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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. Re:How many movies, MP3s can one possibly use? by Sheetrock · · Score: 4, Insightful

    One potential non-infringing widespread use: this would be a reasonable size for a HDTV PVR unit.

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  2. Re:Well what an interesting article by dsginter · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So... anyone got anything interesting to say?

    Seriously... isn't this a wonderful industry?

    If you answered "no" to the above question, please exit stage left. Thanks for playing.

    I don't consider myself "old", but my first PC was an XT with *dual* 5.25" floppy drives (that required a soldering iron for overclocking when there was no such word as "overclocking"). My second PC was a 386SX with an 80 megabyte hard drive.

    As much as I knew it would happen (just looking at the graphs in Byte Magazine was enough to see that), it is still amazing to me. I'm just happy to be working in such a dynamic industry.

    Enough nostalgia for now...

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