WD Ships "World's First" Portable 2TB HDD

[danwat1234]

[citation][nom]CaedenV[/nom]Because they are in a tiny little housing that does not eat vibration as well as a laptop body. Seriously, spin something around at 5400rpm and then move it without breaking it... it's a small miracle they work at all!I loved the opening line lol[/citation]

Yes, but laptop hard drive are rated for 300g of operating shock or more and 1000g of nonoperating shock, whereas desktop drives are only rated for about 65g of operating shock. They are quite tough. But always keep a backup of all your data whether it's to backup a laptop or desktop drive.

PS guys:: This 2TB hard drive is a 4-platter 2.5" hard drive, similar to Seagate's 1.5TB Freeagent Goflex drive.
14-15mm thick internal drive inside the enclosure, versus 12.5mm for a 3-platter drive, vs 9.5mm for a 2-platter drive, vs 7mm for a 1-platter 2.5" drive.

Macbook pro users, with a bit of elbow grease, could put the 1.5TB Goflex in their laptops, and I wonder if the same is true with this hard drive.

Yeah, the price is quite high for a small form factor drive. Usually high capacity laptop drives are cheaper than high capacity desktop drives, but with the Thailand flooding and all...

 

[richboyliang]

It is quite expensive even after the flooding, just the largest manufacturer trying to milk as much out of this flood as possible. Production can't possible be 2x less like prices are more.

 

[agnickolov]

I wonder what should I call my 2x 2TB external drives I bought a year ago... This one may be 2.5", but 3.5" external drives are certainly portable as well.

 

[purrcatian]

It seems that WD is pulling a Seagate and releasing their new internal drives in external drives before offering the drives by them selves. Shame on them.

The reason that external drives are so unreliable is that they often contain remanufactured drives. I bought three WD external drives, took the internal drives out, and put them in my desktop computer. The internal drives were scratched and very clearly returns. Also, 2/3 were dead within 1.5 years. They died just after the warranty expired. WD needs a class action law suite.

 

[ir1keren]

[citation][nom]tigger888[/nom]
[citation][nom]irish_adam[/nom]wow thats a bit much isnt it?[/citation]
Its a very advanced 2gb, you don't even know...[/citation]

It's gold plated and protected by an adamantium case 😀

 

[danwat1234]

[citation][nom]purrcatian[/nom]It seems that WD is pulling a Seagate and releasing their new internal drives in external drives before offering the drives by them selves. Shame on them.The reason that external drives are so unreliable is that they often contain remanufactured drives. I bought three WD external drives, took the internal drives out, and put them in my desktop computer. The internal drives were scratched and very clearly returns. Also, 2/3 were dead within 1.5 years. They died just after the warranty expired. WD needs a class action law suite.[/citation]

No, the internal drive in this enclosure is 4 platters. There is no market for a 2.5" 4 platter laptop drive because the drive bays in laptops are almost never thicker than 12.5mm, and often only 9.5mm (2 platter).

 

[GoldenI]

I think they should be focusing on restoring the amount of hard drives lost in the flooding instead of releasing new ones....

 

[jimoreon]

WD, with this portable bahemoth capacity 2.5" hdd u got the credit, but the price still a bit high

[citation][nom]GoldenI[/nom]I think they should be focusing on restoring the amount of hard drives lost in the flooding instead of releasing new ones....[/citation]

the price was not increasing but changed

 

[baddogcomputing]

2TB is the largest portable drive, so you pay more. Just like with processors. That's why I tell people to always buy a step below the current top of the line. I hope these people that need 2TB in their pocket have some good backups, that's a lot of files to lose. But many won't and they'll get made at WD when the drive won't mount after the 18th time they drop it on a hard surface.

 

[dontknownotsure]

big deal, my old 2tb + usb power adapter are just as good

 

[freggo]

[citation][nom]Kridian[/nom]That's all I hear about these external drives. Why can't they be more reliable?[/citation]

'external' and 'reliable' are an odd pair !
External devices simply live a hard life; kinda like Charly Harper... ergo a somewhat reduced life expectancy 🙂

 

[rosen380]

"and at 2TB imagine how long it will take to transfer stuff off of your old USB2 only PC/laptop... loading.... loading.... loading..."

Well, it would take a lot longer if you had a 500GB drive, since it would run out of space...

 

[apone]

$249.99? Yikes, that's more than my monthly car payment!

 

[youssef 2010]

great news. Makes my old samsung G3 look bad because of all the cables and the power adapter

 

[freggo]

[citation][nom]apone[/nom]$249.99? Yikes, that's more than my monthly car payment![/citation]

Well, try hooking up your car to your laptop's USB port to fill the trunk with your files 🙂

 

[rosen380]

Also- you get to keep the drive forever. Try not making any beyond that first car payment aand see how they let you keep it