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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."
Cool, my porn collection was already growing a bit large as it is.
Seriously though, how much is one of these things going to cost? And what benefit does it have for someone like me who is not an avid PC gamer (more of a console guy), but more of a multimedia buff? I have tons of multimedia, but not 1.5 TB worth.
I can't imagine even losing that much data if there's some kind of mechanical failure... I would rather have 500 gig disks with redundancy, myself.
There are mountains to cross for those that are willing.
When you start ripping your Blue-Ray HD Movies to store on a disk-less HDD share (at about 25GB to 50GB a pop) and then you conveniently convert them into mountable ISO images, you will then know why you bought that 1.5TB HDD.
I have a buddy that does this and he uses a 1TB HDD to store the ripped & converted ISO HD movie images. He then mounts them over his wireless N network on his Multimedia PC attached to his living room's 60" HDTV or he mounts the images on his HD laptop anywhere he feels like round his home. Very cool, and he NEVER scratches or loses one of his Blue-Ray disks... (Thank You SlySoft and Elby)
(NOTE:I posted this comment earlier and it got buried as the parent was modded 0)
Gotta make room for the High Def porn!
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