Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Maxtor Announces 80GB Platters

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the sure-we've-got-space-for-that dept.

mackstann writes "StorageReview has some info on Maxtor's new 80GB hard disk platters. The new drives based on the 80GB platters will come in capacities up to 160GB, with some having Serial ATA and/or 8MB caches. They are also resurrecting the (formerly Quantum) Fireball name, shortening their warranty (previously 3 years, now 1 year), and adding some slim (38% thinner) drives to their lineup." New products like this make me feel like I'm not keeping up fast enough. I bought a 100GB drive last spring and it's not even half full yet!

3 of 368 comments (clear)

  1. Dead storage by Loki_1929 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Maxtor already has a 160GB hard drive. The 8MB cache is a nice touch, but once you get to storage levels this high, it's usually dead storage anyway. What do I mean by that? I mean you're throwing a ton of stuff on there, not using it for your system drive (I hope).

    Personally, I'm up to 630GB and running a bit low on space (about 220GB free last I checked). Let me know when we get 1TB hard drives, then I'll jump up and down.

    --
    -- "Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."
  2. Nostalgia by renehollan · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Maybe it was just that the first computer that I ever had had only 500 megs of hard drive space

    Heh.

    The first hard drive I had, on loan, mind you, had 10 Megabytes of space. I was the size of a small beer fridge, weighed 300 pounds, dimmed the lights when it spun up (which took about a minute), sounded like a jet taking off, and cost about $10,000 (which is why I had it on loan).

    It sported TWO 5 megabyte platters: one fixed and one removable -- 14" diameter, IIRC. I remember that CDC Hawk well.

    It went well with the Alpha Micro computer, portable teletype, two terminals, and a 300 baud Smart Modem that also occupied my room.

    'Course, that was way back in 1982.

    --
    You could've hired me.
  3. Re:Thats funny... by AndyMan! · · Score: 4, Interesting
    I think the only use for big drives is for pirating and warezing.


    Must be nice.

    My laptop came with a 20 gig HD.

    Add XP, Office, Photoshop, Resin, SQLServer, token Oracle install, a few hundred MB databases, and a few of my favorite IDE's and guess what? I have 1.5 gigs free.

    No warez. No games. No .mp3's.

    I bought an external firewire disk JUST so I could have a half decent .mp3 collection.

    I remember the days when I thought my 80 MB disk was hot shit. The fact that it was running on my 386@25mhz is irreleavant.

    Times change. I wanna big disk.

    _Am