2TB (2048 GB) Drive

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Is your collection of “media” growing at an exponential rate? Western Digital could have what you’re looking for, as it launches the industry’s first 2 TB hard disk drive.

Western Digital’s first 2 TB hard drive (model WD20EADS) makes use of the company’s 500 GB/platter technology (with 400 Gb/in2 areal density), with a set of four to make up the massive capacity. The drive will feature a 32 MB cache.

Most computer users are still running modestly sized drives in comparison to WD’s new offering, and seem to be managing fine. Will there ever be a real need to hit 2 TB when even 1 TB seems like a luxury? Mark Geenen, president of Trend Focus, says more and more people are taking to the roominess.

"While some in the industry wondered if the end consumer would buy a 1 TB drive, already some 10 percent of 3.5-inch hard drive sales are at the 1 TB level or higher, serving demand from video applications and expanding consumer media libraries," said Geenen. "The 2 TB hard drives will continue to satisfy end user's insatiable desire to store more data on ever larger hard drives."

The new 3.5-inch drive will be a part of the Caviar Green family, which, as the name suggests, is part of WD’s low-energy line. The drive will make use of IntelliPower, which WD says “fine-tunes the balance of spin speed, transfer rate and caching algorithms designed to deliver both significant power savings and solid performance."

Overall, however, the new 2 TB drive’s specialty is storage, not speed. The WD20EADS should be filling channels and carries with it an MSRP of $299.

What would you do with all that space?

if i going to have a big space like that i want to save all my software application like first is 1. adobe, second (2) auto-cad (3) movies (4) and all knowledgeable application that i could learned..

....i just want to save pics,my favorite movies and other
important details needed to be saved.

if i have that kind of drive i save all the importance videos picture song and also my documents and application

sir.....! all i can say is that...! so high capacity and i really like it....! if i can have one of that of course i will save everything that is need to save hehehe......!GOD BLESS......!

if i'll be able to have that drive i will really take care of it..and maybe i could venture the field of animation..and make my own animated films then save all of those in that drive,..hahaha,love that course..

it's nice to have a bigger storage...
but the more you have it, the more you wanna buy more...
hehehe

actually i have:

2 pcs. 750GB disk
1 pc 250 GB disk
1 pc 160 GB disk
1 pc 80 GB drive
2 pcs 160GB Lacie

those are my secondary drives...
i also have...

1 PC 8GB for my very old desktop
1 pc 10GB for my old PC
1pc 30 GB for my old ASUS laptop
1pc 320 GB for my HP
1pc 80GB for my Apple Mac...these are my primary

I have 3 flash drives...
1 8GB
1 4GB
1 1GB

but now? I still have problems....
on where to put my files hehehe

saba woi..
pagarpar hahaha