30GB hard drive on a platter Whoooooooo Hooooooo

[bonkers325]

Western Digital has introduced the industry's first hard drive that offers 30GB of capacity on a single platter, which translates into two words that consumers love to hear: bigger and cheaper.

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30gig platters now yes baby more space and speed 🙂

30gig retails for $119 baby thats $119 🙂

 

[Biggs]

I believe the new IBM has also 30GB per platter.

 

[bonkers325]

wrong 60gxp is 20gig platter

75gxp is 15gig platter

 

[SendTrash]

Yes! Cheaper and Bigger..... I love the compuer world.

 

[bonkers325]

yes more storage space for garbage downloads

 

[Gunbuster]

No 3 platter 90 gig 🙁

 

[Dug]

Now they just need to get the access speed down.

 

[Sunner]

Too bad is made by WD, hopefully Maxtor or IBM will come out with one soon 🙁

A 10k RPM 30 GB/Platter GXP drive would be nice 🙂

 

[madthumbs]

I thought we determined that some WD's are made by IBM?

 

[JackBurton]

Ok, what is up with the 30GB per platter and only having two platters?! When the hell am I going to get a 100GB+ HD?!

 

[LXi]

<<I thought we determined that some WD's are made by IBM?>>

The alliance was over almost 2 years ago...


<<Ok, what is up with the 30GB per platter and only having two platters?! When the hell am I going to get a 100GB+ HD?!>>

Because they're cowards. Watch Maxtor make a 4 platter 120GB drive.

 

[apoppin]

Well, WD is evidently behind the other manufacturers who will be introducing 40GB per platter this Spring.

And the 30GB platter HDs from WD only come at 5400 RPM. (According to this article)

 

[sharkeeper]

With these large areal densities, it would be nice to see them use two platters and two independant controllers/actuators. Imagine having a 60 GB disk with a pair of 30 GB platters striped! Internal striping would be cool. Also have a firmware that lets you change it to 30 GB (mirrored).

Talk about confusion! Drives would be sold as 30/60.

Cheers!

 

[Edski]

Try 40Gb platter, it should be available by the end of Q3 from Maxtor.

 

[bonkers325]

ibm needs to take action to keep ahead 😉

 

[LXi]

IBM is rarely ahead of the density game anyway.

 

[bonkers325]

how so lxi

 

[LXi]

Give you a classic example, while Maxtor, Seagate and the others had 10Gig platters, they were stuck at 6.8Gig for quite a few months. Then they announced 75GXP which had the largest areal density back then, only a couple days later Maxtor announced 20Gig platter drive. And now, the 7200rpm 20Gig class, with Maxtor, Quantum, Seagate, and WD all arrived, some for instance for months already, IBM 60GXP is nowhere to be seen. WD now has 30GB, Maxtor will soon have 30GB or even 40GB, IBM is still stuck at 15/20.