Caught this drive model on Amazon 2x days ago (Sunday) for $139.99 shipped (Prime). Currently this is the fastest 2TB drive (non-enterprise) available .. challenging Velociraptor models. Will be replacing my 750GB "data drive" on my computer .. which also has 300GB (partitioned) Velociraptor for system drive.
I agree - but this is the cheapest I have seen. I tried to get Micro center to price match, and they said they couldn't because that would be below cost. I don't think it'll get much lower than this.
These drives are ground pounders. I bought 7 - 1TB models.. had two failures, both RMA'd through WD.. replacements have worked fine since. Great hard drives.
not trying to say the deal's bad, but just out of curiosity, what do you need a 7200RPM 2TB drive for? 5400RPM seems to work for everything that would possibly need a 2TB drive for.
CRyPT99 said: not trying to say the deal's bad, but just out of curiosity, what do you need a 7200RPM 2TB drive for? 5400RPM seems to work for everything that would possibly need a 2TB drive for.
If you've ever done any large scale video editing then you would know that the speed of the HD also comes into play when converting files. Also even for gaming the 7200's load quite a bit faster up to 33% in some cases I've seen. Just check any gaming forum and you will see the 5400 vs 7200 rpm debate everywhere.
Now for just plain storage then you can stream 1080p off of either.
Are these *more compatible with Windows Home Server? I know the EARS versions work fine but are sort of risky. Full disclosure: I have been using a 2TB EARS with the jumper and have had no issues. I just feel safer if MS approved of a 2TB drive.
DrJr said: dannyLlama said: bluechipwi said: Caught this drive model on Amazon 2x days ago (Sunday) for $139.99 shipped (Prime). .
I went to Amazon, cheapest I found was 164. Link? Or is it expired now?
Expired; it was only @ that price for a day. It'll come back down for BF though.
$150 seems like a deal, but not a hot deal. These drives should be around $120 for hotness. since we're talking prices, black WDs may be $140, but green ones are $100 on sale.
fredfr said: I use 2 of these for RAID0 on a Mac Pro and they are fantastic, incredibly fast. Apparently Raid0 is not "real raid", so there is no problem.
I dont know that incredibly fast really applies to standard hdd's anymore now that SSD's are becoming more reasonable in price. These better performing hdd's like this one are fine for a bit better then average performance for a single drive system...or maybe a high performance array (but how necessary is that as far as most consumers go?)....but for most people wanting a performance setup these days, a small SSD (like a 60gb vertex2 for example) + large hdd(s) for storage (5400rpm green type drives IMO since they run cooler, use less power, and theoreticly may be a bit more reliable due to that) is the way to go. Performance is there on the SSD for the OS and software, and storage on the hdd for both longevity, cost effectiveness, and to counter SSD's poor performance on writes of large files. With a setup like that, you could blow overall performance out of the water in comparison...and can be done for under $200 assuming about $140 for an SSD like that and $50 for 1TB hdd for example. That's my 2 cents.
jckdavis390
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posted: Sep. 7, 2010 @ 10:59p
nice price! but i prefer 1TB, 2TB is too large for me
tomatthe said: Do not plan on using these in any form of Raid. Just FYI deal is nice, but these drives do not work in a Raid setup. Of course they work in a RAID setup. You just need to stop drinking the Western Digital Kool-Aid and disable the head parking on idle:
Etch said: fredfr said: I use 2 of these for RAID0 on a Mac Pro and they are fantastic, incredibly fast. Apparently Raid0 is not "real raid", so there is no problem.
I dont know that incredibly fast really applies to standard hdd's anymore now that SSD's are becoming more reasonable in price. These better performing hdd's like this one are fine for a bit better then average performance for a single drive system...or maybe a high performance array (but how necessary is that as far as most consumers go?)....but for most people wanting a performance setup these days, a small SSD (like a 60gb vertex2 for example) + large hdd(s) for storage (5400rpm green type drives IMO since they run cooler, use less power, and theoreticly may be a bit more reliable due to that) is the way to go. Performance is there on the SSD for the OS and software, and storage on the hdd for both longevity, cost effectiveness, and to counter SSD's poor performance on writes of large files. With a setup like that, you could blow overall performance out of the water in comparison...and can be done for under $200 assuming about $140 for an SSD like that and $50 for 1TB hdd for example. That's my 2 cents. Concurrent, multithreaded read/write performance for a $140 SSD is still nowhere close to spindles, not in that price range. And nobody knows about the longevity of SSD yet, although the cheaper manufacturers use cheaper memory schemes that have a fairly low maximum rewrites threshold.
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