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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. Rooms full of drives by Stanistani · · Score: 5, Interesting

    In the eighties, our raised floor had a TB of storage - 48 six-foot by 4-foot cabinets with the power, cooling, and connectivity that implies, as well as thousands of dollars in maintenance fees.

    Now I can hold a TB in one hand...

    I like this decade better.

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    1. 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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  2. 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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  3. Why not faster? by cablepokerface · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Does anyone know the reason why the speeds of these drives are rarely upgraded? I mean, IDE is just 7200, which it has been for years, S-ATA is 10.000 sometimes, but not really very much faster still.
    Is it technically difficult? Is it unnessecary?
    And now that I think about it, what is taking those solid state disks so long ?