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WD 2TB Caviar Green Monster Drive
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... Today Western Digital is announcing their WD20WEADS drive, otherwise known as the WD Caviar Green 2.0TB. With 32MB of onboard cache and special power management algorithms that make use of that cache to balance spindle speed and transfer rates, the WD Caviar Green 2TB claims a top rung spot on the density-per-square-inch and power-efficiency ladder. We've had an engineering sample here in house for a few days and have done some preliminary testing on it. Link: HotHardware
Western Digital WD20WEADS Is the First 2TB Internal Drive [Hard Drives]
Gizmodo —
... when 1TB, 3.5-inch drives were all the rage? Well those days are over, as Western Digital has released their 2TB Caviar Green, available now for $299. The 3.5-inch SATA drive features a 32 MB cache and about 1.8TB of actual space once you get things up and running. When Hot Hardware tested the WD drive against its 1TB, 7200RPM peers, the 2TB Caviar more than held its ground in general testing. Read more about those results in the second link. [Western Digital via Hot Hardware]
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Western Digital launches 2 terabyte green drive
TweakTown's News RSS Feed —
... . Hothardware has a preview here . A quick glance at the numbers here show this new big-boy Caviar Green drive from WD offering more than competitive performance versus the likes of Samsung's Spinpoint F1 and Seagate's Barracuda 7200.11 -- both 7200RPM-based products. HD Tach shows an average read speed of 90MB/s and average writes at 80MB/s. We'll be digging into performance metrics with other tools like IOMeter in the days ahead but this early view certainly looks good for a disk with this sort of capacity. We'll be looking at power as well but WD claims this drive drops ...
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Tuesday Evening Roundup
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... - OCZ ModXstream Pro 500w PSU @ Overclock3D - Channel Well Technologies PUC1200V 1200W PSU @ RWlabs - Thermaltake Toughpower Cable Management 750W Power Supply @ Modders-Inc. Cooling - Round Up: 11 CPU Coolers @ Cowcotland - Noctua NH-U12P tower cooler @ Ocaholic - LGA 1366 CPU Cooler Roundup @ CDRInfo Storage - USB Flash Drive Comparison part 2 - FAT32 vs NTFS vs ExFAT @ Testfreaks - WD 2TB Caviar Green Monster Drive @ Hot Hardware - OCZ Apex Series 250GB Solid State Drive @ PC Perspective - LiteOn ...
Western Digital Launches World's First 2TB Hard Drives
Techgage News —
... Our friends at Hot Hardware have had an ES drive in their lab for the past week and have been able to put it to a quick test to see how it delivers on the performance front. Once formatted, the drive will offer 1.81 TB for use, and at first glance, you can expect a read speed of around 90.0 MB/s, and Write of 80.3 MB/s. Not too shabby for a low-powered super-large drive! You can expect these to begin popping up on your favorite e-tailers this week. ...
Hardware Roundup: Wednesday Edition
Overclockers Club news Feed —
... DIABLO DDR3-2000MHz 3GB Triple Channel Memory Kit @ TweakTown
Motherboards
ASUS M4A79T Deluxe Motherboard Pictures - Socket AM3 @ Legit Reviews
GIGABYTE GA-EP45-DS3R Motherboard @ Motherboards.org
Operating Systems
Windows Vista Service Pack 2's Latest Release Schedule @ Tech ARP
Storage/Hard Drives
OCZ Apex Series 250GB Solid State Drive @ PC Perspective
WD 2TB Caviar Green Monster Drive @ HotHardware
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