WD® LAUNCHES INDUSTRY'S FIRST 2 TB HARD DRIVES

Western Digital ^ | WD

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

LAKE FOREST, Calif. - Jan. 27, 2009 - WD (NYSE: WDC) today announced the first 2 terabyte (TB) hard drive - the world's highest capacity drive and the latest addition to WD's popular, environmentally friendly, cool and quiet, WD® Caviar® Green™ hard drive family. This new 3.5-inch platform is based on WD's industry-leading 500 GB/platter technology (with 400 Gb/in2 areal density) with 32 MB cache, producing drives with capacities of up to 2 TB.

[antiRepublicrat]

I just took stock of the various machines my family has attached to the home network. I came up with 2.4 TB of total storage.

Interesting idea. I'll try. 3.5 TB, 3.3 TB if you don't count the networked game machines. My first purchased hard drive about 15 years ago was 340 MB, less than .02% of the size of this drive. That's what I call progress.

I'd go for the 9mm.

[TexasRepublic]

My first hard drive was 10 MB.

[wastedyears]

When the person that made that .gif did, did they try to get a realistic amount of the data on the internet? ‘Cuz I have a feeling it’s a little more than 23billion MB.

[expat_panama]

The graphics quality suggests Windows 98; it would be nice to update it but it wouldn't stay updated for long.

I like this one better but it's harder to fit it in to a thread...

[Born Conservative]

I’ve had good luck with Acronis TrueImage for backing up partitions/data as images. I did just restore a partition to the wife’s laptop, and it went smoothly.

I’ve heard that Norton Ghost isn’t what it used to be, although I’ve never used it.

[Born Conservative]

Once the 3 TB drives come out by summer, the 2 TB drives will be down to $150 :)

[ADemocratNoMore]

> The item with manufacturing flaws fail quickly and the good stuffs last.

Quite true, that's why I stay away from extended warranties, if it doesn’t break out of the box it will usually last forever.

[Quix]

I have Acronis . . . hasn’t worked worth a flip in terms of when I needed it—says to copy to another file to open but provided me no way to do the copying and saving to another file. Most frustrating.

Thanks for the input.

[ADemocratNoMore]

> Have lots of cheap ones redundantly backed up or have one of the more expensive older types as well?

Both, if you can afford it. I also remember reading about a study that found that drives that were in everyday use lasted longer than drives that were used infrequently.

Don't know about your other question about backing up your desktop settings. Perhaps saving the registry might do it, does win.ini even exist anymore?. Good luck.

[ADemocratNoMore]

My first hard drive was a 20Mb Techmar aftermarket drive for the Amiga 1000. They also made a 2 Mb memory add-on. Costs were $2,000 and $2,500 respectively, or maybe the other way around. I got them used for far less.

[Still Thinking]

Any time I hear a product, especially an electronic product, is “green”, I get leery. Much of the stuff they think is “green” is actually ecologically pointless or at best trivial, and potentially damaging to the reliability of the product, such as the use of lead-free solder.

And even if it has no impact on the product, if they’re stupid or trying to take advantage of stupid people by selling something to them that is actually a boondoggle, there should be a heavy price to pay for that.

[Darwin Fish]

Maxtor makes a series of external USB HD’s that are very reasonably priced. They have a software program included that takes an entire image of your computer (that means everything, desktop, all software, programs, emails, EVERYTHING), and you set it to automatically do it at certain times.

In between images, it backs up incrementally every day (also setable).

If your entire system dies, you get a new HD, install in your computer, insert the CD that comes with Maxtor, and it will rebuild your entire computer from the external HD. Takes a few hours, but you don’t have to do much besides wait. Bingo, your computer is back the way it was.

I have a 400 gig on my main box.

[Quix]

I have such a Maxtor about 4 or so years old. I forget how large.

It gave me fits. Maybe the software is better now.

I wonder if I could upgrade the software and make it work.

I forget what model.

Thanks for reminding me of that system.

[Desron13]

"Those hard drives keep getting bigger and I keep filling them up... LOL..."

I remember when the early IBM PCs came out with 10MB hard drives and people said what will you ever do with that much space? :-)

[TexasRepublic]

I remember when the early IBM PCs came out with 10MB hard drives and people said what will you ever do with that much space? :-)

It didn't take long to fill. I had an early copy of AutoCad that used 2.5mb, a quarter of my drive space. I was outraged at such bloat!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I just came across a Linux product that seems to do the Ghost thing....

[Quix]

Sounds wonderful.

I wonder if it would work on the aspire!

Will FREEPMAIL you my email.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

See this...I think there are others also:

G4L

G4L is a hard disk and partition imaging and cloning tool. The created images are optionally compressed and transferred to an FTP server or cloned locally. Version 0.27 adds ssh backup on local menu, and encryption on Network menu.

Posted By: msetzerii
Date: 2009-01-07 08:40
Summary: g4l-v0.28 released

Latest changes with 0.28abusybox-1.13.2 - cleaned up appletssyslinux 3.73 pre 7updated updcastkernels up to 2.6.27.10kernel 2.6.28added chkldd to check librariesmoved programs to match with location on Fedora 8changed back to use Fedora dd and gzip because of speed issuesUsing grub4dos to run g4l from NTFS partitions.ftp://amd64gcc.dyndns.org/g4llinux.exeAbove link is a test file that contains the files necessary.updated udpcast programs to 12/13/2008added option to use run="command" from grub (added to g4lmenu)

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Another one:

Clonezilla Ghost Like Linux Partition or Disk Clone Software

[Quix]

MUCH APPRECIATED.

THANKS THANKS.