Biggest HD

I'm pretty sure terrabytes hdds should be out soon. Last year i heard they would be out in 2007.
Right now i think the biggest is around 750 gbs though. I may be wrong....
Right now it seems like the hdd inductsy is workign more on boosting speeds than increasing capacity as speed is always an issue but there isn't much that warrants a machine with like 2 terrabytes of hd space in a home computer.
 
ezefosure said:
Right now it seems like the hdd inductsy is workign more on boosting speeds than increasing capacity as speed is always an issue but there isn't much that warrants a machine with like 2 terrabytes of hd space in a home computer.
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Well if you were doing a lot of video editing it would be helpful wouldn't it?
 
There are 1TB harddrives on the market, but for the most part they aren't really worth spending as much as they cost, and would be better off with something like two 500gb drives in RAID 0.
 
ezefosure said:
I'm pretty sure terrabytes hdds should be out soon. Last year i heard they would be out in 2007.
Right now i think the biggest is around 750 gbs though. I may be wrong....
Right now it seems like the hdd inductsy is workign more on boosting speeds than increasing capacity as speed is always an issue but there isn't much that warrants a machine with like 2 terrabytes of hd space in a home computer.
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Maxtor is the one with a 750gb sata model out while WD and Seagate have their 500gb models available. But that was true when WD and Seagate originally worked on 13gb drives while Maxtor had a 16gb out. "piece of crap"! Gee? With two 500gb satas and two 250gb ide drives I'm getting close to the 2tb mark don't you think? :P

computermaineack said:
There are 1TB harddrives on the market, but for the most part they aren't really worth spending as much as they cost, and would be better off with something like two 500gb drives in RAID 0.
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Blast! I installed XP Pro onto one of the satas! I could have easily went with a sata array here with the two 500gb models. :( But then I wouldn't to have one set aside for backup only and tinker with Linux, Solaris, Windows 64bit versions, or ?
 
Their Hitachi.

# 1TB Internal Hard Disk Drive
# SATA II Interface
# 3.5" for Desktops
# 7200RPM Spindle Speed
# 32MB Buffer Cache
# 8.5ms Average Seek Time
# Brown Box (OEM)
 
I knew Maxtor's largest was the 750gb model they have out. I figured it would be either that or Toshiba that came topped Maxtor for size. Here's one article that announces Hitachi breaking the 1tb barrier seen at http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/hitachi-breaks-1tb-hard-drive-barrier-with-7k1000/

With a quick search you can others by PC World and others on that. But whoelse besides(you know) Dell and even Alienware are jumping on those as seen at http://hardware.earthweb.com/news/article.php/3665301
 
PC eye said:
I knew Maxtor's largest was the 750gb model they have out. I figured it would be either that or Toshiba that came topped Maxtor for size. Here's one article that announces Hitachi breaking the 1tb barrier seen at http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/hitachi-breaks-1tb-hard-drive-barrier-with-7k1000/

With a quick search you can others by PC World and others on that. But whoelse besides(you know) Dell and even Alienware are jumping on those as seen at http://hardware.earthweb.com/news/article.php/3665301
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Actually, Seagate is the one with the 750GB, and they were first.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148134
 
Eventually the prices will come down. Years back I paid some $200US for a 13gb drive. Now you can easily grab a 500gb sata for less then that! The big proce is always seen on the latest out. Once you sit back and watch that will drop in order to sell. That's the simple rule of economics for new hardwares including the latest and biggest drives.
 
The drawbacck with the Hitachi model is the 7,200rpm spindle speed. But if you were to ttake a 1tb drive and bring it upto 10,000rpm like a Raptor? would it fly apart or improve performance? The other question even with a 750gb or even 500gb sata at the present time is how to backup a drive there? 4.2gb on one data dvd doesn't cover much.
 
Spindle speed isn't the end all be all.

The lower data density of the higher speed 10k drives means that their speed declines as you increase the amount of data stored on the disk (not making this up) A 7200rpm disk is obviously slower as far as access time and small file reads, but will actually maintain it's speed better when working with large amounts of data, closer to the full capacity of the drive (you can look this up, really)

And i'll have to find this again, but the fastest drive on the horizon is actually a 7200rpm drive with a huge buffer to decrease bus consumption by transmission delay

disc speed is one factor that definitely does contribute to the speed of a disc, but it's honestly starting to sound like the old clock speed battle between AMD and INTEL, when all of the other factors that contribute to the overall performance of the unit were all but forgotten.

The performance of the drive is not 1-dimensional.

The higher disk speed of the raptors has it's disadvantages as well as it's merits.

And i should add, before i get my head chewed off, that i fully acknowledge that the raptor is the fastest hard drive you can buy right now. I'm just saying that it's entirely possible to make a 7200rpm drive that's just as fast in the future, by improving aspects BESIDES spindle speed, like the aforementioned buffer capacity.
 
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