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Pretty impressive that it's on 4 platters.
Details...A short while ago, Seagate released world's first 3TB hard drive in the form of the FreeAgent GoFlex Desk. It wasn't so exciting as the drive wasn't intended to be available in the standalone internal form.
Today, Western Digital announced the availability its own 3TB and 2.5 TB internal hard drives, which are the latest in the WD Caviar Green family, that you can bring home and install into your computer. This is great news for those who want a second and large hard drive for their computer that run Windows 7 or Vista.
The timing of this is funny, given I'm awaiting delivery of a 2 TB external HD to add to my 1 TB.
I was considering a WD Green drive, but not anymore. Eight seconds until it parks the drive?? High load cycles? No thanks. Check out this thread from WD's forums.
I can't even fill up a 1.5 little own. . .
Hi there
Wasn't a 25 MB disk drive meant to be MORE than enough storage that ANYBODY could ever want or use. Was it IBM or even a well known Mr Gates who said this when PC's first came out into the general public domain.
Not sure who said this but in the early days of PC's this amount of storage was considered as almost unrealistically high.
I see now it won't be too long before a 1PB - 1 PETABYTE drive appears (1PB = 1000 TB or 1000 * 1000 GB).
Cheers
jimbo
Currently have 6 drives for external storage, 3x 2 TB drives and 3x 1 TB drives... this 3 TB drive will be an awesome addition to my collection lol.... 12 TBs..... Yeah!
Oh Boy...do I still remember when WD came up with a 40MB drive and it had to be partitioned because DOS only supported 32 MB
or even the ~24lbs 10 MB IBM drive I took out of a phased out UNIX Server of 10 years which then ran another 5 years in one of my desktops before it went to HW heaven
all of a sudden I feel so old
-DG