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Ravynmagi  Title: Moderator
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Seagate ships the first 4TB hard drive |
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/storage/display/20110906223347_Seagate_Initiates_Shipments_of_4TB_Hard_Disk_Drives.html
Seagate is shipping the first 4TB hard drive. And like with the first 3TB drive, unfortunately it is only available as an external drive at first. But at $230 the price is still not too bad.
The drive includes four 1TB drive platters. And if you do decide to rip the thing open and put the internal drive inside your computer, you'll need a SATA controller capable of supporting 4TB drives (Jmicron JMB36x seem to work, some Intels don't).
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005IA843W
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Locuus  Posts: 124
Registered: 2003-3-13 22:55:35
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5TB or bust! 
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Ravynmagi Title: Moderator
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Think my 3TB drive just went bust. Been running a chkdsk for 24 hours straight now and it's still running. Ugh, only had it 2 months. Might be needing a 4TB drive soon.  |
Nakal  Title: Moderator
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You are just using it as an excuse! LOLHave you tried MHDD? http://hddguru.com/software/2005.10.02-MHDD/
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So they have single 1TB platter HDD, I'd like a single 1TB HDD at 7200 rpm and 32mb of cache
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Ravynmagi Title: Moderator
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Rezist posted:
So they have single 1TB platter HDD, I'd like a single 1TB HDD at 7200 rpm and 32mb of cache
Just so happens Hitachi announced just that a couple days ago. From their statement, they are the first to release a single platter 1TB drive.
"The Deskstar 7K1000.D and the 5K1000.B both use the new 1TB platters. Both lines ship with a 32MB buffer, varying only in their rotational speed. The 7K1000 spins at 7200RPM while the 5K1000 implements Hitachi GST's CoolSpin technology."
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4739/hitachi-ships-first-35-hdd-with-1tb-platters
Don't see any retailers with it yet, but Hitachi says it's shipping now. So should be available very soon.
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Lonestar_1 Posts: 259
Registered: 2004-8-26 08:40:28
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Nice. I will need new drive soon, kinda running out of room  .
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Date Posted:
9/7/11 11:05am
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Ravynmagi posted:
Rezist posted:
So they have single 1TB platter HDD, I'd like a single 1TB HDD at 7200 rpm and 32mb of cache
Just so happens Hitachi announced just that a couple days ago. From their statement, they are the first to release a single platter 1TB drive.
"The Deskstar 7K1000.D and the 5K1000.B both use the new 1TB platters. Both lines ship with a 32MB buffer, varying only in their rotational speed. The 7K1000 spins at 7200RPM while the 5K1000 implements Hitachi GST's CoolSpin technology."
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4739/hitachi-ships-first-35-hdd-with-1tb-platters
Don't see any retailers with it yet, but Hitachi says it's shipping now. So should be available very soon.
Too bad it's not samsung or WD releasing it, does Hitachi make reliable drives?
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Date Posted:
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Rezist posted:
does Hitachi make reliable drives?
Yes in my experiences. They made the IBM Deskstar line.
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Ravynmagi Title: Moderator
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I usually had the impression that Hitachi focused more on laptop hard drives than desktop. There platter density with laptop drives seems to always be very competitive, but they would lag behind with their desktop drives. Hitachi's first 1TB drive was a beastly 4 or 5 platter monster while Samsung was releasing a 3 platter drive 1TB drive.
So it kinda surprised me that they got a 1TB platter density for desktop drives and would be the first to release a single platter 1TB drive.
Western Digital bought Hitachi back in March though.
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