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Conclusions
3TB of storage, it beggars belief that
in just over 2 years we have seen such
huge advancements and goes to show just
how much R & D is going on within the
cloisters of Western Digital's HQ. If
only just....we could....
It has to
be said that this drive has surpassed
its predecessor with exceptional flying
colours. The results shown above paint
a picture that saves a thousand words.
These alone stipulate on how fast the
drive is, we do not require
comparisons. However to jog those grey
cells into gear, if we take the 2TB
Caviar Green results only shown last
year using Sandra 2009 within the File
System test we saw 88.2MB/s v todays
145.36 MB/s on the 3TB Caviar Green and
within the Physical Disc test 83.08MB/s
v todays 102.49MB/s on the 3TB Caviar
Green. A substantial leap forward as
we stated. We also must remember that
this is the Caviar Green, therefore
behind the scenes the final tweaking of
the Blue, Black and Enterprise versions,
goodness knows how much improvements
will be seen. Though one can only
presume that they will be fast.
Already many OEMS
S.I.'s VAR's will be looking at their
storage boxes both external and
rackmounts for data centres and the
like. Costs within these enterprise
arenas are rising steeply and this is
one area many will be looking to cut
back upon but at the same time
increasing their storage capabilities.
With the reduction in power with much
larger storage capacities and faster
read/writes this is an attractive
spindle disc backed by Western Digitals
standard warranty. Taking to the
extreme a possible realistic example.
Supermicro's
SuperChassis 847E26-RJBOD1
has a possible maximum 45 x 3.5"
hot-swap drives density (24 at the
front and 21 within the rear)
in
one unit imagine 135 Terabytes of a
possible storage solution. Seriously
thinking now?
What of
the SoHo users, many must be thinking
WHOW. Just how much can be stored upon
this. From the official PR they say in
the region of up to 600,000 digital
photo's or, 750,000 MP3 songs or, 230
Hours of Digital Video or, 360 hours of
HD Video. That's a whole load of movie
and MP3 storage. Suddenly the digital
broadcast and surveillance individuals
are now paying great attention.
Availability and cost. On going to
print these exceptional bits of
monstrous drives should be hitting all
good e-tailers and suppliers. There
is an expectancy of a high demand and
understandably so as not only large in
capacity but very fast as we have
already seen. Cost. Now here is the
interesting part. MRSP for the Western
Digital Caviar Green 2.5 TB hard drive
is £155.00 and the 3 Terabyte hard
drive swings in at £195.00 (all prices
before shipping and taxes). However
on a swift look about we have seen the
Western Digital
Caviar Green 3 Terabyte variant at
£189.05p before shipping.
Therefore at this capacity - a bargain
to be had.
Western Digital have once more set the
gold standard on the future of mass
spindle disc storage, but what of
Seagate and their expected 3 Terabyte
disc. Still missing in action and
rumours surrounding Seagate just now
have us all wondering - what next, will
there be a truly open real rival to
Western Digital.
Overall this has been an interesting
piece and we have been amazed at just
how swift the new Caviar 3TB spindle
drive has performed. |
