Tech Break

It’s here, folks…2TB of glory. That’s right, 2,000 GB, 2,000,000 MB or two trillion bytes (and then some) of storage in a single desktop drive. The drive speed is quite good as well, despite the tweaks Western Digital makes to “Caviar Green” disks that favor low vibration and power consumption over raw speed. The price, $229, is a bit high. However this is suggested retail price, and nobody onine ever follows that. Another bonus: the drive isn’t part of Seagate’s 7200.11 series (which includes the erstwhile champion 1.5TB drive), which has had a nasty habit of firmware problems. Or, for that matter, the 500GB drives that called in dead after a firmware update.

This drive should be awesome for external use, even over a high-bandwidth link like FireWire 800, and looks to hold its own very well in the internal space as well. I can’t wait to get one myself…video chews up a lot of space!

If you’re looking for model numbers, this is the WD20EADS by the way. If you want to scale back a bit in price and capacity, a 1TB version is out now (and has been for awhile), with a 1.5TB version coming soon.

So if you need something bigger…for storage…this drive is just the ticket.