Hitachi Debuts 7,200 RPM 3TB HDD

[rpgplayer]

another thing is, HDD's don't even come close to pushing the limit of 3.0GB/s so there's no reason for 6.0GB/s

 

[wotan31]

[citation][nom]rpgplayer[/nom]not to mention even at 5400 rpm a 4 disk raid 0 array would still be faster than a single 7200 rpm drive[/citation]
And 4 times more likely to fail.

 

[wotan31]

[citation][nom]jacobdrj[/nom]Between SSD's, netflix, cloud computing, and usb sticks, I have almost no use for ultra-large HDDs.[/citation]
I have around 3.4 TB of data at home. I store it on 2x 2 TB drives. I have another 2x 2 TB drives to back them up to. I'm eagerly waiting for the 4 TB drives once they become available. I have almost no use for netflix, cloud computing, or silly USB devices.

 

[False_Dmitry_II]

[citation][nom]fizzicull_addr3ss_Xtenshun[/nom]How about: Come on Microsoft, a 32 bit Linux install(or a 32 bit Windows Server Data Center Edition install) can properly address 64 GB of ram because it has a proper PAE implentation, why do you force us to upgrade to 64 bit to use more ram on a standard Windows install?[/citation]

Well, if that doesn't make people switch so we can finally have 64-bit native programs ONLY. I don't know what will. This is one of the few things they can do directly to regular people to make them choose the newer one instead of sticking with 32-bit forever. So I'm totally cool with it.

 

[dEAne]

A 6 Gb/s SATA interface (I hope need this). It also features a 64 MB cache buffer, an idle power draw of 6.8W.

 

[eddieroolz]

God, 3TB...more storage than I know what to do with, though I'm sure this will change in the next few years 😀

 

[kuroneko007]

It's only around 150 Blu Rays. That isn't going to last that long in the HD era.

 

[shin0bi272]

This would go great in my raid5 array. currently have 3x1TB setup which gives me 2tb with redundancy. 3 or 4 of these would give me 6 or 9TB with redundancy... too bad I dont have the money for them nor the actual need for it yet (have just over 1tb of music on my raid).

 

[bildo123]

Five platters seems a little heavy to me.

 

[heffeque]

[citation][nom]LuckyDucky7[/nom]"Linux does not require an EFI BIOS."Come on, Microsoft. Windows 7 64-bit w/ SP1 should be booting from this drive on a BIOS computer.[/citation]
Macs got EFI for some time now so... nice!

 

[dalta centauri]

[citation][nom]wotan31[/nom]I have around 3.4 TB of data at home. I store it on 2x 2 TB drives. I have another 2x 2 TB drives to back them up to. I'm eagerly waiting for the 4 TB drives once they become available. I have almost no use for netflix, cloud computing, or silly USB devices.[/citation]
External Hard Drives are a need and want for alot of users with computers and/or laptops, as you can so easily share information between the two.

 

[fathermk]

[citation][nom]chickenhoagie[/nom]sheesh, you think Deskstar was bad(Which, yeah it was)..as an employee for a technology recycler, out of the thousands and thousands of harddrives that i see come through every day, nothing is more notorious than the Quantum fireball. Yeah, good luck finding one of those that works.[/citation]

I remember back in 1999/2000, my first IT job was for a school district. I must have been replacing 10+ of those a week, all summer long. Those puppies were what turned me off from quantum/maxtor and onto (which yes, is now seagate, I pray to god they don't start screwing up the designs too).

 

[tpi2007]

[citation][nom]chickenhoagie[/nom]sheesh, you think Deskstar was bad(Which, yeah it was)..as an employee for a technology recycler, out of the thousands and thousands of harddrives that i see come through every day, nothing is more notorious than the Quantum fireball. Yeah, good luck finding one of those that works.[/citation]

I still have one that works 😀 It's a 40GB 7200rpm from 2001. Has some bad sectors in it, but that was my fault. Otherwise it works fine. I also have a drive that looks exactly the same, same capacity and speed, with a Maxtor label, that one is from 2002 and is in even better shape!

Som if you would like one, you know where to get it LOL

 

[arfrxz]

I have had a terrible experience with my current high volume HDD...err no thanks Hitachi.

 

[Camikazi]

[citation][nom]chickenhoagie[/nom]sheesh, you think Deskstar was bad(Which, yeah it was)..as an employee for a technology recycler, out of the thousands and thousands of harddrives that i see come through every day, nothing is more notorious than the Quantum fireball. Yeah, good luck finding one of those that works.[/citation]
I had a 40GB Fireball until last year that still worked, then I dropped it 🙁