Seagate Reveals HDD With 1 TB Platters

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[citation][nom]schmich[/nom]Is the second side of the last platter not properly made? If not, it seems quite the waste.[/citation]

then how about you do a quick explination instead of being facetious.
 
[citation][nom]weatherdude[/nom]I think I remember reading something about BIOS having a 2 TB limitation. That means to use larger disk you need UEFI.[/citation]
Kind of. Usually you can solve it by loading up a new BIOS revision or getting a 3rd party SATA controller.
However, sometimes you get a situation when a system can run drives larger than 2.2 TB thanks to the operating system, they just can't boot to drives larger than 2.2 TB, since the limitation comes in with the MBR.

But yes, EFI has supported more than 2 TB for a long time now (up to 9.4 ZB I think). Why the market has not gone to EFI yet (except Apple, they went to EFI a LONG time ago) is beyond me, I see absolutely no reason why we should still have BIOS around.

Actually I take that back. The reason why the market has not gone to EFI yet is because Windows XP and 32-bit versions of Windows Vista/7 are still heavily used, which do not have support for EFI. And so I will have to patiently wait for Windows XP to die, or until motherboard manufactures start releasing boards with EFI on them.

BUT, this still doesn't explain why enthusiast motherboards don't have EFI on them. I think it is safe to say that the vast majority of the enthusiast community use 64-bit Windows 7. There are a few EFI boards out there, but the selection is tiny.
 
I still have a 1Tb data drive I just don't store anywhere near enough to fill it I would suggest most ordinary people get a smaller drive 1 or 2Tb and invest in ssd.
 
[citation][nom]JohnnyLucky[/nom]I am constantly amazed that the srtorage capacity of hard drives. I have a difficult time imaging a home user, gamer, or enthusiast trying to fill a 3TB drive to capacity. Are individuals simply downloading everything in site simply because they can or is there some practical use for such enormous data capacity?[/citation]

With all the HD movies i've download, i have almost filled my 2TB hard drive. With some more movies and games, 3TB would not be too hard to fill.
 
I have 1 ssd as a systemdrive. Plus 5 ordinary discs in various sizes. In total just over 3 TB. My discs is constantly full. A coupel of these babes would help me alot. BD-25 and BD-50 torrents eats HDD's for breakfast. 2 Pairs in each RAID 0 config would be nice... :)
 


Seemed like a legitimate comment. I would think the best reason not to use the 4th surface is due to thickness constraints on the drive; you wouldn't need a head/actuator above that platter.
 
[citation][nom]JohnnyLucky[/nom]I am constantly amazed that the srtorage capacity of hard drives. I have a difficult time imaging a home user, gamer, or enthusiast trying to fill a 3TB drive to capacity. Are individuals simply downloading everything in site simply because they can or is there some practical use for such enormous data capacity?[/citation]
8TB total 6TB used here :) I record a lot of TV shows and have all my movies and CDs ripped to the drives (no I don't torrent or pirate them). The space fills up quickly if you use it right :)
 
Hey, that's more data they'll hold hostage when you buy their drives. I've RMA'd 3 drives and the other two I've had both have reallocated sectors, only few hundred hours into its life.
 
I'm hoping this translates into larger drives soon. I'd enjoy a 4 TB drive, personally. I've got 16 TB of files and I add .5 TB/month. That means buying a new 2 TB drive every 3 months. Gets even worse if you want to have data redundancy.

Personally, I'm pursuing a ZFS system with RAIDZ2 using groups of 8 drives (resulting in 75% of the total capacity being available for data storage). With 2 TB drives, that gives you 12 TB with one set of drives. With 3 TB drives that would go up to 18 TB, and with 4 TB drives that would go up to a cool 24 TB.

Do want.
 
movie backups.

for that alone I got 6 2TB drives full, I will need in the fure at least double that amount.

3TB are NOT so much, I like to know when a 5TB would hit the market.
 
Why SSD for the ordinary people? Do you really have to load up Word in
0.008 secs? The case with more space is that you end up not deleting stuff, if the drives where used only with important info than sure, people would need only 300-500GB or less. When you are presented with the opportunity i guarantee that you will pick it and fill that drive pretty fast.
 
[citation][nom]Twile[/nom]I'm hoping this translates into larger drives soon. I'd enjoy a 4 TB drive, personally. I've got 16 TB of files and I add .5 TB/month. That means buying a new 2 TB drive every 3 months. Gets even worse if you want to have data redundancy.Personally, I'm pursuing a ZFS system with RAIDZ2 using groups of 8 drives (resulting in 75% of the total capacity being available for data storage). With 2 TB drives, that gives you 12 TB with one set of drives. With 3 TB drives that would go up to 18 TB, and with 4 TB drives that would go up to a cool 24 TB.Do want.[/citation]

Hi dude,

Hmmm sounds like a real interesting project!!

Is that ZFS on a BSD, Linux or an OpenSolaris kernel? I am interested in how you find the performance and stability? I heard that on BSD the stability is a bit iffy still and I guess the Linux (Fuse) driver/plugin is still in it's infancy.

I shy away from RAID due to the risk of having 1 brick and creating N-1 bricks as a result (i.e. when RAID recovery fails). Even on a UPS (of which I use a ridiculously over-powered/high-end APC model) a drive which is powered is at risk of failure. Have you tried simulating failures? How quickly is the data migrated to a new drive? Do you have to use matched HD models in a set?

Ta, Bob



 
HDD/Media makers always boasts about how many movies or songs you can save, but for 99% of us, that will only happen through massive pirating. Shouldn't they frame the claims in another way that doesn't imply illegal activity?
 
[citation][nom]bin1127[/nom]HDD/Media makers always boasts about how many movies or songs you can save, but for 99% of us, that will only happen through massive pirating. Shouldn't they frame the claims in another way that doesn't imply illegal activity?[/citation]

Uhmmm... no
 
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