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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."

8 of 383 comments (clear)

  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: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?

  3. 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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  4. 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

  5. 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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  6. 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.

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

    Are you thinking of the pedobyte?