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Luan Bach

9:03 AM on 7 August, 2009

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ooo..4.4w may mean that it may be possible to have such a drive on bus power for USB3.

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Xamph

2:21 PM on 7 August, 2009

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That 4.4W is idle power, the startup "surge power" would be at least twice that and active power not far off. You'll need multiple USB ports :)

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Rob

4:02 PM on 7 August, 2009

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"Unlike the largest SSDs, the very highest capacity HDDs tend to come with a price penalty"

Do you not mean profrmance penalty?

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Ben

4:41 PM on 7 August, 2009

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AFAIK they haven't actually increased density on the platters in this drive, they've actually included a whole extra platter and head - unlike rivals WD and Seagate. This drive may look good now, but better to wait for the WD 7200rpm one IMHO.

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DangerousQ

6:05 PM on 7 August, 2009

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Is this a real launch? with drives available now because I havent seen these anywhere. Or is this just a paperwork exercise to say they are the first because the WD 2TB drive has been available to pre-order for quite sometime now and its specs look far better than Hitachi with 64 MB cache and 5 yr warranty on the RE versions

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GoldenGuy

6:17 PM on 7 August, 2009

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Until it's mobile/2½" X 9½", I'm not interested.

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jopey

12:05 AM on 8 August, 2009

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Think I'll get one of the WD 2TB 5 year warranty jobbies when W7 comes out. Should be big enough for the 64bit version.. just.

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Tony Walker

6:01 AM on 8 August, 2009

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The 5400rpm drives are certainly availble as I've got a pair beside me in a WD Worldbook Studio RAID drive connected over eSATA. I have them as RAID 1 (mirror) but you can stripe them (RAID 0). They are a slow drive at about 3/5 speed of my Samsung HD501LJ 500gb drive.

Costs about £350 and allows you to get your backups up-to-date.

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