Availability of 300GB+ drives?

[obeseotron]

I'm looking at new hard drives and capacity is my biggest concern, but it will also be my boot drive so speed is important too. The 300GB Maxline III looks good as does the Hitachi 7k400, but they are nowhere to be found online. Any ideas as to how long until these or other high capacity, high performance 7200RPM SATA drives will be out?

 

[dheffer]

"By the end of this year" is all that I've heard.
I'd like to know the answer to this question myself.

 

[us3rnotfound]

wow just get a couple of 250 gb drives

 

[So]

There are 400GB drives out now, IIRC, but they are like $450 -- which is more than $1.125/gb, compare with the $0.43 you can get 160 gb drives on sale for at the moment. If you want speed, buy a Raptor for boot and a pair of 250's in raid for storage.

 

[dheffer]

i was talking about the maxtor 16mb cache 300gb sata drive which is substantially faster than any 250gb out there, which rivals the mighty raptor

happy birthday so
haha

 

[So]

:beer: Thanks!

I wasn't aware of this maxtor drive...I'll have to go google it (or check storagereview, of course). Sounds intersting.

 

[zephyrprime]

Shouldn't be too long. HD aren't paper launched as badly as some other products are.

 

[imported_nitrus]

Originally posted by: dheffer
i was talking about the maxtor 16mb cache 300gb sata drive which is substantially faster than any 250gb out there, which rivals the mighty raptor

happy birthday so
haha

dont forget that with the maxline III you "need" the intel ichr-6 which is only on socket 775 boards at the moment. plus it not available, and pricing is not yet determined. you are better off getting the 160's and waiting on the 300+. you can raid 2X160 for a total of 320gb for less then 200, you will still get "16mb" cache though without NCQ or paying more then a dollar per gigabyte.

 

[obeseotron]

why would a maxline III need a ichr6? for ncq i understand, but i don't see why an sata2 drive wouldn't work with a standard sata controller. You can plug an ata133 drive into an ata33 port and it will work, albiet at 33mb/s. wouldn't it work fine but without ncq?