Seagate Boosts Hard Drive Storage Capacity To 1.5 TB

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Scotts Valley (CA) - Seagate reclaims storage capacity leadership in the hard drive market with a 1.5 TB drive, which represents a stunning 50% improvement over the largest drives currently available on the market.

Seagate Boosts Hard Drive Storage Capacity To 1.5 TB : Read more

 

[Zorg]

I wonder how many of these will be DOA.

 

[velocityg4]

Why doesn't some manufacturer just release a full height 5.25" drive again. Then they could stuff a few terabytes in that puppy.

 

[nuk]

seagate so good.

 

[judgedredd]

[citation][nom]velocityg4[/nom]Why doesn't some manufacturer just release a full height 5.25" drive again. Then they could stuff a few terabytes in that puppy.[/citation]

If I did my math right they could get around 600 meg per platter...put 10 platters in the 5.25" full size drive and you could have roughly 6 terrabytes...before formatting of course. Seek times would blow but for secondary storage at 5400rpm it should not be to awful. Power consumption would be high and most likely run hot. I remember my old ST-4144r(I think that was the model) was a large, hot brick of storage loving(120 megs!...woohoo) back in the day.

 

[judgedredd]

600 gigs not megs per 5.25" platter...duh

 

[Snap80]

XCPUs did a review on this drive. Performance seems impressive:

http://www.xcpus.com/GetDoc.aspx?doc=73&page=1