2TB?! Okay, Now This Is Just Getting Ridiculous

[WRXWagon2112]

Here I am considering the cost of springing for a 1 terabyte drive, and they've just introduced a 2 terabyte internal hard drive. Ah, progress!

Remember when 1TB, 3.5-inch drives were all the rage? Well those days are over, as Western Digital has released their 2TB Caviar Green, available now for $299.

The 3.5-inch SATA drive features a 32 MB cache and about 1.8TB of actual space once you get things up and running. When Hot Hardware tested the WD drive against its 1TB, 7200RPM peers, the 2TB Caviar more than held its ground in general testing. Read more about those results in the second link.

--Alan

[sirwilliam]

Ah yes...hardware improves...software is still catching up

[chicken n waffles]

i think i still have my 1gig hard drive lying around here somewhere. man that thing was the envy of my dorm mates back in the day.

[complacent]

I'm getting pretty close to being in desperate need of about five of these.

I just hope I can rebuild the arrays for less than $250/drive.

[avriette]

I'm getting pretty close to being in desperate need of about five of these.

When I last built the stripe at home, I explained to $wife that we'd just built a new raid, we were only using 338gb, and that we had two terabytes of free space (thus, went the reasoning, we weren't going to need any new storage for at least two years). A year later, and we've lost one of the drives in the stripe, and one of the spare drives, and we're at 95% capacity on the stripe. Argh. I'd been thinking of getting four 1tb internal drives to replace the > 10 external drives, but it didn't seem like enough of a boost in capacity to justify breaking everything. Looks like we've managed to swing in favor of replacing all those drives.

I suppose it's nice in that it reduces the amount of noise and heat in the living room... I just have to wonder how long storage is going to last at this rate, given we are now storing blu-ray discs and HD episodes of e.g., BSG.

[Libra Monkee]

I haven't quite filled up the 2.7TB available in my Drobo but when I do it's good to know that this'll be there.

[Mr Kleen]

I haven't quite filled up the 2.7TB available in my Drobo but when I do it's good to know that this'll be there.

how you likin' the drobo?

[Sabre]

Cheap SATA RAID card + Cheap server case + drives = lot's o space Ebay is an excellent source for a lot of components (as is micro centers sales, w00t!)

[Libra Monkee]

I haven't quite filled up the 2.7TB available in my Drobo but when I do it's good to know that this'll be there.

how you likin' the drobo?

It's awesome! All I had to do was load it full of drives. It configures itself pretty much. It takes a while to format depending on how much storage you put in there but once that's done you're good to go. Plus I got the DroboShare so now it's a NAS device. They also have, what they call, DroboApps to give it added functionality. I haven't played around with them yet though. Still trying to get all of my data migrated over.