Seagate 750 gb HD later this year

Mr Bulbous

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And I thought I was doing well with a 250gb HD (along with a 120 gb and 2 x 80 gb drives) Cant be long before someone knocks out a 1 terabyte HD.

I guess this will help push down the prices of more reasonably sized drives though.

Wonder how much it will cost?

I wonder how far WD can push the Raptor technology capacity wise ... I was quite surprised when the 150 gb 16mb Raptor was released.
 
well there are already 1TB + external HDDs available, although your looking at a fair wad of cash for them.

good news that we're almost up to the magical 1TB of storage in a single drive for internal HDDs though... hopefully this will push the prices of smaller drives ( <=250GB) down a bit :)
 
nikebee said:
well there are already 1TB + external HDDs available, although your looking at a fair wad of cash for them.

good news that we're almost up to the magical 1TB of storage in a single drive for internal HDDs though... hopefully this will push the prices of smaller drives ( <=250GB) down a bit :)
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The TB+ external drives are JBOD or RAID. That is its more than one drive.
 
nikebee said:
really?
didn't realise this, care to explain a bit further?
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its basicly 2-3 drives in a external case chained together to give the impression that there is only 1 hdd when infact there raided externaly giveing over 1TB in space :P
 
It all depends on how much space they can get on a platter, I think I read that Seagate manages 188Gb per platter so four platters make 750Gb

It also means that in theory they can make a 840Gb harddisk as there have been harddisks with five platters made.

OT: The 1Tb external harddiks have two 500Gb drives in RAID/JBOD, not a single 1Tb drive.
 
Mr Bulbous said:
I wonder how far WD can push the Raptor technology capacity wise ... I was quite surprised when the 150 gb 16mb Raptor was released.
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There's potential to go a lot bigger and a lot quicker. Most of the major manufacturers have 15Krpm SCSI disks up to 136Gb and 10K rpm to 300Gb.
 
rpstewart said:
There's potential to go a lot bigger and a lot quicker. Most of the major manufacturers have 15Krpm SCSI disks up to 136Gb and 10K rpm to 300Gb.
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Yes, but what is needed is a redesign altogether, the basic idea of a spinning disks and a head has been around since the beginning.

A transfer rate of 70Mb/sec is very slow compared to the bandwith of a videocards memory at >40Gb/sec
 
Dutch Guy said:
Yes, but what is needed is a redesign altogether, the basic idea of a spinning disks and a head has been around since the beginning.

A transfer rate of 70Mb/sec is very slow compared to the bandwith of a videocards memory at >40Gb/sec
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Especially when memory cards are getting smaller, with bigger capacity and cheaper, these days you can get a 1Gb SD card for >£25... I doubt it'll be too long before we start to see proper solid state HDD's
 
The future will be usb stick style hard drives - no moving parts, no noise, but there is along way yet before even a usb stick the size of a hd can store 500gb on it
 
Looks like I've made a good investment then - just under £320 including delivery & VAT (and a 50cm S-ATA cable too).

It's frightening how quickly I've filled a 400GB drive with files from my cameras :eek:
 
Soul Rider said:
IMHO there are 2 weak links in the PC Chain - and they are both disk drives - The FDD and the HDD.

When these get transformed into next generation technologies, then PC's will really speed up!!
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The floppy is pretty much dead, no system builders supply them anymore, and with the ability of modern systems to boot from usb sticks, theres no need for them.

I still remember 8" floppy disks, and systems supplied with two 5.25" drives if it was high spec. Those were the days:p
 
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