WD's 3TB Internal HD

[Win7User512]

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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[pparks1]

Pretty impressive that it's on 4 platters.

 

[KazeNoKoe23]

The timing of this is funny, given I'm awaiting delivery of a 2 TB external HD to add to my 1 TB.

 

[MoInSTL]

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.

 

[swarfega]

3Tb OS drive hehe

 

[Lee]

I can't even fill up a 1.5 little own. . .

 

[jimbo45]

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

 

[solarmystic]

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!

 

[SledgeDG]

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

 

[24c]

I can't even fill up a 1.5 little own. . .

Don't feel bad - my 640 GB WD has 366 GB free.

 

[mickey megabyte]

world's first hard-drive - 5,000,000 characters, and probably quite expensive.

 

[Win7User512]

world's first hard-drive - 5,000,000 characters, and probably quite expensive.

I'll be the first on my block with one!

 

[brianzion]

great news for large capacity lovers im just thinking of getting a WD caviar green 1TB(the same as i have now) because the price is good at £42 so 3x of these 1TB for under £160 i would go for the latter

 

[sygnus21]

I just deleted an e-mail from Microcenter pushing this hard drive. When WD pushes out a Caviar Black, I "might" consider one.

Though I currently have a 1TB, a 750, and 500gig drive installed in my system, neither one of them is at 50 percent capacity

 

[LiquidSnak]

It will not be long until we see the return of the Quantum Bigfoot.

Can anyone say 20-30 TB drive?

 

[Benjamin Hall]

Just give me a 1tb portable SSD and I'll be happy

 

[mickey megabyte]

just give me a 100gb internal ssd, and i'll be happy.

 

[Benjamin Hall]

I still can't believe how ridiculously expensive SSDs are.... I want to convert over when I build my server... but I'm not sure what the prices on them will be at that point, as I will want a total of 6TB hard drive space by then... (I'll be using it for accessing my files on the go, so I don't have to store them all on my laptop or on a portable drive)

 

[sygnus21]

Just give me a 1tb portable SSD and I'll be happy

I'll take an internal one at a reasonable price

 

[LiquidSnak]

Well if someone is just giving things away, I'll take a property tax paid for the next 100 years house.