Hitachi announces 400GB 7200RPM ATA drive

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Pariah

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The announcements keep rolling out, and this one marks a return to 5 platter designs for ATA drives. This one appears to be nothing more than a 7K250 with a couple more platters. Considering the cost of the 7K250, this monster is will probably break the bank by ATA standards. Sure would be nice to have a drive this large though to replace a bunch of smaller capacity drives.

400GB hard drive makes Hitachi the capacity king
 
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InlineFive

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Originally posted by: lavaman
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3.5" isn't tiny. It's the standard desktop HDD size right now. Besides, I doubt they could cram 400GB into a 2.5" drive just yet.
 
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Originally posted by: PorBleemo
Originally posted by: lavaman
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3.5" isn't tiny. It's the standard desktop HDD size right now. Besides, I doubt they could cram 400GB into a 2.5" drive just yet.
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I believe he meant 400GB is tiny.
 
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Originally posted by: MonkeyDriveExpress
Originally posted by: PorBleemo
Originally posted by: lavaman
tiny
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3.5" isn't tiny. It's the standard desktop HDD size right now. Besides, I doubt they could cram 400GB into a 2.5" drive just yet.
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I believe he meant 400GB is tiny.
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Yes you're right. I was kidding though.
 
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Cool, anyone have any good links that describe what RAID is? I've also heard that raid 1 and 0 aren't real RAID levels? What are the major reputable companies that have made RAID Cards, whos hot and whos not?
 
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Originally posted by: GOSHARKS
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HGST seem to be making some top notch drives lately...
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they always have (save the 75gxp/60gxp fiasco)
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Every vendor has some flaky product now and then.... The problem with these was the mishandling of the issue.

IBM/Hitachi makes some great drives TODAY>
 
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With 80GB platter density and 7200rpm they should have nice seek and transfer rates as well.

5 Platters increases the risk of failure as opposed to a 1 or 2 platter HD though, correct? or is it only margainal risk?
 
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I remember a few months before I bought my first 75gb harddrive for $400. A person at a conference said they had a NLE system with 400gb of storage and the entire crowd gasped. But then she said that in the future everyone was going to have that much space and much more. The future is here.
 
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just think about video-editing and how ONE tiny 10mins 640x480 clip encoded losless brings it up to a ~5 gig file.....400Gig sounds almost 'reasonable'
 
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Pariah

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These drives appear to already be shipping. Someone at SR got a 16 drive SATA to FCA array of them. He says the sequential performance is the same as an identical configuration using 7K250's, but interestingly, the random perfomance is about 20% better. He doesn't know why for sure, but guesses the combination of new drives and controller may have properly operational TCQ.
 
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Isnt RAID5 , the same as 0 striping?? It just offers better data security???
 
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Originally posted by: caz67
Isnt RAID5 , the same as 0 striping?? It just offers better data security???
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raid 5 is stripping with parity. You gain performance in reads but loose some to writes becauses of the parity.
 
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It's always nice when technology advances, but most people can't make use of such space. People who are big into movies are about the only ones who can really take advantage of this. I have a few movies and a few more series of anime on my system as well as a couple thousand MP3s. I still have plenty of free space on my 120GB drive. Hey, at least it will push down the price of smaller drives. =)
 
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Strangely enough I want it, but I don't have any need for it. I probably use up about 100 GB total (with a lot of that backups) with no one drive more than 40GB.

Almost as much as the storage capacity, I'm impressed it's 7200 rpm. Having less platters would be nice, but one can dream.

400 GB, damn, but in about 2 years 1 terabyte should probably be around, no? What's the Moore's law for HD capacity.
 
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