Western Digital Unveils Record 2TB HDD Comments

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!

"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?

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.

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

@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.

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?

Ahhh reassuringly expensive.

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