What?!?!?! 1TB hard drive is here!!
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Wow, not! Don't know why your so enthusiastic about it - just means that when it fails you loose more data. You would be safer buying two readily available 500GB hard drives, if one failed - at least you would probably have half your data still there.
(You could put two 1TB in raid config I suppose)
Also, are we living in the past STILL! Whats with the 7,500RPM? IT SUCKS! Drive manufacturers shoud be focusing more on speed than capacities, why haven't they developed a 15,000RPM 1TB hard drive - they can do it so cheaply! The whole terrabyte idea isn't exactly new.
P.S The price is going to be around $400.
(You could put two 1TB in raid config I suppose)
Also, are we living in the past STILL! Whats with the 7,500RPM? IT SUCKS! Drive manufacturers shoud be focusing more on speed than capacities, why haven't they developed a 15,000RPM 1TB hard drive - they can do it so cheaply! The whole terrabyte idea isn't exactly new.
P.S The price is going to be around $400.
mammikoura
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j.venning said:
YES! That is why I only have a 3gb hdd, so that when it will fail in 20 years I won't lose so much data. Or better yet, maybe I'll just throw it away and use my computer without a hdd! Then it can't fail so I won't lose any data!
j.venning said:
And the 7200 rpm is too slow for what? Sure 15000 rpm would be faster, but do you really need the extra speed?
Well yes really. If you put, say, a standard 10,000RPM Raptor in your build - you would probably notice a difference such as copying files etc and access times.
Considering that a majority of cheaper sub $1000 laptops have 4,200RPM or 5,400 drives and standard capacities of 120GB, if they doubled the size - couldn't they have 8,400RPM and 240GB easily?!
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Actually, the differences in performance are really not that great. I remember seeing benchmarks for various things with a Raptor vs. some 7200 RPM drive, and the difference was only a few FPS (games) / seconds (encoding) / points (3DMark, etc). So if you want to save a few seconds when copying files, go for it, but for normal users, an extra couple hundred dollars is not going to be worth it.j.venning said:
Kind of off topic: And what's this about a new 360? Any official sources? I heard something about an HDMI port a while back...
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yeah ive saw stuff about that but the way im thinking is whos going to need 1TB of hdd, i mean unless your a major music and video downloader.
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freestyler105 said:
true, it's not all about the speed the drive is spinning at. I think I even saw a test where hitachi deskstar (7200rpm) performed better (in most tests) than the 10000rpm raptor.
freestyler105
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Yeah, it really varies depending on the application.mammikoura said:
This page is actually a review of the WD Caviar SE16, but it compares various hard drives including the Raptor:
http://techreport.com/reviews/2005q2/wd-caviarse16/
