[Cyber Lord]

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With High Definition content being stored on hard drives more and more frequently, and the latest games having increasingly large installations, hard drive space fills up quickly. Western Digital comes to the rescue with the first 2 TB hard drive expected to launch later this week.

ZoomThe WD20EADS will be part of Western Digital's Caviar Green series. It will have 32 MB of cache, a seek time of 8.9ms and will run at either 5400RPM or 7200RPM. The drive is expected to have four 500 GB platters.

Information about the WD20EADS first appeared when online retailer Czech Computer listed it on their website back in December 2008, however they have not indicated any stock up to this point.

MSRP is not yet known, but rumours are pointing to retail prices of about $210-240, making it slightly more expensive than a pair of drives in the lower end of the 1TB price range. We'll know the price soon enough when the drive hits the shelves later this week.

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Cyber lord, on Jan 13 2009, 09:09 PM, said:

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That should last until the SSD disks begin coming onto the market. Nice stuff.

[n3g4t1v3]

Maybe I can get two 1's for cheaper now!

[Andy]

Gonna buy 2 of these, plug it into the WDTV and I will have 4TB* of media to browse and play.

[Edit] Thanks ScHAmPi.

[ScHAmPi]

Mind Freak, on Jan 14 2009, 10:04 PM, said:

Gonna buy 2 of these, plug it into the WDTV and I will have 4GB of media to browse and play.

I think you mean 4TB .

I don't know much about SSD but I seem to be somewhat afraid of them because they have a limit on the amount of times data can be overwritten.

Until I learn to trust them the usual HDD's will do for me and this might be one of them in a year when the prices have taken a dive.

[mrmojorisin]

i'm guessing that they will cost a small fortune in the uk, ah well im busy filling my wd elements 1tb drive that only cost me 78 quid

[Andy]

ScHAmPi, on Jan 14 2009, 09:59 PM, said:

I think you mean 4TB .

Yup I did, thanks for noticing.