1TB Hard drives?

[soccerballtux]

Prices on 4-500GB HDD's are coming down significantly...right now I can buy a 500GB HDD at newegg for $140.

So this is leading me to think that they're getting ready to ramp up storage capacity to what they've been telling us they'll be able to get with perpendicular recording tech-- 1TB.

Question is, when? Soon? Anybody know the HDD release timetables? I've been itching to upgrade my 3x160's but have committed to waiting until I can get a 1TB drive.

Thanks.

 

[SexyK]

Seagate

Hitachi

 

[SuperNaruto]

Since we're in q1 already.. prob anytime in q2 as the article suggested.. or after..

 

[blurredvision]

What a milestone for personal computers. Ten years ago I marvelled at the 1GB hard drive in the new computer my mom brought home. Not to mention the amazing 16MB of RAM 😀.

 

[SexyK]

Originally posted by: blurredvision
What a milestone for personal computers. Ten years ago I marvelled at the 1GB hard drive in the new computer my mom brought home. Not to mention the amazing 16MB of RAM 😀.

Pretty funny, now many hard drives have 16MB of RAM on board. Oh how times change.

 

[psteng19]

Originally posted by: blurredvision
What a milestone for personal computers. Ten years ago I marvelled at the 1GB hard drive in the new computer my mom brought home. Not to mention the amazing 16MB of RAM 😀.

Wasn't it closer to 15 years ago when 1GB drives came onto the market?

 

[Zepper]

I've heard March for the Hitachi 1TB drive.

.bh.

 

[blurredvision]

Originally posted by: psteng19

Originally posted by: blurredvision
What a milestone for personal computers. Ten years ago I marvelled at the 1GB hard drive in the new computer my mom brought home. Not to mention the amazing 16MB of RAM 😀.

Wasn't it closer to 15 years ago when 1GB drives came onto the market?

Eh, probably. Now that I think about it, I was a freshman in high school, so that was 12-13 years ago.

 

[stogez]

Last I read it was March for Hitachi and Seagate confirmed June for their 1TB drive.

 

[Looney]

For drives of that capacity, i would definitely go RAID1 or RAID5. There's no way in hell i'm going to lose 1TB of data... even if it's just porn, that's a damn lot of porn to lose.

 

[stogez]

Originally posted by: Looney
For drives of that capacity, i would definitely go RAID1 or RAID5. There's no way in hell i'm going to lose 1TB of data... even if it's just porn, that's a damn lot of porn to lose.

LOL

mmm 2TB mirrored stripe array 🙂