New Hitachi HDD Could Lead to 4TB and 5TB

[exfileme]

Hitachi's new 2.5-inch HDD crams 500 GB onto one platter.

New Hitachi HDD Could Lead to 4TB and 5TB : Read more

 

[warezme]

yo drive is so fat, when it hauls ass..., it takes two trips

 

[dgingeri]

I want to get 8 of these 500GB laptop drives and RAID6 them together. That's a fast 3TB array. I'd love to have that for my main storage.

 

[apache_lives]

[citation][nom]dgingeri[/nom]I want to get 8 of these 500GB laptop drives and RAID6 them together. That's a fast 3TB array. I'd love to have that for my main storage.[/citation]

Ever heard of an SSD?

 

[nevertell]

A single SSD might even be faster, but if it brakes down, it's down. And how much would a 3 tb ssd cost anyway ?

 

[belardo]

Not as fast as SSD... but the amount of storage is a lot more. But 2.5
" drives are not made for massive RAID... 4 2TB drives would cost less and have better performance than these 2.5" drives with far more storage space.

 

[nforce4max]

4tb might last me a year tops before I am out of space again.

 

[retrig]

[citation][nom]dgingeri[/nom]I want to get 8 of these 500GB laptop drives and RAID6 them together. That's a fast 3TB array. I'd love to have that for my main storage.[/citation]
They're only 5400 RPM drives though.

 

[aaron88_7]

[citation][nom]apache_lives[/nom]Ever heard of an SSD?[/citation]
I don't even want to think about how much it would cost for that much storage in SSD form!

 

[Darkk]

Sorry I do not trust Hitachi drives even it was given to me for free. They may lead the way for new technologies but when it comes to relibablity I don't trust them.

Darkk

 

[joytech22]

[citation][nom]aaron88_7[/nom]I don't even want to think about how much it would cost for that much storage in SSD form![/citation]

I think 1TB alone cost's $3000 USD!

 

[jhansonxi]

There have been drives with up to 10 platters before. I had a pair in a RAID 1 array (IBM Ultrastar 36ZX). With 10 platters the heat and the 10TB of space would both be ridiculous.

 

[JOSHSKORN]

[citation][nom]aaron88_7[/nom]I don't even want to think about how much it would cost for that much storage in SSD form![/citation]
You could probably buy a Prius for the same price.

Really, I don't even want to think about Read/Write times on such a large drive. Heaven forbid I format the whole thing, I think my PSU would explode halfway through the process, which might take a week just for that.

 

[jadeite]

This is getting annoying. How about let's stop with the creative headlines? This announcement is about some dinky 2.5" drives a tenth that size so why is the headline something completely different? Besides, it is naive to perform a simple extrapolation of a 1 platter 2.5" drive to figure the capacity of a multi-platter 3.5". There are mechanical, chemical, electrical, cost, scheduling, and numerous other factors that impact the areal density you aren't considering at all. Please let the hard drive guys work out and at least preview their technology instead of headlining speculation.

 

[segio526]

[citation][nom]dgingeri[/nom]I want to get 8 of these 500GB laptop drives and RAID6 them together. That's a fast 3TB array. I'd love to have that for my main storage.[/citation]
Why RAID 6, you afraid you'll lose 2 at once? Do a RAID 5 and have 3.5TB

 

[deadly4u]

[citation][nom]apache_lives[/nom]Ever heard of an SSD?[/citation]

Ever heard of high capacity, affordable drives?

 

[dEAne]

High capacity, faster access, low profile, USB powered, reliable and affordable? - What else do we want?

Maybe it become a standard to put an OS and program files to a SSD and storage files to a HDD.

 

[segio526]

How about killing off BIOS so we can boot off of one of these...although, short stroking a 5TB drive sounds like it would work nicely. Give yourself 1TB and you might get close to SSD performance!

 

[LMF5000]

Ahh, I remember the days of Windows 95 when I used to run all my programs off a single 3GB hard drive and we did our homework using Encarta Encyclopedia instead of the internet

 

[fayzaan]

3gb was huge at the win95 times! I remember my epic Pentium 1 75mhz computer!!! such power! then afterwards I remember getting a custom built 700mhz Pentium 3 with MMX Technology!! yea!!! and then I got like some 1.6mhz or somethin and on Windows ME...BLEH!

 

[cookoy]

never tried Hitachi drives before. maybe i'll give the Travelstar a try for my next external backup drive.

 

[MaxTesla]

[citation][nom]dgingeri[/nom]I want to get 8 of these 500GB laptop drives and RAID6 them together. That's a fast 3TB array. I'd love to have that for my main storage.[/citation]

500MB * 8 = 4TB

But I could be wrong

[citation][nom]fayzaan[/nom]3gb was huge at the win95 times! I remember my epic Pentium 1 75mhz computer!!! such power! then afterwards I remember getting a custom built 700mhz Pentium 3 with MMX Technology!! yea!!! and then I got like some 1.6mhz or somethin and on Windows ME...BLEH![/citation]

Dont you mean 300mb, and I also used encarta but 3GB sound more like windows 98 or 2000

But I could be wrong

 

[aaron88_7]

[citation][nom]Darkk[/nom]Sorry I do not trust Hitachi drives even it was given to me for free. They may lead the way for new technologies but when it comes to relibablity I don't trust them.Darkk[/citation]
Drive failures are a way of life with spinning platter hard drives, just because you had a bad experience with one doesn't mean Hitachi has quality issues. Mine lasted 5 years and would still be going strong if I didn't need more space.

I don't know of any hard drive manufacturer that is immune from a hard drive failure, happens to the best of them, that's what RAID 1 is for.

 

[caparc]

[citation][nom]LMF5000[/nom]Ahh, I remember the days of Windows 95 when I used to run all my programs off a single 3GB hard drive and we did our homework using Encarta Encyclopedia instead of the internet[/citation]My first machine was an 8086 with two 360Kb floppies and a hercules monochrome monitor running DOS 3.1. It ran Deskview for multitasking spreadsheets, word processing, and Nutshell database and it was hooked to a wireless receiver for real time stock quoations. It was not networked to anything. It got my work done and ran Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Simulator, a wire frame flying sim. The clicker keyboard had no equal since that day. My first HD was 65 MB, divided into two logical drives, a vast warehouse of software and data, a dream come true.

 

[pocketdrummer]

[citation][nom]aaron88_7[/nom]Drive failures are a way of life with spinning platter hard drives, just because you had a bad experience with one doesn't mean Hitachi has quality issues. Mine lasted 5 years and would still be going strong if I didn't need more space.I don't know of any hard drive manufacturer that is immune from a hard drive failure, happens to the best of them, that's what RAID 1 is for.[/citation]

Several drive issues with one manufacturer does point to crap quality. I don't buy Hitachie or Maxtor drives because they aren't well made. You can only take so many DOA drives before you blacklist a company. I'm rockin' WD Blacks now, everything running just fine.