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Seagate Announces First 1.5TB Desktop Hard Drive
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."
Hard drives are getting bigger? Wow.. what news.. that hardly ever happens.
Seriously, I'd take half that storage if there was more assurance of my data integrity.
How does more assurance of your data integrity obviate the need for backups? In other words, how does your behavior change even with those assurances?
Losing an 80 GB HD nearly broke my heart, I can't imagine what losing 1.5 TB would do...
Yeah, it'd be nice not to have hard drive failures, but don't blame the drive manufacturers for your lack of backups. There is no data solution so good that it doesn't need redundancy in some manner.
Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.