http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/ Engadget Comments for Western Digital 2TB Caviar Green, 8TB ShareSpace and friends eyes-on http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/Mar 4th 2009 10:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/Mar 6th 2009 7:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/Mar 4th 2009 10:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/Mar 4th 2009 10:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/Mar 4th 2009 10:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/Mar 4th 2009 11:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/Mar 4th 2009 11:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/
I found out the short free clips were showing all that was needed.

It's just wrong to stare at that stuff for so long (considering they last from half to a full hour).]]>Mar 5th 2009 4:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/
Dude, ever heard of RAID?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redundant_array_of_independent_disks]]>Mar 5th 2009 6:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/Mar 5th 2009 7:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/Mar 5th 2009 8:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/Mar 5th 2009 9:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/
RAID is not a backup solution!!

http://www.google.com/search?q=raid+not+backup]]>Mar 10th 2009 1:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/Mar 4th 2009 10:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/Mar 4th 2009 11:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/
BitTorrent can solve your dilemma.]]>Mar 4th 2009 11:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/Here here. I got a 1.5TB Seagate drive recently and thanks to bittorrent I'm using a little under half right now. I expect to start deleting stuff sometime during the summer. ]]>Mar 4th 2009 11:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/Mar 5th 2009 2:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/Mar 4th 2009 10:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/Mar 4th 2009 10:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/07/03/hitachi.at.5tb.by.2010/
http://www.techradar.com/news/computing-components/storage/hitachi-aiming-for-5tb-hard-drive-by-2010-415442

Mabe december of 2010...

I`ll wait till net year to buy a new drive (I hope I can wait)]]>Mar 4th 2009 10:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/
Friend: "I didn't have time to watch the second episode of Trust Me yesterday luckily I recorded it."
You: "Oh that started already, luckily I've been recording tnt for the few weeks"

Although, not going to lie, at a lan years ago there was a server with a 2tb folder called "porn", was kind of impressed by the dudes devotion, which after 2 seconds turned into pitty.]]>Mar 4th 2009 10:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/Mar 4th 2009 10:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/Mar 4th 2009 10:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/
Movies and tv shows are what does it.

I have 1TB of space for externals and a 250gb internal and they are almost full. I backup my dvds to my HD. If i didnt shrink them down to about 3gb each they would have used up the 1TB in no time.

I also download tv shows, i dont watch tv because i cant stand the ads and the reality crap. At about 170mb an episode it doesnt take long.

Music is at 13gb and i only have a small collection, and its in mp3 format not lossless.

Games at roughly 4gb each...

I would never buy a single 2TB drive though. Too many eggs in one basket. I found the happy medium is 500gb.]]>Mar 4th 2009 10:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/Mar 4th 2009 10:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/
Actually anything 1080p x264 files up the space very easily... most of these torrents are 4-20gb a piece. Heck bluray rips of any season of anythng can take up 25-60 gb easily.

I will be adding a bunch of these 2tb drives to my unraid server as soon the price drops a bit.]]>Mar 4th 2009 10:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/
4.3GB for each DVD "rip" adds up. I have a 1tb raid 1 setup and it's already full somehow.

There's also people out there that download pirated software/movies/music all day and night too. Half of which they'll never use, but i won't go there.]]>Mar 4th 2009 10:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/Mar 5th 2009 3:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/
How many copies of 300 do these people you talk of own?]]>Mar 5th 2009 7:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/Mar 4th 2009 10:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/Mar 4th 2009 10:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/Mar 4th 2009 11:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/I hope you can boot to GPT for Windows 7.... But I have not seen this covered yet!]]>Mar 4th 2009 11:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/
Or were you talking about their next size bump, whatever that might be.]]>Mar 4th 2009 11:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/
Okay, Wrong Wrong Wrong Wrong WRONG.

It's only unbootable if the MBR is pointing at a partition boot sector with a LBA sector address beyond 2 TiB.

Windows 7, when clean installed to an empty harddrive, will create two partitions:
Partition 1: Beginning of drive, 200MB, "Boot, System, Active, Primary Partition".
Partition 2: Rest of space. "System, Page File, Crash Dump, Primary Partition".

So 7 already mitigates the problem by default unless you manually set up a different configuration or set up dual booting or your own partition scheme.

Vista also won't have this problem as long as the beginning of their partition is below 2TiB.
XP as well, after installing the Vista BCD bootloader instead of sticking with NTLDR.

Linux also will not have this problem, because you can assign /boot to any partition.
Usually, I create a 128MB ext2 or FAT16 filesystem as my /boot at the very beginning of EVERY drive in the system.
Grub's handled FAT for years, and GRUB2's no exception. Plus with the ext2ifs for XP/Vista, even windows can edit the grub menu.]]>Mar 19th 2009 8:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/Mar 4th 2009 11:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/Mar 4th 2009 11:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/Mar 5th 2009 12:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/Mar 5th 2009 12:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/Mar 5th 2009 4:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/Mar 5th 2009 8:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/Mar 5th 2009 9:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/]]>Mar 5th 2009 3:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/western-digital-2tb-caviar-green-8tb-sharespace-and-friends-han/
hf-s11 canon video camera records full hd 1080p well it eats 24MB/s so if i had a 2000GB hard drive it only 23.7 hours of video

hello i need a 100 TB hard dirve here anyone sells one? ( although i think flash will get there faster 100tb flash drive lol nice.

I wish we get there soon maybe 2015? lol 2020 1 EB 2025 10 EB 2030 500 EB :D yeah! i think im close]]>Mar 19th 2009 3:18PM