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Keldon

7:22 AM on 27 January, 2009

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Good news :) Now i can replace all 3 drives in my system with just one :)

Or double my space...

P.s. Typo in line two "GB instead of 2TB!

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Martin6

7:56 AM on 27 January, 2009

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"The 3.5in 'WD20EADS' is the world's first 2GB internal HDD"

Has Gordon Got so Excited He missed the T and hit G instead?

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JayWerfalli

8:12 AM on 27 January, 2009

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Typo fixed thanks!

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ibo2007

8:52 AM on 27 January, 2009

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No ball in Seagate's court: I already have a bricked 1T Seagate drive and a mediocre 1.5T Seagate one (mediocre because it can't be used in RAID, it can't copy data without errors and I am wondering if or when will it brick like the 1T did). So, Seagate, please leave the court.

Hopefully, WD will do better and checks their firmwares before releasing time-bombs to the consumers.

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Darfuria

9:05 AM on 27 January, 2009

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300GB "data loss" when you format - yum!

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Keithe6e

2:05 PM on 27 January, 2009

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@It's actually 299 euros over here (approx. £279 *exchange rate heart attack*)

Yep, were still rip of Britain during a Recession.

The thing is your calculation of £178 wouldn't be too bad, still more than have 2T's thought.

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smc8788

2:45 PM on 27 January, 2009

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They're available for preorder here for £207:

http://tinyurl.com/brqf63

I don't really see why you'd want one as your system drive given the performance hit you'll get with such a large drive, and you can get 4 640GB drive (~2.5TB) which are cheaper and faster. They would be great if you just want lots of data storage, but then again, external 2TB drives have been available for a while now. I expect these would be ideal for a HTPC setup though, and much better than the 1.5TB Seagate drive which from what I have heard has lots of issues and problems with recent firmware updates destroying drives.

@ Darfuria. What is this 'data loss' you speak of? Or are you referring to the decimal/binary prefix confusion?

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John McLean

2:46 PM on 27 January, 2009

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Ahhh reassuringly expensive.

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smc8788

2:50 PM on 27 January, 2009

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And no sooner do I post a comment than you put up the review. My that was fast!

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