WD 2TB hard drive gets shiny new coat

I am looking for something like this which has a Bit Torrent client and HDMI. Am I asking too much? Does anyone know where I can get something like this?

£170 for 1TB
£370 for 2TB

Lets do the maths ...

2 x 1TB = £340

WD must think we are thick.

The only one thick is you, Mr. Pot. New high-capacity drives are always priced higher than their lower capacity bretheren because they're newer, and they pack more drive space into a single drive. That 2x1TB is just fine if you have spare space for two drives instead of two; you could make the same argument for 750GB or 500GB drives too, as they're even cheaper per GB. Some people, however, need and want single large drives because they don't have that luxury.

Yeah, sure I guess its nice having the worlds biggest single drive, shame they had to cut the spindle speed to 5400rpm to do it though (dig a little into WD "green" drives).

I will stick with my (after a little RMA) fast 1.5GB Seagate drives thanks :)

Don't be too quick to ridicule, because whilst Stiggie may have been unaware of the non-linear scaling of bare drive prices with capacity, there is still something a bit dubious about the 2TB pricing here...

A quick shufti on Dabs shows the difference in price between the bare 1TB and 2TB greenpower drives is 150 quid, yet wrap them both in a MyBook enclosure (and based on the specs on the WD site, it looks like the enclosures are identical for both the 1 and 2TB editions) and suddenly the difference goes up to 200 quid. If it weren't for that extra 50 quid, it WOULD then be cheaper to buy 1x2TB MyBook as opposed to 2x1TB ones.

It's top of the line, and it's the only one out there. It could easily have been £500, or £1000. Why all whiny? Maybe you should send an email to WD crying to give you one for free, because, you know, their business practices are too tough on you. Hilarious, 2 times 1 is 2 LOL.

I owned one of the 1TB MyBook Worlds a while back. Failed after a month just like the rest of them. Do a Google search and you'll see how many complaints are out there. The case design paid no attention to cooling needs, as it had one tiny 1" fan in the back. Even though it advertises Gigabit Ethernet interface, the processing hardware is so shoddy it literally takes hours to copy a few GB of data.

Umm, yes, 5400/7200 IF you but the greenpower. You are aware that they make other drives too.

Nice that you think a harddrive that is failing on a massive scale (and yours is currently being RMA'd like everyone else) is better than one built specifically to conserve power at the cost of a little speed. But WD still makes standard 7200RPM drives, and they don't blow up as much as the seagates.

As for the price, yes it's cheaper to buy 2 x 1TB, but then you have 2 externals you have to deal with instead of one. The price will go down, but in my experience, people will buy the more expensive drives just to avoid the hassle of having 2.

The real problem that has still not been addressed with these NAS drives (with most brands) is that despite the fact that they have gigabit ethernet connections on them they still transfer at slower than USB speeds, even when only one computer is using them...
Based on some reviews I've seen of the internal drives, they are actually quite fast even though they are green power drives. There is more to drive performance than spindle speeds...

I personally can't wait to get my hands on one of these WD 2TB internal drives to stick into my Antec external SATA caddy. I am quickly running out of space in my computer in not just hard drive capacity, but also in terms of SATA ports and hard drive bays. Being able to swap out a couple of smaller sized drives for a single drive that is double the capacity is often worth paying extra for. The same could be said for external drives as people are often limited in desk space, power sockets, USB/ESATA/ethernet ports and so on...

£170 or £370, wouldn't touch either with a bargepole after what their quality 320Gb & 500Gb units did to my data and the multiple RMAs I went through simply to get other units that soon failed (1 mos, 3 mos). Yet my cheap and nasty drive + Adaptec USB enclosure and another no-so-big-name solution continue to work flawlessly.