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Some Hard Drive Nostalgia To Start Off the Year
ColdWetDog writes "It's the end of another calendar year and time for all sorts of retrospective pieces. Instead of going back to last year or even last decade, MacWorld has a quick slide show on the The Evolution of Hard Drives which more accurately would be described as 'A Dozen Pictures of Ancient Magnetic Storage Devices.' Still and all, it might be interesting to those young'uns who think that 10 Gigabytes is small."
3TB drives have become available over the last 1.5 years. That is a nice improvement over the previous max of 2TB.
Since the issue with drives that size isn't about production ability as much as it is about the computers' ability to handle them properly, this just isn't true.
Why bother selling something that will result in all the margins being eaten up by support calls, RMAs and constant bitching and complaining about something you have no control over?
as of recently. Bought a RAID setup with 1.5 TB drives about 1.5 years ago. The same drives are selling at the same retail for the same price last week. I think this part of our history in drives will be recognized as a major stall in product development, innovation and consumer needs.
It might just be because the dollar, euro, pound etc have tanked, making the drives appear to be the same price to you.
3TB drives exist, but unfortunately there's not a huge market for them. Hardly any computers out there are actually capable of booting from them, and many can't even access them at all due to driver issues.
Like many MacWorld articles, there's a story to go with the slideshow ...
http://www.macworld.com/article/156757/2010/12/computerhistorymuseum.html