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Review Date: 19 Mar 2009
Price when reviewed: £197
Buy it now for: £187
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Supplier: http://www.dabs.com
Reviewed By: Ben Pitt
Our Rating
This 2TB disk can store 12 days' worth of AVCHD video or four years of MP3s.
That may seem pointlessly huge, but we're sure some people will find a use for all that space. Surprisingly for such a cutting-edge product, it's competitively priced, at 11p per gigabyte.
As with Western Digital's 1TB Caviar Green, this model is designed for power conservation and solid performance rather than outright speed. Each disk's spin speed is set to between 5,400rpm and 7,200pm in order to optimise performance against efficiency. In our tests, this version performed much better than the 1TB Caviar Green and even outperformed the Caviar Black disks for reading files.
However, even though this disk is good value in terms of cost per gigabyte, you can buy two 1TB Samsung Spinpoint F1 DT drives for £51 less. As having two drives is also more flexible, that would be our choice.
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