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Hitachi to Release Half TB Drive Soon
samdu writes "Hitachi has announced plans to release a 7200 RPM 3.5 inch 500 GB hard drive in the first quarter of this year." Maybe this one won't require a new motherboard to use. I think I've replaced more mobo's to handle larger drives than I have to support faster CPUs.
More porn, yay!
Hard drives get bigger and bigger, we might reach the 1TB limit one day ! More at 10.
Hello Usenet!
Will it be big enough to install Longhorn on?
Now, when am I going to see this capacity in my iPod? ...
One day Hitachi invented a 500 gigabyte drive. The RIAA said "The public is evil, that's 100,000 5 MB MP3s!" Then the MPAA cried "The public is evil, that's over seven hundred 700 MB xvid movies!" So their lobbyists went to Washington to get these high capacity drives made illegal. And their shareholders lived happily ever after.
The End
Trolling is a art,
Screw that, keep those system designers off my power supply, I want more power not less!!
> 48 six-foot by 4-foot cabinets
>Now I can hold a TB in one hand...
>I like this decade better.
Because you are now on steroids?
The surprise isn't how often we make bad choices; the surprise is how seldom they defeat us.
size doesn't matter.
I suppose someday, someone will be able to say "I downloaded the internet" and actually be right...
-ShelbyCobra
Living life in the right side of the s-plane
Just where to they squeeze these extra bits from on the same size platter?
It's actually a compression algorithm. You know that computers store information as a series of ones and zeroes, right? Well, they just added a driver that writes only the ones, not the zeroes, instantly doubling the storage space.
After that, it's been a matter of building the drives with smaller and smaller pencils to write those ones side-by-side. When hard disks were first introduced, they used a standard #2 pencil sharpened down to the eraser, but eventually they moved to mechanical pencils, then realized they could use the mechanical pencil lead without the pencil at all.
Today, special microscopic pencils can be built one molecule at a time. The "eraser threshold" (currently the smallest one is 0.00003 centimeters in diameter) is a key factor in manufacturing drives.
So... anyone got anything interesting to say?
My cat's breath smells like cat food. Well it does...
I'm sure "SlashdotMedia" will improve on all the wonders that Dice Holdings blessed us all with
In the eighties I could fit a wordprocessor onto a floppy.
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I hate it when evil corporations like Hitachi innovate and make my life better. Damn you Hitachi for making this hard drive in response to consumer demand for bigger, faster, better computers! You're nothing but evil oppressors who exploit the toils of the working man!
Wait, what? We hate corporations in general but we like it when they make cool products that we use and like? And we SUPPORT corporations by going out and buying their products?! Oh me oh my!
Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.
--Ronald Reagan
180K?!? Luxury!! We used to have to get out of the lake at three o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of hot gravel, go to work at the mill every day for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would beat us around the head and neck with a broken bottle, if we were LUCKY!
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So many people go buy the Maxtor junk and then wonder why the drive sounds like a jet engine a few months later.
32-bit operating systems can use 64-bit filesystems (e.g. XFS) which have no practical size limits.
Wait 10 years...
Check to see if 3ware has anything interesting before you buy. I've had excellent luck with their SATA stuff on both FreeBSD and Linux.