Seagate To Introduce 1.5 Terabyte Desktop Hard Disk
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In August, Seagate will introduce the worlds first 1.5 Terabyte desktop hard disk and also a Half-Terbyte hard disk for the laptop PC. Seagate also states that these monster drives will be shock resistant and withstand the normal wear and tear of daily use.
Every time a bigger hard disk hits the market, my first thoughts were the days when drives in the MB size were considered big. When paying $1 per MB was the norm. According to the press release from Seagate it states:
The debut of the Barracuda® 7200.11 1.5TB hard drive, the eleventh generation of Seagate’s flagship drive for desktop PCs, marks the single largest capacity hard drive jump in the more than half-century history of hard drives – a half-terabyte increase from the previous highest capacity of 1TB, thanks to the capacity-boosting power of perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology.
The Barracuda 7200.11 hard drive combines proven PMR technology, components and expert manufacturing to provide 1.5TB of reliable storage for mainstream desktop computers, workstations, desktop RAID, gaming and high-end PCs, and USB/FireWire/eSATA external storage.
Seagate’s new 2.5-inch half-terabyte 5400- and 7200-rpm drives – Momentus® 5400.6 and Momentus 7200.4 – deliver the best combination of capacity, mobility and durability for mainstream and high-performance notebook computers, external storage solutions, PCs and industrial applications requiring small form factor.
Highlighting the global growth of digital content, Seagate expects to ship its two billionth hard drive within the next five years. Earlier this year Seagate shipped its one billionth hard drive since the company’s inception nearly 30 years ago.
What can one say. Huge new drives are nothing new. Hard disk technology in the SSD is the next step forward.
Comments welcome.
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Ryan
July 11th, 2008
at 4:52am
I just wonder what I’d even put on a disk that massive, Fedora takes like 3.5 GB fully installed, XFS is a very lean and mean filesystem that doesn’t waste any space hardly at all, the only thing I could think of would be that you no longer need to use any audio compression, you could dump days worth of videos on that.
Come to think of it, I’ve got my old computer with a 160 gig drive and I’m still happy with it, and I have my new computer with a 500 gig drive and that thing has been a bottomless pit.
Of course I think it should be a felony to use NTFS on a drive that size, could you imagine defragging that thing?
I have a cron job set up to run XFS_FSR once every month, by that time I’m sitting at about 7 or 8 tenths of a percent fragmented, in about 1 minute I’m back down to 2 tenths of a percent. (grin)
Martin Jones
July 11th, 2008
at 9:31pm
I’m interested in submitting articles and posts.
E2001
July 12th, 2008
at 4:08am
Games and/or Movies. I could fill one in about week, if I tried hard enough.