Hard Drive Platters

[icor1031]

Which hard drives have the most data per platter, now?
The F3 amazed me - 500gB on a single platter, about 110mB transfer rate

However, they're out of stock on Newegg and ZZF.

Thanks.

 

[Absolution75]

Off the top of my head:

Samsung F3/F2 have 500GB platters
Seagate 7200.12 have 500GB platters
Certain WD Drives do (they are bad about naming, some green drives do, some don't, same with the black drives)

You can check here for specifics (bottom)
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/storage/display/2tb-7200rpm_4.html#sect0

 

[Russwinters]

640GB per platter will hit by the end of this year, until then pretty much everyone is at 500GB per platter right now.

 

[icor1031]

640GB per platter will hit by the end of this year, until then pretty much everyone is at 500GB per platter right now.

So, where do I find the 500's with the highest data transfer rate?

The 7200.12's are decent.. The F3 (which is out of stock) is 7mB? higher though, and 1ms faster.

 

[Blain]

The new WD Black drives have 500GB platters.
Provantage is a really good vendor.