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    New Western Digital 3 TB drive

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by mmoy, Oct 19, 2010.

  1. mmoy

    mmoy Notebook Deity

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    Looks like a no-go on Windows XP, partial support on Vista/7 32-bit and good support on Win 7 64-bit. No problems with Mac of course. If Apple does a nice MacBook Air tomorrow, then I will consider turning my 17 inch MacBook Pro into my home desktop by plugging it into my existing 24 inch Dell monitor and hooking it up to an external drive. I would like the external drive to hold at least 2 TB and the introduction of the new 3 tb drive has me interested.

    WD Caviar Green 3TB Hard Drive Review - HotHardware
     
    mmoy, Oct 19, 2010
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    cdcohen Notebook Consultant

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    !!!!

    I just purchased a WD Green 2TB last month for my media desktop, I hate it when this happens.
     
    cdcohen, Oct 19, 2010
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    You never want to put too many eggs in one basket. You are better off going for some form of redundancy rather than losing 3tb all at once :(
     
    bhattsan, Oct 19, 2010
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  4. mmoy

    mmoy Notebook Deity

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    You can always get two of them.

    I have two 1 TB drives at home. One of them is for the Mac and the other for my desktop. I could just get a 3 TB and use the other two for backup. I don't actually have 3 TB of stuff but it's nice to buy something and not have to worry about it for a few years. I wish that they would just jump to 10 TB.
     
    mmoy, Oct 19, 2010
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    Huskerz85 Notebook Evangelist

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    Good point, I was kinda bummed about that myself (my Dell runs Vista x32). Also, it's a pretty expensive gamble to take right now. Would rather go for a lower capacity drive (around 1TB) and get an external drive with identical capacity for backups/redundancy.......
     
    Huskerz85, Oct 19, 2010
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    yuio NBR Assistive Tec. Tec.

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    I've bought 2TB WD drives for 100$. the 3TB will be 240$+ I'd just grab a couple 2TB disks.
     
    yuio, Oct 19, 2010
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  7. mmoy

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    Well, the 3 TB disks should push down the price of the 2s.
     
    mmoy, Oct 19, 2010
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  8. ZaZ

    ZaZ Super Model Super Moderator

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    If you've only got one drive bay available, then you're in trouble. I might have to pick one of these up for my media server.
     
    ZaZ, Oct 20, 2010
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