Hitachi 400GB SATA

[Whizbang]

What do you get when you add two 80GB disks to a 250GB drive?  Tada!  The new Hitachi 7K400 (and $1.00 per GB) is the new king of big and speed, according to PCWorld tests.  Also, it reportedly excels at streaming video.  How would you like to have to format and defrag this dude?  I would plan that to take place during a vacation trip; er, on second thought I would be scared to death lightning would fry it while I was gone.  :P

[slaxorz]

Overnight. Or when your out doing some shopping with the misses. The new Hitachis are some mean machines i believe i mentioned there soon to be existance in another thread.  I cant wait to see them in some nice benchmarkings.

[Igloo]

:o yeah./... or during the day... running in background... it took me a week to do 120gb ....

:o

Igloo

[iansl]

:o

exactly my feeling.

Do it overnight.

Now put that into a media center and loadall of the Discovery Channel's best shows up. You'll still have room left over for nesorath...something like that...'s 16GB MP3 collection, plus  every app that plays MP3s, etc.

[Igloo]

and to load every o/s ever created!

:o

Igloo

[iansl]

Well, if the hard drive were clean it could happen, but you'd have to switch between x86 architecture (wintel\Linux) and PowerPC Architecture (OS X, MorphOS).

You'd like specs like this:

Athlon 64 3400+
2 GB DDR400
400GB HDD (Yeah, man)
Plextor 12x DVD Burner SATA
16x48x DVDROM
GeForce 6800 256 MB DDR2

Oh yeah, now that looks nice. :)

Plus gigabit, XP Pro and a few other things

[Igloo]

yeah :D not far off what my system will be in the end ::)


Igloo

[iansl]

And maybe laptops will ahve those kinds of specs around the release of Longhorn. I'm saying this because it seems that laptop hard drives are very limited versus desktop ones; 10KRPM 400GB vs. 7.2KRPM 80GB. It's still enough for a good amount of work, but don't expect to store all of the Jepardy (Jepordy?) semifinals and finals shows on it and still have enough room to put 6 months worth of photos, several dozen CDs' worth of MP3s, and a home movie or two. That's what 160GB, 250GB and 400GB HDDS are for. As well as Aberdeen or Apple terabyte-class NAS machines; boy, those guys could store weeks of uninterrupted TV...:) If a Media Center PC was attached.

[Nestor]

Even I couldn't find enough mp3's to fill up that much space... Looks like I got my work cut out for me.

[Chandler]

I reckon just over a week of continuous TV recording on that drive.  Or alternatively you could record every single channel from the Freeview muxs in the UK simultaneously for about 6 hours.

[Nestor]

You know, my friends and I used to joke about Terabyte HDDs, back when 90GB was like, "Whoa, you're cool! 90 Gigs!"

And we were like, "Come, on... We'll not see TB HDDs until like, I dunno, when we're 30."

Same thing with RAM. I remember saying "You know, you could have about... One and a half gigs of RAM in your machine."

(General laughter)

"Silly boy. What would you need 1.5 gigs of RAM for?"

"...anything you want?" I would respond nervously.

(More laughter)

"Yeah... One and a half Gigs of RAM would be cool. Never happen, though."

HA! I MOCK YOU ALL! I'M LAUGHING NOW!

[Chandler]

In 1997 we got a computer with a 1.2GB hard drive.  It thought, "How on Earth can I possibly fill this space up?".  Now, you can't even fit Windows XP in that amount of space, when you take into account the pagefile etc.

Last year I bought a 60GB drive to replace a 20GB thinking that would be more than enough, but I soon found myself buying a 120GB drive for video capture - and even that has to be frequently cleared out.  I currently have a total of 40+60+80+120GB across all PCs and even that isn't enough for video.  MCE machines will keep pushing the requirement for larger hard drives as more and more people get into digital video.

[Nestor]

As the multimedia avenue of PCs keeps changing and updating, It's harder and harder to just 'break even' so to speak, when dealing with specific issues. Ahhhhh. I remember the good old days, when switching audio/video formats was easy.

[Whizbang]

In 1997 we got a computer with a 1.2GB hard drive.  It thought, "How on Earth can I possibly fill this space up?".  

I remember hearing the CEO of Dell in 1999 talking about IBM's breakthrough in hard drive storage that made an 18gig HD possible.  I also laughed at the idea that such a drive was necessary.

[Nestor]

We couldn't possibly have a need for anything more than 400GB!

-Said by Nestorath69, recorded for history, by Poasters.

[iansl]

Well...then why is there 3.5TB NAS storage? ;)

[Nestor]

It's a myth. Like ESD.

[iansl]

Aberdeen and Apple sell 'em, as well as others I think...of course you're joking anyways

[Nestor]

no, no, ESD isn't a joke. It's a myth.

[iansl]

:/ I don't copy you...

[slaxorz]

And maybe laptops will ahve those kinds of specs around the release of Longhorn. I'm saying this because it seems that laptop hard drives are very limited versus desktop ones; 10KRPM 400GB vs. 7.2KRPM 80GB. It's still enough for a good amount of work, but don't expect to store all of the Jepardy (Jepordy?) semifinals and finals shows on it and still have enough room to put 6 months worth of photos, several dozen CDs' worth of MP3s, and a home movie or two. That's what 160GB, 250GB and 400GB HDDS are for. As well as Aberdeen or Apple terabyte-class NAS machines; boy, those guys could store weeks of uninterrupted TV...:) If a Media Center PC was attached.

Seagate has a 10000 rpm hardrive coming to the notebook world very shortly.  Its comes in 34GB sizes, and 73GB sizes.  If you need more space than that in a laptop you should just get an external drive anyways.

[iansl]

Nice to know about the new 10K drive. But there are people who want all of their space internally, so they can access it on their lap with no ugly cables everywhere...

[Igloo]

i dont know... i like trailg wires and stuff...


Igloo

[Carskick]

We couldn't possibly have a need for anything more than 400GB!

-Said by Nestorath69, recorded for history, by Poasters.

Well how are we going to run our virutal reality simulator/generators?

[iansl]

And what about storing all of your favorite shows, plus your MP3 collection, plus every OS under the sun, plus the Poasters database, plus all of the pictures I've taken, except in RAW, plus all of those home movies you wanted to keep, in DV format? ;) Sounds like...600 or 700GB at least to me?

[Buffalo2102]

I read an article in the Daily Telegraph on Saturday.  The article claimed that hard drive manufacturers will be able to make hard drives 1 inch in size with 4 terrabyte capacity as early as next year.  There was a quotation from a manufacturer (can't remember which one) saying that the drives wouldn't be commercially available until about 2010 but they would be about the same price as the hard drives of today.

I wonder how long it will take Microsoft to produce an OS that will take up most of that? ;D

Where will it all end? :-\

[Igloo]

terrabytes, and only an inch in size, sounds like the perfect drive for a quantex case, ;)

anyway, this is going mad, M$ will make bigger and more power full o/s, but will they REALLY be better?

Igloo

[Chandler]

Hitachi are already able to get 4GB in a 1-inch drive and this will be used in the new mini iPod (according to a report I read)

[query]

With the announcement of the 100G 2.5" notebook drive, which is now sampling to OEMs, and the 0.8" 4GByte micro-drive, Toshiba holds the crown for cramming the most data onto the smallest drives.

Since the micro-format drive is a two-horse race now (Hitachi vs. Toshiba) it'll be interesting to see if/when the other majors jump into the arena.

[iansl]

The big manufacturers already have some sweet technology in store, but it's too expensive and they don't want to flood the market with stuff for some odd reason. Doesn't the iPod mini already have a 1" 4GB drive in it?

Oh, and the thought of a 100GB drive in a notebook is nice. That way, 60GB drives will be cheaper. They're fairly small for my line of work (read "play"), but they're OK.