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Seagate Announces First 1.5TB Desktop Hard Drive

Posted by timothy on from the they-had-to-count-them-all- dept.

MojoKid writes "Seagate announced three new consumer-level hard drives today, which it claims are the 'industry's first 1.5-terabyte desktop and half-terabyte notebook hard drives.' The company claims that it is able to greatly increase the areal density of its drive substrates by utilizing perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology that is capable of delivering more than triple the storage density of traditional longitudinal recording. Seagate's latest desktop-class hard drive, the Barracuda 7200.11, will be available in a 1.5TB capacity starting in August. The 3.5-inch drive is made up of four 375GB platters and has a 7,200-rpm rotational speed."

42 of 383 comments (clear)

  1. that's a lot by jgarra23 · · Score: 4, Funny

    of pr0n!

    1. Re:that's a lot by Izabael_DaJinn · · Score: 5, Funny

      You guys mod this funny, but it's a little known fact that the terabyte was actually named after Tera Patrick in deference to her online body of work.

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    2. Re:that's a lot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      And what a body it was!

    3. Re:that's a lot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      Big deal, Traci Lords started making movies before her own parents were born.

    4. Re:that's a lot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      I have the same problem as you (no sense of humor). Usually I check if the comment was modded "funny" and it lets me know when to laugh. Laugh harder if it is at +5 funny. If the comment was posted recently and has not been moderated check again in a few minutes.

    5. Re:that's a lot by jaimz22 · · Score: 4, Funny

      SOOO was the petabyte named after Micheal Jackson?

    6. Re:that's a lot by MiniMike · · Score: 5, Funny

      Are you thinking of the pedobyte?

    7. Re:that's a lot by IdleTime · · Score: 3, Funny

      Surely, you meant:
      +1 Groin

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  2. great by Adult+film+producer · · Score: 4, Funny

    more storage for nerds to steal and archive the work I produced. Damn them.

    1. Re:great by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yeah. Bill Gates once said 500 GB of porn ought to be enough for anybody! Or something like that...

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    2. Re:great by rob1980 · · Score: 2, Funny

      He also said, "Who can afford to make porn for nothing? What adult film producer can put 3-man years into casting, filming the video, editing out the queefs and distribute for free?"

    3. Re:great by Mordok-DestroyerOfWo · · Score: 4, Funny

      I used to have this discussion a lot with my roomate. Do people really want hi-def porn? I thought it was the next inevitable development, but now that I think about it, I'm not sure if people want to see every wrinkle, mole, and cesarean scar. But I wouldn't really know...I only watch them for the articles.

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    4. Re:great by TheMiddleRoad · · Score: 4, Funny

      Blu-ray porn - $20 46" 1080p LCD TV - $1400 Highly detailed, oral lesbian closeup - priceless!

    5. Re:great by PopeRatzo · · Score: 3, Funny

      editing out the queefs

      I hope not. I make my living as a queef foley artist. I can also do the sound of someone stepping on a duck, but there's not much call for that.

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    6. Re:great by Zoomzabba · · Score: 1, Funny

      Blu-ray Japanese porn. I am scarred for life. On the plus side, I got 22.1 GB back when I deleted it.

    7. Re:great by Oktober+Sunset · · Score: 4, Funny

      Actually there is a lot of call for that, my latest film, 'Duck Minefield' featured 725 different duck trampling noises, however your rates are too high and we found it cheaper to pay someone to actually step on a duck several times.

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    8. Re:great by chrispugh · · Score: 4, Funny

      Sir, I have analysed your film, and must insist that you stop with these lies. There are not 725 different noises. There are merely 25 noises repeated 29 times!

      With lies such as these, I am only left to ask: Are you a politician?

    9. Re:great by Oktober+Sunset · · Score: 3, Funny

      Surely not! They assured me they stepped on that duck 725 times, no wonder they were so cheap. I should have hired PopeRatzo. Oh woah is me! My reputation is ruined, how will I ever get funding for my next film, 'Goose Bazooka' once this gets out?

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  3. Obligatory... by thatskinnyguy · · Score: 3, Funny

    1.5TB... Who will ever need more than that?

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    1. Re:Obligatory... by jbeaupre · · Score: 2, Funny

      It will take a while, but 1.5TB will seem like nothing. But no one will need more than 640TB. Ever.

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    2. Re:Obligatory... by Harmonious+Botch · · Score: 5, Funny

      The question is WHEN do Joe need that much space? Lets talk about this question in a couple of years...

      When Windows 7 comes out

    3. Re:Obligatory... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      I've still not sure what I'm going to do with 20 copies of "Enterprise" that I've been recording on the SciFi channel though.

      Delete them?

    4. Re:Obligatory... by Yvan256 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Ok, so they still have at least 5 years left.

    5. Re:Obligatory... by Ritz_Just_Ritz · · Score: 2, Funny

      You'll need at least that much when Emacs 22.2 is released. That's supposed to boot you right into the Matrix.

    6. Re:Obligatory... by maxume · · Score: 2, Funny

      Yes, obsessive video hoarders will use big hard drives just as you describe. Everybody else will pay Netflix or Comcast $20 a month for hassle free access to 10,000 times the content.

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    7. Re:Obligatory... by RulerOf · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yes, obsessive video hoarders will use big hard drives just as you describe. Everybody else will pay Netflix or Comcast $20 a month for hassle free access to 10,000 times the content.

      I went with the hard drives. I find the seek times on Netflix to be unacceptable.

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    8. Re:Obligatory... by Tetsujin · · Score: 2, Funny

      I've still not sure what I'm going to do with 20 copies of "Enterprise" that I've been recording on the SciFi channel though.

      Delete them?

      and for good measure permanently over-write the bits they were stored on with several hundred million repetitions of "NEVER AGAIN"...

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    9. Re:Obligatory... by EvilIdler · · Score: 4, Funny

      Haha - that's so true. ~/Pictures/JobSecurity/ is up to 2GB by now, and that's just the mobile phone snaps!

  4. Flash video by bigstrat2003 · · Score: 4, Funny

    For some reason, I can't stop thinking of this Flash cartoon I saw once about perpendicular hard drive recording, with cartoon dudes singing, "Get perpendicular! (Get perpendicular!)".

    ...I need a life.

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  5. Sounds killer! by DanWS6 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I can't wait to try out ReiserFS on it.

    1. Re:Sounds killer! by hansamurai · · Score: 3, Funny

      Too bad it would take first degree murder charges against it to actually find anything.

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    2. Re:Sounds killer! by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 5, Funny

      I hope you make backups. A corrputed 1.5 TB HDD with ReiserFS would be a bloody mess!

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    3. Re:Sounds killer! by bryce4president · · Score: 1, Funny

      I'm guessing your drive would end up dead, although recoverable.

    4. Re:Sounds killer! by Ritz_Just_Ritz · · Score: 3, Funny

      Let me see what I can dig up on that.

  6. Re:4 platters by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    >can someone please post the equation to calculate drive space?

    fake capacity * (1000/1024) ~= real capacity

  7. Re:What I really want... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    So you're saying it's not how big it is, but it's how long it will last?

  8. Re:What I really want... by Wooky_linuxer · · Score: 2, Funny

    How do you know it wasn't a female HDD? /*ducks*/

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  9. Re:What I really want... by Jherek+Carnelian · · Score: 3, Funny

    /.: the only place where one gets a broken heart from a hard drive instead of the opposite sex.

    Wait! There are places where a hard drive will get you someone of the opposite sex?

  10. Re:4 platters by AKAImBatman · · Score: 4, Funny

    You forgot the little javascript equivalent of sudo rm -rf /.

    No such thing exists. However, you can hose your browser nicely if you run the following script:

    WARNING! Do not run the following script!

    javascript:while(true)alert("Ha ha!");

    (*ahem* I told you not to run it! :-P)

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  11. Re:What I really want... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    And in true /. form, they have to pay for both

    Yeah, there's no f-ing way I'm logging in for that one.

  12. I'd love to turn you on by HTH+NE1 · · Score: 4, Funny

    from the they-had-to-count-them-all- dept.

    So now they know how many bits it takes to fill the Albert Hall?

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  13. Too risky by renegadesx · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nuke it from orbit... it's the only way to be sure

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