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Hitachi to Release Half TB Drive Soon

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the thats-a-whole-lotta-nekkid dept.

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.

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  1. yay! by ikea5 · · Score: 4, Funny

    More porn, yay!

    1. Re:yay! by darc · · Score: 4, Funny

      Better yet, wait about a year, and you'll have a massively sized hard drive in the palm of your hand for iPorn. Hmm. On second thought, scratch that thought, it sounded alot worse than it was supposed to.

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    2. Re:yay! by tanguyr · · Score: 2, Funny

      Scratch which thought? The first thought? Or the second thought?

      i'm confused...

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  2. Tonight at 10 by Aliencow · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hard drives get bigger and bigger, we might reach the 1TB limit one day ! More at 10.

    1. Re:Tonight at 10 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      That's why I was smart. I partitioned my 200 GB drive into two 100GB drives and made it RAID1 so if one goes, I'm still all set.

    2. Re:Tonight at 10 by BobNET · · Score: 3, Funny
      That's why I was smart. I partitioned my 200 GB drive into two 100GB drives and made it RAID1 so if one goes, I'm still all set.

      That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. You should have partitioned it into three 66.6GB partitions and made it RAID 5, then it would be fast and fault tolerant.

  3. Yay....but by bwcarty · · Score: 4, Funny

    Will it be big enough to install Longhorn on?

  4. Inching up by QuietLagoon · · Score: 3, Funny
    It's nice to see hard drive capacity start to inch upwards once again. We were stuck in the 250-300GB range for too many years.

    Now, when am I going to see this capacity in my iPod? ...

  5. A Fairy Tale by grub · · Score: 5, Funny


    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

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  6. Re:Rooms full of drives by GoofyBoy · · Score: 5, Funny

    > 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?

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  7. Re:How many movies, MP3s can one possibly use? by ShelbyCobra · · Score: 2, Funny

    I suppose someday, someone will be able to say "I downloaded the internet" and actually be right...

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  8. Re:I continue to be amazed.... by mblase · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  9. Re:Well what an interesting article by Megaweapon · · Score: 2, Funny

    So... anyone got anything interesting to say?

    My cat's breath smells like cat food. Well it does...

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  10. Re:Rooms full of drives by HitchHik · · Score: 3, Funny

    In the eighties I could fit a wordprocessor onto a floppy.

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  11. Re:Well what an interesting article by MisterClever · · Score: 2, Funny
    Bah! My first computer used a cassette to load programs (at about 300 baud, I think). Eventually, we got a single floppy for it (single sided, what's that, 180K?)

    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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  12. Better than Maxtor by Macrat · · Score: 2, Funny

    So many people go buy the Maxtor junk and then wonder why the drive sounds like a jet engine a few months later.

  13. No Practical Size Limits? by nxtr · · Score: 2, Funny

    32-bit operating systems can use 64-bit filesystems (e.g. XFS) which have no practical size limits.

    Wait 10 years...