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Waiting on a 1000GB hard drive. Any news?
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I'm in the market for a couple of those quick and quiet Western Digital 500GB drives. I'm running my Mac Pro on a RAID setup of a couple older 34GB raptors and they are just too loud for me, and small as well. I'm hoping these new drives will have near the same performance since they have newer tech and 16mb caches. The new drives are a bit over $200 a piece though, so I was hoping to save a bit of cash on them. If there's no news on a TB drive to be released soon then I guess I should just buy now since there'll probably be no price drops in the near future. I do find it quite strange that there aren't any TB drives yet. There's really no news on them?
There are a few for sale on newegg.com and other sites. For example here is the LaCie Big Disk Extreme with Triple Interface 1TB. Enjoy.
What price are you looking for? 400GB drives were recently on sale at Outpost for $90 (PATA) and $100 (SATA).
Does Western Digital make a smaller version of it's fantastic 500GB drive? I'm not sure of the model number but I know that it is the quietest drive on the market and is almost as fast as the Raptor drives. What I'm looking for is sound and speed, not size. These drives are to be combined in a RAID and used for OSX. I would prefer 2x250GB but I really like the sound/speed performance of the Western Digital 500GB drive so I'll be willing to pay more for them. If there is a comparable drive to this one with a smaller size please point me in the right direction as I will be purchasing it immediately.
Samsung Spinpoint drives are regarded as being some of the quietest. I have an 80Gb, but I think they go up to 320
Here you go:
http://www.hardmac.com/news/2006-09-14/#5914
It says:
Hitachi has achieved to significantly increase the data density of its new PRM disks (perpendicular recording). They plan to make 1TB 3.5'' disks available as early as the beginning of 2007. In 2009, disks of the same size will reportedly contain 2TB of data, while 400GB 2.5'' disks and 200GB 1.8'' ones will also be coming out.
Frederic
http://www.hardmac.com/news/2006-09-14/#5914
It says:
Hitachi has achieved to significantly increase the data density of its new PRM disks (perpendicular recording). They plan to make 1TB 3.5'' disks available as early as the beginning of 2007. In 2009, disks of the same size will reportedly contain 2TB of data, while 400GB 2.5'' disks and 200GB 1.8'' ones will also be coming out.
Frederic
There are a few for sale on newegg.com and other sites. For example here is the LaCie Big Disk Extreme with Triple Interface 1TB. Enjoy.
Those aren't 1TB drives though; just two 500GB ones in a RAID0 setup.
Who knew?
you can tell from the fact they are about twice the size of normal sized HDs.