Western Digital 2tb's available soon in SA

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Yep heading is a bit misleading. Apologies.

Apparently they will be hitting our shores in the next 2-3 months.

Indicative pricing is between R4000.00 to R4500.00 per drive making it R2.25 per gig at the R4500.00 price tag.

Personally - I will get me 2 on launch and then acquire the other 4 over time to complete my the upgrade for my little home server.

So will you buying the new 2TB once they launch ?
 
R4k - R4.5k sounds a bit steep. They're currently listed at R3500 (after 10% mark-up).
 
iDOL said:
Personally - I will get me 2 on launch and then acquire the other 4 over time to complete my the upgrade for my little home server.
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What? Are you planning on running a NetFlix service out of your home? I just looked across to my colleague, asked him what he would do with 2T's of storage and he was a bit dumbfounded.

I'm still having trouble filling up 500Gb...hopefully when HD content is freely available I might consider migrating.
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PostmanPot said:
R4k - R4.5k sounds a bit steep. They're currently listed at R3500 (after 10% mark-up).
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Through who ? please let me know - which distro ? see if a bud can organise for me.

I know the 1st indicative pricing is not always correct, but that's what they say, so we'll see when it gets here.

R/$ was 10.08 , then 9.88 and today 10.59 - so I will only be happy once they are here and the price is on the sticker on the hdd itself.

Until then all is just conjecture.
 
brixton tower said:
What? Are you planning on running a NetFlix service out of your home? I just looked across to my colleague, asked him what he would do with 2T's of storage and he was a bit dumbfounded.

I'm still having trouble filling up 500Gb...hopefully when HD content is freely available I might consider migrating.
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another forumite on here currently has about 13tb's , I had about 7.5tb's at one stage, sold them off to get me 1.5tb's, but with all the hassles with the 1.5tb's I never completed my build.

Held off until things improve and now that WD is bringing their 2tb's I am def getting me some of that.
 
mostly Full H.D content.

a 1TB drive gets filled in about 2months
 
brixton tower said:
iDOL said:
Personally - I will get me 2 on launch and then acquire the other 4 over time to complete my the upgrade for my little home server.
/QUOTE]

What? Are you planning on running a NetFlix service out of your home? I just looked across to my colleague, asked him what he would do with 2T's of storage and he was a bit dumbfounded.

I'm still having trouble filling up 500Gb...hopefully when HD content is freely available I might consider migrating.
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That is sad, I currently have about 8TB of content and like iDoL will be buying a couple 2TB drives once they are within a decent price mark.
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Yep, there is just no space, this is over one weekend what my Torrent box does :

Total Combined (Mb): 48599.77
% Cap Used: 2263.1%


Friday eve 21.30 until Sunday Afternoon 16.30
 
If you can buy 1TB at about R1700.00 - why not just just two of them? :/
 
Up until 2 years ago, I battled to fill up 80GB ;)

I'd always take the lowest new HDD size when buying a new PC, because I'd just never got close to filling it!
 
Dolby said:
If you can buy 1TB at about R1700.00 - why not just just two of them? :/
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My little NAS/Home server has only 6 Sata ports, no additional pci slots for expansion and I love the board.

So I need to get the largest available space to fit the 6 Sata ports.
 
Ryansta said:
Must be costing you a fortune to download all that
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ahh , but then there are friends we have that are kind and want stuff but have no conns.

Sadly, I do those type of excercises once every 2 weeks.

So that there is enough to go for all at once.
 
iDOL said:
another forumite on here currently has about 13tb's
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If you are talking about Neo_X, then I think it's actually closer to 20TB....and yes, he has everything. (have never found pr0n on his PC though....must be on an external :D )

Dolby said:
If you can buy 1TB at about R1700.00 - why not just just two of them? :/
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yeah - i'd do that too, especially if you can get them for like R1200 ! (like me)
 
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