2009 8:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/of late however my HDD's have not faile me as they did in the past however if I can give my self even more peace of mind I will take it.
SSD dont have any moving parts ans thats as safe as I can get. I would like to know the life span of an SSD HDD compared to a standard HDD.

I do imagine I would be saving for a couple years to get that 1TB SSD]]>Jan 14th 2009 3:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/Jan 14th 2009 12:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/western-digital-about-to-ship-2tb-caviar-green-hard-drive/Jan 14th 2009 12:49AM