PC Drive Reaches 500GB

[icuucme]

Hitachi's new Deskstar 7K500 drive marks several milestones in the storage industry: It's the first desktop hard drive to reach 500GB and one of the first to use the speedy new SATA II interface. In terms of how it stores data, though, the Deskstar may be among the last of its kind, as drive manufacturers begin to approach the limits of how densely they can pack data using today's standard recording technology.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,120102,00.asp

[pogi_2nr]

Interesting article. I am not really a big fan of large hard drives, to me they just equate
to large data loss.

[blindz]

I have the same views pogi, I always hear of people saying that they loose a lot of important files cause their large hd died. but otherwise thats good, 500GB **whistles** nice

[dego_fix]

500 GB thats real nice, this should prove interesting.

[ProdMaster]

would be nicer if it was a thumb drive. :D

[Krems]

Interesting article. I am not really a big fan of large hard drives, to me they just equate
to large data loss.



i agree...and i also say blah to RAID :eusa_snoo

i'd rather have a 40 & an 80gb HD than a 120 :eusa_whis

[leoandru]

would be nicer if it was a thumb drive. :D

lol, a who can afford that boss? :icon_mrgr

[MaxFactor1]

Imagine this...whenever I do a fresh installation of windows, it takes approx 4 hours to resync the windows mirror for my two 200GB which has 110GB of data on it... now do the math with me... 500 divided by 110 (not the size but the amount of data already written) is basically 5 and 5 multiply by 4 is 20.... 20 hours to resync... I think I will stick to my 200's... :eusa_clap

[Greatis]

hmmmm the space is nice but I am scared of these big drives man. They tend to go easily. However what I found interesting was the perpendicular recording that Toshiba is about to pioneer. Is it as stable as longitudedinal recording, why not try optical storage.

[BlaqMale]

the only hing i'm excited about is the news that harddrives are going to come with a gig of flash memory and the hard drive only spinds up when the cache is filled. ideally i'ld love 200 gigs of flash memory, zero seek times

[megiddo]

i think these drives in a properly setup raid, would perform quite well (hardware raid, not software). once i can reduce data loss by raid, then it is viable to buy them, because sata and ide slots are limited

[Krems]

now what in the blue blazes would i be doing wid half a terabyte :eusa_shif

sen on the technology max was talking bout yah :icon_mrgr

[BlaqMale]

two of this drives in raid equals a terabyte, what Could i use that storage capacity for (legally)?

[digitalchef]

200gig is more than good enough for me. but for 500gigs this is what i'm thinking, rip all your dvds to your hard drive, all your games, keep all of my anime collection, and your entire music collection so i wouldn't have to go searching for another dvd or cd again.

however this will definately have to be in a raid setup cause after u transfer all those files it would be hell to transfer them again. but i like the idea of not looking for media for this and media for that.

[megiddo]

two of this drives in raid equals a terabyte, what Could i use that storage capacity for (legally)?
2 of the drives in raid is still 500gb. because u have the same info twice.

[digitalchef]

not quite megiddo. it depends on how you do the raid setup.

[jerry]

Now y are these crazy ppl stepping up the size, thats just more data loss. Here in JA where light always going away (happens to me almost evryday and mi nuh tief light!!!!) that HDD would crash immediately. I know ppl who cry when their 20Gig or 40Gig crash, now how would they feel if the 500Gb crash, dem prbly woulda get heart attack. How many ppl would buy this anyways? Just some ppl in the music industry and video editing. The average user doesn't need this. I'll just stick to my likkle 80Gig.

[BlaqMale]

@ jerry, currently 500gigs is plenty but i remember when i couldn't full a 20 gig, right now my 120 has 20 gigs free only because i've been doing some deleting

[digitalchef]

am i the only one that hasn't had a hard drive failed on me???

blaqmale is right, u don't need 500 now, but sooner or later ur gonna need it. think about it for a file server, that can come in really handy.