2TB laptop HD

[Brian Stirling]

Samsung has had there 2TB Spinpoint M9T out for half a year but it's still not available to the public -- what's the frickin deal? I currently have a 1TB HD for storage to go along with the 256GB SSD for boot and apps but I'm down to only about 40MB on my 1TB storage drive and I desperately need 1 2TB ASAP. FTR, I am a photographer and my D800E's eat up 50MB/image so I don't have room to add even a single picture.

Are there any other 9.5mm 2TB laptop drives available and if so where and how much?


Brian

 

[R0H1T]

Samsung has had there 2TB Spinpoint M9T out for half a year but it's still not available to the public -- what's the frickin deal? I currently have a 1TB HD for storage to go along with the 256GB SSD for boot and apps but I'm down to only about 40MB on my 1TB storage drive and I desperately need 1 2TB ASAP. FTR, I am a photographer and my D800E's eat up 50MB/image so I don't have room to add even a single picture.

Are there any other 9.5mm 2TB laptop drives available and if so where and how much?


Brian

You mean these :\

 

[Brian Stirling]

You mean these :\

I don't normally buy from Ebay but after reading the comment made by the seller I may just go ahead.

The odd thing is that nearly 6 months since these were announced and almost 5 months since they were available to big customers they still don't seem to be available in singles and places like Newegg etc...

But, thanks for the ebay link...


Brian

 

[razel]

They have been available to the mass market hidden in an external portable drive since about January. There is another thread on here where we detailed how to find it. It's the Seagate Backup Plus 2TB and 4TB. The 2TB was about $85 last month. Yes, you lose warranty removing it from the case.

 

[Brian Stirling]

They have been available to the mass market hidden in an external portable drive since about January. There is another thread on here where we detailed how to find it. It's the Seagate Backup Plus 2TB and 4TB. The 2TB was about $85 last month. Yes, you lose warranty removing it from the case.

I was aware that it had been bundled as an external backup drive but I thought I read that there were some physical differences in the connectors on it, that it wasn't a plug-and-play SATA drive.

Your price of $85 is a crap ton cheaper than I'd expect -- are you sure thats for the 2TB Spinpoint M9T drive?


Brian

 

[razel]

Find and read the thread.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

[Photographer . . . probably carries the laptop as companion to his digital SLR cameras . . . mmm-Kay . . .]

I suppose the question here is "what exactly are you storing on this single, all-in-one container for files?" Your entire library of photos? How could software otherwise take up a terabyte of storage on that laptop?

Why not simply carry external HDD USB boxes with the laptop? Or even external USB boxes fitted with SSDs? Maybe I misunderstood something here.

 

[PeeluckyDuckee]

There's a new Seagate portable 4TB 2.5" drive that's out for $300CDN, wonder if those are sporting two 2TB platters made by Samsung? I'm digging the 4TB size in such a small form factor, but wish the price was lower.

 

[jimhsu]

[Photographer . . . probably carries the laptop as companion to his digital SLR cameras . . . mmm-Kay . . .]

I suppose the question here is "what exactly are you storing on this single, all-in-one container for files?" Your entire library of photos? How could software otherwise take up a terabyte of storage on that laptop?

Why not simply carry external HDD USB boxes with the laptop? Or even external USB boxes fitted with SSDs? Maybe I misunderstood something here.

Assuming no USB 3.0, in which case the transfer rates on USB 2.0 make a compelling case for a large internal drive.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Assuming no USB 3.0, in which case the transfer rates on USB 2.0 make a compelling case for a large internal drive.

That might make, as you say, a compelling case. If USB2 seemed slow with 0.5TB volumes, it could be a lot worse.

Personally, if it were me (but it isn't), whatever laptop I had -- if current enough -- I'd drop a big SSD in there. But he explained it now that I review -- he's got a 256GB SSD for boot and programs.

Interesting problem. I might have had trouble believing someone would need more than 1TB for files -- even photographs. So . . . I'll sit down and shut up.

 

[R0H1T]

There's a new Seagate portable 4TB 2.5" drive that's out for $300CDN, wonder if those are sporting two 2TB platters made by Samsung? I'm digging the 4TB size in such a small form factor, but wish the price was lower.

AFAIK there aren't any 2TB per platter drives out there & not even the regular 3.5" based ones, so a 2TB 2.5" drive doesn't exist atm

 

[Brian Stirling]

[Photographer . . . probably carries the laptop as companion to his digital SLR cameras . . . mmm-Kay . . .]

I suppose the question here is "what exactly are you storing on this single, all-in-one container for files?" Your entire library of photos? How could software otherwise take up a terabyte of storage on that laptop?

Why not simply carry external HDD USB boxes with the laptop? Or even external USB boxes fitted with SSDs? Maybe I misunderstood something here.

I have and use several external HD's for backup but like to maintain as much of my archive of images on my laptop for quicker access. I have folders for each of my digital cameras going back to the late 90's and I have folders of scanned in slides going back much further. My current cameras, the Nikon D800E eats up about 50MB/pic in RAW.

When I upload a new set of images to my laptop I will periodically copy them to 3 other external HD's for redundancy. I use a windows utility to automatically duplicate the laptop HD to the external so that, when done. they are identical. It's not hard to find 2TB externals as it's not limited to 9.5mm.

I haven't ordered just yet but need to before going to Indy for the 500 as I anticipate eating up 50GB or more...


Brian

 

[razel]

For 24hours only, here's a 2TB Seagate Expansion portable for $100

http://promotions.newegg.com/NEemail/latest/index-landing.aspx

Hiding inside is a standard SATA 9.5mm 2.5" drive.