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WD Caviar Green SATA Hard Drives 2 TB, SATA 3 Gb/s, 64 MB Cache.
I guess its a deal if you live in WA…
2TB Western Digital SATA2 Hard Drive $150 from NetPlus.com.au
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$19 bucks for delivery to Sydney…. sometimes flat rate shipping can be a pain.
I wonder if OW will pricematch these drives from MSY, Netplus and the like cause AFAIK the drives computer shops sell aren't the retail packaging that OW sell so they're not exactly the same product are they.
But anyway $150 for a 2TB HDD is a good price, good to see that not only the east coast are getting awesome deals.$158.95 on staticice, delivered not much of a bargain, but pickup(in WA) save a few bucks!
ps since these green drives sacrifice performance for power i would only use it as secondary storage, i.e use a fast hdd/ssd for boot drive and this for the rest
agreed, good advice…the 2tb should be used as storage…and in 300-500gb partitions to minimise space loss from formatting. the bigger each individual partition, the less capacity you'll have available to use for storage.
What do you mean the bigger the partition the less space you have to use? Never heard about that before.
haven't you noticed that when you get a hard disk you actually get to use nowhere near as much as the capacity listed? e.g if i have a 1.5tb hdd, i'll actaully get to use only about 1.2tb
this is the loss i'm talking about. i've found that this is minimised by having more smaller individual partitions.
@abchakraborty: That loss is because HDD manufactures define 1.5TB to be 1,500,000,000,000 bytes, literally 1500 billion bytes, Windows on the other hand define 1500 billioon bytes to be 1396-1397 billion bytes. This is because windows defines kilo/mega/giga/tera to be multiples of 1024, and the prefix should actually kibi/mebi/gibi/tebi.
Basically the people who make HDDs quote the size of you HDD in Giga and Tera bytes while windows (not sure about other OS) quote the size in gibi and tebi bytes. That's where the "loss" occurs.I doubt partitioning your HDD into smaller patitions will affect the size of storage, as a HDD is manufactured with a set number of bytes. Go add the number of bytes of each properties quoted in the properties of each drive and it should add up to roughly 2,000,000,000,000 (should be slightly more, my 640GB hdd is quoted to be 640,132,575,232 bytes and my 500GB HDD is quoted to be 500,000,878,592 bytes.
@Trance N Dance: hmm…you're probably right…i hope so anyhow…smaller partitions are better for other reasons anyway, but i guess the differences in "bit" vs "byte" will be even more noticable as hdds get larger.
How much space does the allocation table take up?
Lol… So if i get a jug of water and poor into 5 cups I now have more water? :)
Bought one on the weekend. Good price, if they could only hurry their staff up when serving, it would be an awesome shop!
umart.com.au have this drive for 119 i believe?
That's orange, not green.