Seagate 750 gb HD later this year

perplex said:
Are you guys blind? OCUK already has it in stock.
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I can assure you - they didn't have it in stock when I looked early on Friday. Besides... the OcUK price for this drive works out at £40 more (inc delivery) than I paid for mine.

As good as OcUK are, they can't always have the best prices on all their stock - so I shop around between them and two other well-known vendors. That said, OcUK get about 40% of my business :)
 
TheMadScot said:
I can assure you - they didn't have it in stock when I looked early on Friday. Besides... the OcUK price for this drive works out at £40 more (inc delivery) than I paid for mine.

As good as OcUK are, they can't always have the best prices on all their stock - so I shop around between them and two other well-known vendors. That said, OcUK get about 40% of my business :)
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Yeah, the forums are their best asset :D
 
There's also the problem, which hasn't yet been raised, which is that flash has a limited write cycle, which means that after a limited number of writes, it dies.

The problem with those 750gb ones, is what the **** do you do if the drive fails?
 
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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AFAIK Raptors are pretty much just the same as 10krpm scsi drives and there are already 300GB scsi drives.

The technology in IDE/SCSI disks is exactly the same i believe so theres no reason they cant bring out 750gb drives.

The issue is the tolerances as you bump up the platter speed and capacity, the drive has to be that much more accurate to pickup and write the data.
 
Phnom_Penh said:
The problem with those 750gb ones, is what the **** do you do if the drive fails?
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I hope I never need to find out the hard way ;)

My drive just arrived today and it's busy formatting away nicely - XP's Disk Management interface reports 698.64GB capacity and I'll be filling a good portion of it soon.

As regards potential drive failures; all of my critical data (photographs in RAW format, client-ready TIFF / JPG's and PSD files) are routinely backed up in duplicate to DVD. I'm investing in 750GB drives to act as in system storeage of the same data.

I shoot an average of 4GB of images (200 shots) at each concert I cover, and a wedding shoot would mean at least 8GB worth of shooting data. I think I'd have to work pretty hard to fill up a 750GB drive but it is within the realms of possibility - it would only require a library of some 36,000 shots in RAW format from my camera; that would be scratching the surface of what some press photographers I know turn in on a yearly basis :eek:
 
Unless I'm missing something here, don't Seagate offer a 5 year warranty on this drive?

5 years is a lot better than most HD manufacturers offer, including Western Digital.

Heck, in 5 years we might well see 2 or 3 TB drives with even better performance, such is progress.
 
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