New Drives soon??

[MarkLuvsCS]

Has anyone seen any information about slightly larger capacity reg drives? I see breakthroughs of all the SSDs but haven't seen any word on platter densities. I am definitely hoping for a fatter storage drive.

Thanks for any info!

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

So, 2 TB ain't big enough for you?

 

[Elixer]

2 TB will be max for this year I bet...(though, I guess this could change) after that, who knows.

 

[spotdog]

SSD is different from original mechanical drives, there is no platter, instead,it use flash memory, so it is safer, faster and more expensive.
The max MBR drive is 2TB, if you want to get larger storage, config RAID and use GPT disk.

 

[Emulex]

give them a year or two to figure out the MBR issue - to catch up on quality

 

[fleshconsumed]

Traditional hard drives are somewhat at a standstill right now. 2TB is max. Samsung just recently released their 2TB eco-green drive. Good thing too because if I'll have to replace my RAID5, that's what I'm going to use.

 

[Russwinters]

2.5 will be out by april, but keep in mind any single disk above 2.0 does not work on MBR, so You cant use it as a windows XP boot disc.

 

[JSt0rm]

you guys dont remember the fat transitions? Guys stumped at home wondering why there drives were smaller then it says on the box hahahah. Hope fully I live through a couple more of those transitions

 

[taltamir]

2.5 will be out by april, but keep in mind any single disk above 2.0 does not work on MBR, so You cant use it as a windows XP boot disc.

its total BS that windows still uses MBR... And windows was capable of reading GPT disks for a while, just not booting from them!
MS FTL.

But then again, don't use it as a boot drive... have a nas server, preferably with solaris and running ZFS with RAID1 arrays. For your main computer, use an SSD boot drive and a fast 1 or 2 platter (ex: 640GB WD) secondary drive for torrents and transitory storage (permanent storage all goes on the nas).

 

[Russwinters]

I agree, I think the high capacity storage drives should be used for just that...storage.

SSD For Boot, single/dual platter drive for in system storage and then offload everything to something with a good backup system