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    WD's 3TB Internal HD


    Posted: 19 Oct 2010
    A short while ago, Seagate released world's first 3TB hard drive in the form of the FreeAgent GoFlex Desk. It wasn't so exciting as the drive wasn't intended to be available in the standalone internal form.
    Today, Western Digital announced the availability its own 3TB and 2.5 TB internal hard drives, which are the latest in the WD Caviar Green family, that you can bring home and install into your computer. This is great news for those who want a second and large hard drive for their computer that run Windows 7 or Vista.
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    Posted By: Win7User512
    19 Oct 2010



  1. Posts : 7,878
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
       #1

    Pretty impressive that it's on 4 platters.
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  2. Posts : 554
    Windows 7 Professional x64 SP1
       #2

    The timing of this is funny, given I'm awaiting delivery of a 2 TB external HD to add to my 1 TB.
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  3. Posts : 107
    Windows 7 Professional x64, SP1
       #3

    I was considering a WD Green drive, but not anymore. Eight seconds until it parks the drive?? High load cycles? No thanks. Check out this thread from WD's forums.
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  4. Posts : 4,925
    Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
       #4

    3Tb OS drive hehe
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  5. Lee
    Posts : 1,796
    Win 7 Pro x64, VM Win XP, Win7 Pro Sandbox, Kubuntu 11
       #5

    I can't even fill up a 1.5 little own. . .
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  6. Posts : 5,941
    Linux CENTOS 7 / various Windows OS'es and servers
       #6

    Hi there
    Wasn't a 25 MB disk drive meant to be MORE than enough storage that ANYBODY could ever want or use. Was it IBM or even a well known Mr Gates who said this when PC's first came out into the general public domain.

    Not sure who said this but in the early days of PC's this amount of storage was considered as almost unrealistically high.

    I see now it won't be too long before a 1PB - 1 PETABYTE drive appears (1PB = 1000 TB or 1000 * 1000 GB).

    Cheers
    jimbo
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  7. Posts : 2,072
    Windows 7 x64 Professional SP1
       #7

    Currently have 6 drives for external storage, 3x 2 TB drives and 3x 1 TB drives... this 3 TB drive will be an awesome addition to my collection lol.... 12 TBs..... Yeah!
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  8. Posts : 2,009
    Windows 7 Ultimate x86
       #8

    Oh Boy...do I still remember when WD came up with a 40MB drive and it had to be partitioned because DOS only supported 32 MB
    or even the ~24lbs 10 MB IBM drive I took out of a phased out UNIX Server of 10 years which then ran another 5 years in one of my desktops before it went to HW heaven
    all of a sudden I feel so old

    -DG
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  9. 24c
    Posts : 486
    Win7 x64 Ult
       #9

    Lee said:
    I can't even fill up a 1.5 little own. . .
    Don't feel bad - my 640 GB WD has 366 GB free.
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