Maxtor Announces Half-Terrabyte Hard Drives

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Maxtor has announced that it will begin shipping 500GB ATA/133 and Serial ATA hard drives in the third quarter of this year. The half-terabyte drives will spin at 7,200RPM and be available across Maxtor's QuickView, MaXLine, and DiamonMax lines. 300MB/sec transfer rates will be supported on the Serial ATA models, and since Maxtor's current generation of desktop drives already support Native Command Queuing, it seems likely that the new 500GB drives will as well.

There's no word yet on whether Maxtor's new 500GB drives will have a higher areal density than its latest DiamondMax 10, which sport 100GB platters. Hitachi Global Storage Technologies' 500GB DeskStar 7K500, which was rolled out at this year's Consumer Electronics Show, uses five 100GB platters.

View: Maxtor Press Announcement

News source: The Tech Report

What's New:

Copy video and locate the index synchronously, it speed up the copy 100% and save 50% copy time.

Faster read from the CD-ROM, speed up the convertation.

Give more prompts on the interface as follows:

Add "Notice" window between the copy and burn.
Add "Notice" window if you need to insert another disc after a disc burned.

Correct the displayed error of the subtitle and video when do "settings".

#1 wutang01 on 09 Jun 2005 - 10:51

Holly molly ... I gotta get one of these ...

So many developments ... I'm gonna postpone my AMD 64 computer setup next year ...

#2 DJ Prem on 09 Jun 2005 - 11:05

Done by Seagate yesterday (http://seagate.com/cda/newsinfo/newsroom/releases/article/0,,2733,00.html)

(1 reply) #3 indiehead on 09 Jun 2005 - 11:09

i'll wait for Western Digital to build one,

still having trouble filling my 120gb drive.

#3.1 CountStex on 09 Jun 2005 - 11:14

Then you ain;t tryin'

#4 christracy on 09 Jun 2005 - 11:25

mmmmmm more pr0n

(3 replies) #5 capeche on 09 Jun 2005 - 11:29

How much is that when it's actually formatted? 475GB?

#5.1 kronik on 09 Jun 2005 - 14:09

my thoughts exactly

#5.2 profets003 on 09 Jun 2005 - 14:35

its actually 465gigs ... and really 500,000,000,000 bytes, not 500 gigs. i still dont understand how they can label them this way still

#5.3 shao on 09 Jun 2005 - 15:28

indeed. a standard unit of measurement is a standard unit of measurement. I'm sure i could sell a 1TB drive, if i wanted. of course, don't forget to read the small print that says that 1GB = roughly rquatable to 512GB.

whilst i'm at it, i have a car for sale. Where 1car = 3wheels, and a chasis.

#6 Shannon on 09 Jun 2005 - 11:54

...

And here I am struggling to fill my 80GB.

#7 acnpt on 09 Jun 2005 - 12:34

Nice thing to store all my dvds on!

#8 metro on 09 Jun 2005 - 12:58

Sux that the bigger the HDD's get, the more filespace you lose on them due to actual binary size

#9 JZolloXP on 09 Jun 2005 - 13:15

Good lord, think of all the porn one could fit on it!

(1 reply) #10 tiwaris on 09 Jun 2005 - 13:15

I need faster hard drives (why don't they make scsi discs mainstream)

#10.1 necrosis on 09 Jun 2005 - 14:53

Try SATA tardo.

#11 Romanikan on 09 Jun 2005 - 13:17

man, even with quick format itll take a bit of time to format these.

#12 Unwonted on 09 Jun 2005 - 13:19

When a friend of mine got a 486 DX2/66MHz with a 500MB hard drive, we were stunned at its amazing capabilities and capacity. But that was 1993...

(1 reply) #13 TheSarge on 09 Jun 2005 - 13:38

Lete's see... Hmmm.... 8 SATA ports, 500GB/Drive... that's 4 Terabytes. I wonder if can fit the entire university library on that? Thay have quite the DVD collection.

#13.1 Help on 09 Jun 2005 - 22:32

If it's a small library then it might be enough.

#14 kronik on 09 Jun 2005 - 14:11

its better chache were after dammit

(6 replies) #15 C-Fu on 09 Jun 2005 - 14:29

500GB drive, probably 420GB formatted

Why can't they just use the formatted values dammit

#15.1 TheSarge on 09 Jun 2005 - 14:34

Depends what the file system will be, if it's got more than one partition one it, if it's a RAID volume, etc.

#15.2 Spitfire_x86 on 09 Jun 2005 - 20:15

QUOTE

500GB drive, probably 420GB formatted
Why can't they just use the formatted values dammit

Amen! These liars should be sued.

At best this so called 500 GB might be 465 GB

#15.3 mayamaniac on 09 Jun 2005 - 21:21

same goes for broadband speed, they should stop using bits and use bytes instead. Like a 4 megabit line sounds impressive, but it's only 512 kilobytes.

#15.4 8-n-1 on 09 Jun 2005 - 21:38

Amazing how people whine when they have to wait less than 2 seconds to download a MB of data...

#15.5 krono6 on 10 Jun 2005 - 22:41

2 Seconds?! BAH! Darn slow internet speeds

#15.6 rafter109 on 12 Jun 2005 - 06:33

has nothing to do with formatting or filesystem, thats all a bunch of bs, what you're referring to is slackspace, not space 'lost' due to calculation. A 500GB drive is labled on the assumption that 1GB=1000MB and 1MB=1000KB and so on, but due to the binary system, it is actually 1GB=1024MB and 1MB=1024KB, so a 500GB drive is actually roughly 465 GB after the converting math. This is also why a 1.44MB floppy actually only has 1.36MB of space to store files on

#16 JonathanVP on 10 Jun 2005 - 05:44

Kewl!!! Time to go shopping !!

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