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Large capacity har drives?

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brashquido

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Hi All,

Was wondering if anyone had heard any news on IDE hard drives of 180GB or larger being released in the near future? 🙂
 
I heard some where where they cant get over 120 for the ultra ata drives becuase of size restraints..
 
The ATA spec only goes up to ~127G, to get around this they amended the spec. But since no older ATA controllers support the new spec you need a new controller, most ATA/133 drives >127G come with a controller with support for the larger drives.
 
When do you surmise ATA drive capacity will reach 1TB? Is there a law, similar to Moore's law, for drive capacity (aureal density?)?
 
The limit up until now was 137GB. They got around this by using a 48-bit address bus, which is able to address a HUGE 144PB!!!

Have a look at http://www.maxtor.com/Maxtorhome.htm as thy're the only ones with a hard drive released on the new ATA-133 technology as far as I know with the DiamondMax D540X at 160GB.
 
Can't wait for Serial drives

Instead of 2 drives per chain you now have 1 drive per chain and twice as many connectors, yea that's a step forward...
 


<< Can't wait for Serial drives

Instead of 2 drives per chain you now have 1 drive per chain and twice as many connectors, yea that's a step forward... >>

True, but the cables of sATA are more than 6 times as small as the average ultra ATA cable 😉

Just think about the improvement in airflow in the case 🙂
 
rue, but the cables of sATA are more than 6 times as small as the average ultra ATA cable 🙂

Just think about the improvement in airflow in the case 🙂

I have a full tower case with the hard drives on the very top, I need longer cables not shorter ones. Although since I'm running SCSI drives it doesn't matter =)
 


<< I have a full tower case with the hard drives on the very top, I need longer cables not shorter ones >>

sATA cables can be much longer than ultra ATA cables =)

Now, when are you going to drop that SCSI set up? 😉😛
 
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