Seagate first with 1.5TB hard drives

(2 replies) #1 Kupo-Cheer on 11 Jul 2008 - 15:30

I'll be waiting for the promised 5TB hard drives to be released and drop off a little in price.

#1.1 jafoman on 11 Jul 2008 - 17:53

(Kupo-Cheer said @ #1)

I'll be waiting for the promised 5TB hard drives to be released and drop off a little in price.

You'll be waiting another 3-4 years before that happens. The drives ship in 2010 (if we're lucky), and prices won't drop for a year or two. Long time to wait if you need drive space now or in the near future!

#1.2 Kupo-Cheer on 11 Jul 2008 - 18:15

(jafoman said @ #1.1)

(Kupo-Cheer said @ #1)

I'll be waiting for the promised 5TB hard drives to be released and drop off a little in price.

You'll be waiting another 3-4 years before that happens. The drives ship in 2010 (if we're lucky), and prices won't drop for a year or two. Long time to wait if you need drive space now or in the near future!

The thing is... I don't. I'm sure there are plenty of people who do, but what I posted was obviously talking about my own personal needs. Also, I'm sure the drives won't be *that* expensive upon release due to the already constantly dropping prices of hard drives now. 2010 isn't very far off at all...

(1 reply) #2 5c077 on 11 Jul 2008 - 15:55

Nice keep on releasing more stuff to drop the price of these... Can't wait to see 1TB near $100, then it would be worth it for me to keep all 720P/1080p movies I DL on my HD

#2.1 ThaCrip on 12 Jul 2008 - 04:15

"Can't wait to see 1TB near $100"

that about sums up what im waiting for

... cause in general i dont like paying more than roughly 100 dollars ish for a hard drive cause to much over that aint price goes high and you dont get alot for your money anymore.

cause i currently have 3 hdd's (250GB SATAII - 200GB IDE - 400GB SATAII) and once the 1TB get's cheap enough im going to pull out my 200GB IDE and use it as a external hard drive and put the 1TB SATAII in it's place.... cause i could have got 500GB hard drives etc 'now', but it aint that much more space and it will probably fill up quick that's why im just holding out for 1TB to get to about 100 dollars this way i get a massive spike in space

(1 reply) #3 ahhell on 11 Jul 2008 - 16:03

Uh...isn't 3Gb/s SATA II and not SATA I?

#3.1 Unplugged on 11 Jul 2008 - 16:18

Doesent matter anyway the transfer rate is 120Mbps which is less than both Sata I and II.

But yes it would be Sata II

(5 replies) #4 solardog on 11 Jul 2008 - 17:01

Instead of making these thing huger and huger, how about making them faster. Have we hit the limit of disk speed? Every other aspect of my computer is at the point of super computer status, but these hard drives make it like a Ferrari towing a Hummer up Mt. Everest.

#4.1 BigCheese on 11 Jul 2008 - 17:08

If you want faster hard drives, you have the option of a 10,000rpm WesternDigital VelociRaptor drive or a 10,000rpm/15,000rpm SCSI drive.

#4.2 SHoTTa35 on 11 Jul 2008 - 18:16

just so you know, bigger HDDs read data faster because of the density so therefore upgrading capacity also increases the speed.

a 100GB 7200RPM HDD may read 1MB per revolution but a 200GB 7200RPM drive might read the same amount of data or more even though it's spinning at the same speed. So if you have a 500GB and you upgrade to the 1.5TB then your system will still be faster.

#4.3 solardog on 11 Jul 2008 - 19:36

(BigCheese said @ #4.1)

If you want faster hard drives, you have the option of a 10,000rpm WesternDigital VelociRaptor drive or a 10,000rpm/15,000rpm SCSI drive.

(SHoTTa35 said @ #4.2)

just so you know, bigger HDDs read data faster because of the density so therefore upgrading capacity also increases the speed.

a 100GB 7200RPM HDD may read 1MB per revolution but a 200GB 7200RPM drive might read the same amount of data or more even though it's spinning at the same speed. So if you have a 500GB and you upgrade to the 1.5TB then your system will still be faster.

I hear ya, but Im wondering when will we get to the day that we dont see a loading bar when we transfer files to the desktop from an archive? Something like flash memory on a large and non-volitile scale...thats what Im asking I guess.

#4.4 mayamaniac on 11 Jul 2008 - 21:05

By then, the files you'll be transferring will be in the hundred gigabytes, if not terabytes, so you'll still see progress bars.

Besides, Hollywood needs the progress bars to simulate scenes where the spy is stealing data from the villain's computer, and the progress bar is slowly transferring while the villain is about to step in.

#4.5 solardog on 11 Jul 2008 - 21:23

(mayamaniac said @ #4.4)

By then, the files you'll be transferring will be in the hundred gigabytes, if not terabytes, so you'll still see progress bars.

HA! That makes sense.

(mayamaniac said @ #4.4)

Besides, Hollywood needs the progress bars to simulate scenes where the spy is stealing data from the villain's computer, and the progress bar is slowly transferring while the villain is about to step in.

That's true

(1 reply) #5 Lowdown on 11 Jul 2008 - 21:35

I hope Seagate has worked more on their boards for the 7200.11 series hard drives. I have a 750GB 7200.11 drive and I'm on my third drive since march of this year. I partly got the drive because it has 32MB of cache and the great reviews from hardware sites about the speed. Looking at Newegg though this particular drive has had a lot of issues and people have had to return them to get another. Its not that bad I guess because of the warranty but it is still a pain to send the drive in and wait for another one and making sure to plan ahead and keep good back-ups. Has anybody else here had issues with Seagate 7200.11 drives, either the 750GB or 1TB?

#5.1 Digitalfox on 11 Jul 2008 - 23:12

(Lowdown said @ #5)

I hope Seagate has worked more on their boards for the 7200.11 series hard drives. I have a 750GB 7200.11 drive and I'm on my third drive since march of this year. I partly got the drive because it has 32MB of cache and the great reviews from hardware sites about the speed. Looking at Newegg though this particular drive has had a lot of issues and people have had to return them to get another. Its not that bad I guess because of the warranty but it is still a pain to send the drive in and wait for another one and making sure to plan ahead and keep good back-ups. Has anybody else here had issues with Seagate 7200.11 drives, either the 750GB or 1TB?

I think Flash drives one day ( may take a lot of time ) will be a good replacement for traditional hard drives ( they just need to have more GB/TB space and better speed ), are a solution to have less mechanical problems..

I have lost in more than 15 years, 11 HDD ( I count them because of all the trouble they gave me.. ), all because of mechanical problems.. Some weren't important, others I had backups, but 2 or 3 my porn was gone

Everytime I hear a sound, like my pulse watch clock moving it's pointers but more loudly, my heart almost stops.. :

(1 reply) #6 RodDev on 12 Jul 2008 - 05:01

Man....I'm still waiting for IPOD, IPHONE and Memory Cards to go to the 1T sizes, hmmmm keep dreaming! lol

Wait I just remember, at least now I can swap my Hard Drive to 1.5T on my PS3....nice!!!! Oh it's a 2.5-inch SATA notebook harddisk only ouch!!! Going back to dream on....lol

#6.1 |Maxim| on 12 Jul 2008 - 09:26

Seagate is also releasing the 500gb 2.5" drive in August too.

(2 replies) #7 Magallanes on 12 Jul 2008 - 22:01

1.5TB can be soo much pron.

#7.1 mel00 on 12 Jul 2008 - 23:38

(Magallanes said @ #7)

1.5TB can be soo much pron.

It's funny you said that because I have a good friend he is in the army. Other day he told me most the guy in there trading porn left and right up to 60 to 100 gigs... To be honest why the fck collect so much porn? I won't believe it someone could full 1.5TB just in porn... unless is HD porn lol I mean I get them and get bore of them delete or dump the dvd etc..

#7.2 KHaKi- on 13 Jul 2008 - 19:41

(mel00 said @ #7.1)

(Magallanes said @ #7)

1.5TB can be soo much pron.

It's funny you said that because I have a good friend he is in the army. Other day he told me most the guy in there trading porn left and right up to 60 to 100 gigs... To be honest why the fck collect so much porn? I won't believe it someone could full 1.5TB just in porn... unless is HD porn lol I mean I get them and get bore of them delete or dump the dvd etc..

I used to have about 400GB before I met my fiance (mostly siterips through torrent sites, and none of those were in HD). I've heard of people having a TB of porn.

#8 Airlink on 13 Jul 2008 - 06:12

I just want fast 100 GB+ SSDs to be affordable sometime this decade. Is that too much to ask?

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