Hitachi to Release Half TB Drive Soon 607
samdu writes "Hitachi has announced plans to release a 7200 RPM 3.5 inch 500 GB hard drive in the first quarter of this year." Maybe this one won't require a new motherboard to use. I think I've replaced more mobo's to handle larger drives than I have to support faster CPUs.
yay! (Score:4, Funny)
Tonight at 10 (Score:3, Funny)
Yeah! (Score:1, Funny)
Re:yay! (Score:1, Funny)
Yay....but (Score:4, Funny)
Inching up (Score:3, Funny)
Now, when am I going to see this capacity in my iPod? ...
A Fairy Tale (Score:5, Funny)
One day Hitachi invented a 500 gigabyte drive. The RIAA said "The public is evil, that's 100,000 5 MB MP3s!" Then the MPAA cried "The public is evil, that's over seven hundred 700 MB xvid movies!" So their lobbyists went to Washington to get these high capacity drives made illegal. And their shareholders lived happily ever after.
The End
Scotty, I need more power... (Score:2, Funny)
Screw that, keep those system designers off my power supply, I want more power not less!!
Re:Rooms full of drives (Score:5, Funny)
>Now I can hold a TB in one hand...
>I like this decade better.
Because you are now on steroids?
When will they ever learn... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:How many movies, MP3s can one possibly use? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I continue to be amazed.... (Score:5, Funny)
It's actually a compression algorithm. You know that computers store information as a series of ones and zeroes, right? Well, they just added a driver that writes only the ones, not the zeroes, instantly doubling the storage space.
After that, it's been a matter of building the drives with smaller and smaller pencils to write those ones side-by-side. When hard disks were first introduced, they used a standard #2 pencil sharpened down to the eraser, but eventually they moved to mechanical pencils, then realized they could use the mechanical pencil lead without the pencil at all.
Today, special microscopic pencils can be built one molecule at a time. The "eraser threshold" (currently the smallest one is 0.00003 centimeters in diameter) is a key factor in manufacturing drives.
Re:Well what an interesting article (Score:3, Funny)
My cat's breath smells like cat food. Well it does...
Re:Rooms full of drives (Score:3, Funny)
Evil Corporations (Score:0, Funny)
Wait, what? We hate corporations in general but we like it when they make cool products that we use and like? And we SUPPORT corporations by going out and buying their products?! Oh me oh my!
Re:Well what an interesting article (Score:2, Funny)
180K?!? Luxury!! We used to have to get out of the lake at three o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of hot gravel, go to work at the mill every day for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would beat us around the head and neck with a broken bottle, if we were LUCKY!
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Re:Tonight at 10 (Score:2, Funny)
Better than Maxtor (Score:2, Funny)
Re:yay! (Score:4, Funny)
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Re:yay! (Score:3, Funny)
i'm confused...
No Practical Size Limits? (Score:2, Funny)
Wait 10 years...
Re:Tonight at 10 (Score:3, Funny)
That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. You should have partitioned it into three 66.6GB partitions and made it RAID 5, then it would be fast and fault tolerant.
Re:Linux-compatible SATA II controller cards? (Score:1, Funny)
Check to see if 3ware has anything interesting before you buy. I've had excellent luck with their SATA stuff on both FreeBSD and Linux.
Re:yay! (Score:1, Funny)