Two×terabytes

I have bought a high capacity Western Digital – My Book Premium Ⅱ with two harddrives of one terabyte storage capacity each. I am using RAID mirroring so effective storage capacity is reduced to one terabyte.

It is a good drive. I had my doubts, but it works perfectly under GNU/Linux. The only thing that does not work is configuring the RAID settings. This has to be done with Western Digital’s own proprietary tool under Windows XP or Vista.

The device purchase was justified by my increasing demand for storage and my ongoing storage crisis. (Refer to the last few blog posts about storage.) I probably will not have a need for one whole terabyte right away, but it will not be long before I will probably require yet another harddrive of similar capacity.

It was also surprisingly quiet too. I had expected it to be quick noisy, but it is very silent; except for the cooling fans going crazy for about three seconds after cold start up.

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