Earlier today, Western Digital announced two additions to their hard-drive range, including a 1 terabyte (1024 Gigabytes) 2.5" Laptop Hard-disk drive and a 750 GB 2.5" Laptop Hard-disk drive. Western digital was able to expand mobile hard disk space to 1 TB and 750 GB by "A slight increase in overall drive height has driven storage capacity for 2.5-inch form factor drives upwards to a realm once thought to be impossible. "
The hard disks are also claimed to be "whisper silent", and to run very quietly, even during heavy operations.
The product page also states that the laptop hard drive may not fit into all notebook computers as it is "12.5mm high", and to check your notebooks manual before purchasing a drive.
The Western Digital Scorpio Blue 1 TB and 750 GB SATA Hard Drives are available now from Western Digital's online store.
and 12.5 MM will fit in MANY laptops, some require a bit of modding, some dont.
Seagate....Come on.....I need your 5 year.
The thing is these are used for computers and EVERYTHING but hard drives is measured using 2 to some power. RAM and flash chips are two examples that don't "lie" about how much storage they have.
If disc manufacturers want to be picky they just have to say 1 tebi. Then maybe OS creators will follow.
I'm a computer engineer and i've yet to read a book that use kibi, mebi, ... Even the ones about the principles and design of operating systems.
I'm a computer engineer and i've yet to read a book that use kibi, mebi, ... Even the ones about the principles and design of operating systems.
Just because you are a Computer Engineer doesn't mean your knowledge is the be-all end-all. In fact, my 16 year old brother knows more about systems interactions than most certified engineers do.
IEC 80000-13 dictates that when dealing with data quantities one should use KiB, MiB, GiB and so on for 2^10, 2^20, 2^30 respectively. As of 2008, this is also required by NIST guidelines. I fully acknowledge the fact that the spindle drive manufacturers are using outdated standards but they are standards nonetheless. It would also be helpful if the OS Vendors updated their prefixes to the IEC 80000-13 standards to help ease the misunderstandings of the lay user.
I'm a computer engineer and i've yet to read a book that use kibi, mebi, ... Even the ones about the principles and design of operating systems.
Just because you are a Computer Engineer doesn't mean your knowledge is the be-all end-all. In fact, my 16 year old brother knows more about systems interactions than most certified engineers do.
IEC 80000-13 dictates that when dealing with data quantities one should use KiB, MiB, GiB and so on for 2^10, 2^20, 2^30 respectively. As of 2008, this is also required by NIST guidelines. I fully acknowledge the fact that the spindle drive manufacturers are using outdated standards but they are standards nonetheless. It would also be helpful if the OS Vendors updated their prefixes to the IEC 80000-13 standards to help ease the misunderstandings of the lay user.
Knowing things doesn't mean you are the best.
There's something called experience you get by getting older and work.
Disc manufacturers will keep using the decimal multiplier and prefix. Even if OS vendors start using the correct binary prefix (along with the already used binary multiplier) the average joe will still be confused by the use of the decimal multiplier by disc manufacturers.
Again i've yet to read a computer book using a decimal multiplier for memory. I did not read all of them but i read a couple of books a year to keep in touch with new technology.
I'm a computer engineer and i've yet to read a book that use kibi, mebi, ... Even the ones about the principles and design of operating systems.
Just because you are a Computer Engineer doesn't mean your knowledge is the be-all end-all. In fact, my 16 year old brother knows more about systems interactions than most certified engineers do.
IEC 80000-13 dictates that when dealing with data quantities one should use KiB, MiB, GiB and so on for 2^10, 2^20, 2^30 respectively. As of 2008, this is also required by NIST guidelines. I fully acknowledge the fact that the spindle drive manufacturers are using outdated standards but they are standards nonetheless. It would also be helpful if the OS Vendors updated their prefixes to the IEC 80000-13 standards to help ease the misunderstandings of the lay user.
Knowing things doesn't mean you are the best.
There's something called experience you get by getting older and work.
Disc manufacturers will keep using the decimal multiplier and prefix. Even if OS vendors start using the correct binary prefix (along with the already used binary multiplier) the average joe will still be confused by the use of the decimal multiplier by disc manufacturers.
Again i've yet to read a computer book using a decimal multiplier for memory. I did not read all of them but i read a couple of books a year to keep in touch with new technology.
Most technology authors fail to follow standards. Look at W3C vs real world web design.
I was just thinking this lol, wouldn't it be nice to be able to slap that in my 360
I prefer at the most drives of 500gb or less for mobility because people don't backup that often and having to backup 1TB (or even 750gb) of data won't make then start doing it.
It doesn't say, but it could be great if they start to use 7200rpm instead of 5400rpm on this new drives.
JunkMail, but that's the case with every HDD manufacturer. I believe that for SSD's they use a base-2 calculation, whereas with HDD's all manufacturers have always used a base-10 calculation for drive capacity. 1 TB (base-10) is actually roughly equal to 0.91 TB (base-2).
To everyone else, SI is a standard, live with it, it's Windows that reports the capacity wrong, tell Microsoft how you feel about it.
To everyone else, SI is a standard, live with it, it's Windows that reports the capacity wrong, tell Microsoft how you feel about it.
You obviously haven't read the earlier posts. Hard Drive manufacturers list in SI, under which 1TB = 1000000000000 Bytes. Microsoft lists capacity in JEDEC, under which 1TB = 1099511627776 Bytes. Neither listing is "wrong" as they are both widely accepted industry standards although it is confusing to the average end user because the prefixes are identical. It would be nice if Microsoft moved to IEC standards which would change the prefixes to KiB, MiB, GiB, TiB, etc. for 2 base calculations as the Linux kernel and many Linux apps have already done so.
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