Storage Solutions 1TB? It's time for 2TB!

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Tech ARP reviews WD's latest Caviar Green 2TB drive...

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Like all Caviar Green hard drives, this 2 TB model has a spindle speed that is somewhere between 5,400 RPM and 7,200 RPM. This allows the drive to run cooler and use less power. This was confirmed by our tests which showed that the 2 TB Caviar Green was a very cool hard drive. It was as cool as the 1 TB Caviar Green at peak load although the 1 TB model was much cooler at idle speeds.

Unfortunately, the slower spindle speed also reduces the drive's performance, compared to other desktop hard drives which have a spindle speed of 7,200 RPM. Its higher areal density does somewhat make up for the slower spindle speed, but not its seek performance. Hence, its poorer performance in some of our benchmark tests.

With that said, it is still an impressive achievement. Two terabytes of storage capacity in a 3.5" hard disk drive is nothing to scoff about, especially when it also boasts low power consumption and thermal output. It will be a great choice for those who are looking for a large storage capacity for videos.
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Read full article here : Tech ARP - Western Digital 2 TB Caviar Green Serial ATA Hard Disk Drive Review

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I've been planning to build a NAS/Home media server for myself, and I always end up in dilemma selecting the case. To go for ATX mini tower cabinet which let you add more HDDs or to go for mini-ITX cabinets, which are very small in size, but comes with limited storage upgrade capability as they feature either single or two HDD slots.

Having a large drive like this for storage, with a smaller 2.5" faster drive for OS make sense, as you get app performance via smaller drive, while the larger drive is perfect for storage. Even though it's slow, it doesn't make lot of difference as you're not looking for groundbreaking performance. Plus, it's slower speed helps in lesser power consumption for 24x7 usage. :)

No doubts it's pricey. At the cost of this one drive ($300 via newegg) you can get almost 3 1TB drives, but then that's price of being first. I'm sure as Seagate catch with WD, the prices would fall more, making it quite a lucrative drive for large storage Home Servers and NAS alike.

 
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Don't really have to care about the Speeds when you want it for Data Dumps. 2 TB is way to go for a single hdd. Perfect for data dump , although if there was something with 7200RPM would've been better. :)
 
sickizblank said:
although if there was something with 7200RPM would've been better
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Off-course... it would have been better. But WD lists the spindle speeds of Caviar Green drives to be variable between 5400 to 7200 RPM per model.

So essentially, this drive isn't 7200 but could be tad faster than 5400 (WD doesn't list actual spindle speed or seek times for Caviar Green drives). Plus, bit slower spindle speeds should be helping the drive in lower power consumption if I'm not wrong.

I would still think about getting two Caviar Green 1TB drives instead this, only because of high price... but if this drive comes down to same or slightly higher cost of two 1TB drives, I'll blindly pick this up. :)
 
if you wait for a year the prices usually fall by around 50%. but if you require dumping space badly get the 1Tb ones.
 
How much stuff do you guys dump? I have a 1tb and its almost full with games and movies but once it gets full I delete the old stuff esp old not so good movies. I guess you guys like to keep everything and not delete stuff.
 
^^^ I felt exactly the same way when back in 1985 I used to run 360kb floppies and bought my first 20MB HDD !! ... TRULY !! ... :)
 
Btw is there a life for DVDs as well? Even I burn all my data to DVDs for backup. Its been almost 3 years that I have been doing this, so far ( touchwood ) all my DVDs are intact and read properly.
 
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