1TB drive introduced by Hitachi

[techs]

Originally posted by: theprodigalrebel
In related news, Seagate's CEO William Watkins is not happy that Hitachi now offers users 33% more HD porn on a single disk. []
I Love this guy!

But probably Watkin's most humorous comment came when asked about what were the ambitions of Seagate as a company. But quite frankly, his company is simply in business to sell storage solutions to customers and it's not exactly rocket science. "Let's face it, we're not changing the world. We're building a product that helps people buy more crap - and watch porn

Dude, you really need to re-think your promotional skillz.

 

[SuperNaruto]

Seagate says... ur not the only one..


http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=5582

 

[OSX]

Originally posted by: Nocturnal

Originally posted by: compuwiz1
It will be cool when you can buy 2 for $180 after MIR.

I envision this to be what, around December 2029?

Nope, the prices will still be high around Christmas.

 

[Never Knows Best]

What is even more amazing is that using certain molecules they could reduce the bit size from 50 electron grains to 1 grain for 1 bit with a storage capacity that would top out at 50 Tera bytes per square inch.

 

[RebateMonger]

Originally posted by: Never Knows Best
What is even more amazing is that using certain molecules they could reduce the bit size from 50 electron grains to 1 grain for 1 bit with a storage capacity that would top out at 50 Tera bytes per square inch.

Wow. With that much density, I'll be able to fit Ron Jeremy's entire life work onto my hard drive.

 

[WackyDan]

Originally posted by: Genx87

Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo

Originally posted by: Auric
Hey, consolidating drives uses less power and increasingly important to me takes less space to store 'em. They really should not be advertising these things as high-capacity floppies. Oh wait, they don't.

:thumbsup: Made me LOL.

Power requirements might not be bad, but pretty soon we are going to need water cooling for the hds, as I can't imagine the thing runs cool....

What does the density of the drive have to do with heat? The thing still spins at 7200 rpm.

/shrug

Is has 5 platters, and should run as hot as any other 5 platter drive. The rational for assuming it runs hot, is that the more platters, the more friction with the air inside the drive, creating more heat-which is true. Hence 2 platter drives of smaller capacity should run cooler... and higher rpm drives run hotter.

 

[Varun]

Have they ever changed from using the decimal system to measure hard drive sizes?

 

[Philippine Mango]

Originally posted by: Never Knows Best
What is even more amazing is that using certain molecules they could reduce the bit size from 50 electron grains to 1 grain for 1 bit with a storage capacity that would top out at 50 Tera bytes per square inch.

Half right, It's teraBITs per square inch, not tera BYTES.

8 BITS in a byte.

 

[Sunner]

The HP pretexting scandal:
When I ask if anyone really cared about this story outside of the media, Watkins shakes his head.
"Wall Street certainly didn't. I saw it and thought, it's good to know there's a board of directors more dysfunctional than mine."

Haha, pure hilarity

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Varun
Have they ever changed from using the decimal system to measure hard drive sizes?

Nope