Western Digital Ships 2TB Enterprise-Class HDD

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Western Digital Corp. (NYSE: WDC) today expanded its enterprise family of hard drives to include the next-generation 2 TB capacity, the largest and only 2 TB enterprise-class hard drive shipping today. Combining industry-leading 64 MB cache, dual processors, and increased areal density, WD RE4-GP hard drives yield twice the processing power resulting in as much as 25 percent performance improvement over the previous generation.
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has anyone else noticed that hdd's are becoming larger then we need? i have 2tb now on my server, and im having trouble finding stuff to fill it... 1.3tb and very slowly now adding more... its going to be 6 months before i even look for more space....
 
Fixed link: http://www.westerndigital.com/en/company/releases/PressRelease.asp?release={E481597C-045A-4864-8325-F96D2E809FC4}

I must be going blind, I don't see anywhere in their article that tells us what interface that HDD uses. If it's SATA, then meh, I wouldn't use it on my servers. Considering the low price of $329, I'm betting it's SATA.

SAS would likely cost two or three times more.
 
Their definition of "enterprise class" is much different than anyone elses in the storage industry.
 
spacetrader said:
has anyone else noticed that hdd's are becoming larger then we need?
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Tell that to those who:

- record high definition television content and don't want to compress their shows to save space
- make multiple backups of one or more computers
- create raid arrays / storage matrices and want to save money on their electric bill in the long run by maximizing storage ability with the least amount of running physical hardware
- have that ever growing pr0n folder :p
 
GushpinBob said:
Tell that to those who:

- record high definition television content and don't want to compress their shows to save space
- make multiple backups of one or more computers
- create raid arrays / storage matrices and want to save money on their electric bill in the long run by maximizing storage ability with the least amount of running physical hardware
- have that ever growing pr0n folder :p
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QFT. There is so such thing as enough storage. the fact that there is a market for such high volume storage proves it.
 
spacetrader said:
has anyone else noticed that hdd's are becoming larger then we need? i have 2tb now on my server, and im having trouble finding stuff to fill it... 1.3tb and very slowly now adding more... its going to be 6 months before i even look for more space....
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Speak for yourself.

24TB here and counting.
 
Over the years, I've told myself "I'll NEVER fill this hard drive up" waaaaaaay too many times.
 
spacetrader said:
has anyone else noticed that hdd's are becoming larger then we need? i have 2tb now on my server, and im having trouble finding stuff to fill it... 1.3tb and very slowly now adding more... its going to be 6 months before i even look for more space....
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I currently have 864GiB of 6.36TiB (8x1TB) free on my main array, then i have that all backed up on other machines... i'm waiting for 3-6TB drives for my next upgrade..
 
My current consumption is about 500GB per month, and I will need more space in July (12.2TB will be filled). :(
 
spacetrader said:
has anyone else noticed that hdd's are becoming larger then we need? i have 2tb now on my server, and im having trouble finding stuff to fill it... 1.3tb and very slowly now adding more... its going to be 6 months before i even look for more space....
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Speak for yourself.

I could fill up a 2TB drive in under a month easy if without trying. I find it far more harder to not dl that much stuff than to dl it. And thats without dl'ing HD quality stuff. If I were dl'ing HD/Blu-Ray quality versions of stuff, good game.
 
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