<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/1/27 Kilian CAVALOTTI <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kilian.cavalotti.work@gmail.com">kilian.cavalotti.work@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Gerry Creager <<a href="mailto:gerry.creager@tamu.edu">gerry.creager@tamu.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
> Have had some first hand experience with 1.5TB drives. I'll not go down<br>
> that path again for some time. Seagate didn't yet gifure out how to make<br>
> them reliable.<br>
><br>
> Has anyone yet played with the WD 2TB drives or are they still in the<br>
> Marketing/Vaporware stage?<br>
<br>
Not sure they're available for purchase yet, but hothardware has a<br>
preview of a pre-release engineering sample:<br>
<a href="http://hothardware.com/News/WD-2TB-Caviar-Green-Monster-Drive-Preview/" target="_blank">http://hothardware.com/News/WD-2TB-Caviar-Green-Monster-Drive-Preview/</a><br>
<br>
Interesting thing is that this presumably 5400rpm drives outperforms<br>
its 7200rpm counterparts. And it's green too. :)<br>
<br></blockquote></div><br>It isn't a 5400rpm driver, it is multispeed with speed between 5400 and 7200rpm.<br>