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    1TB 2.5" Bus powered external HDDs?

    Discussion in 'Accessories' started by cdnalsi, Apr 21, 2009.

  1. cdnalsi

    cdnalsi Food for the funky people

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    So are they out yet or is the biggest 2.5" HDD still at 500GB?
     
    cdnalsi, Apr 21, 2009
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    still 500gb. 750gb possibly soon-ish.
     
    davepermen, Apr 21, 2009
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  3. Hep!

    Hep! sees beauty in everything

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    Source on the coming 750GBs?
     
    Hep!, Apr 21, 2009
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    unknowntt Notebook Evangelist

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    Nooooo, i just got my (free) 500 GB drive! I want 750 GB!! Damn it this sets me back =/
     
    unknowntt, Apr 21, 2009
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    Hey Canadia lol, it's free. What more can you want.
     
    sgogeta4, Apr 21, 2009
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    unknowntt Notebook Evangelist

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    Only because my warranty with Visa alllowed me to buy whatever hard drive i wanted! Anyone wanna buy my 500GB so I can buy a 750 when it comes out?
     
    unknowntt, Apr 21, 2009
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  7. Hep!

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    Dude, they're not coming. That was someone just saying things.
    We're going to see 640GB laptop drives before we see 750GB ones.
    a 750GB laptop drive would mean the platters are 375GB each. We don't even have 320GB single platter drives yet so we are far off (far off = like 6 months in the tech world) from a 750GB laptop hard drive.
     
    Hep!, Apr 21, 2009
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    Right now, it's already possible to produce 640GB HDDs. Desktop hdd already have 500GB 3.5" platters so they can definetly cram 300~GB on 2.5" platter.

    The market is just not ready to adopt highier capacity drives thus they're no produced.
     
    jackluo923, Apr 22, 2009
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  9. NAS Ghost

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    Depends on the price; you got it free, so I want a discount :D
     
    NAS Ghost, Apr 22, 2009
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  10. Greg

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    Area = pi * r^2

    (pi * (2.5/2)^2)/(pi * (3.5/2)^2) == 0.51

    Just FYI, but laptop disc drives have about half the surface area as desktop drives....so you MIGHT see 1TB laptop hard drives once 2TB desktop drives become more mainstream.
     
    Greg, Apr 22, 2009
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  11. davepermen

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    well, laptop disks also have less platters in height possible, so no, i don't think 1tb will be coming.

    yeah 750gb was just a rumour, sorry for writing it wrong.

    i guess by the end of the year, ssd's surpass notebook hdds in storage size. they could even now, but as you can't pay them anyways :)


    edit: and when you have the choise to buy which ever hdd you want for free, why didn't you get the most expensive ssd you could find? :) (and then sell it for tons of cheap ssd's and hdd's :))
     
    davepermen, Apr 22, 2009
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    500GB*0.5= 250GB/platter

    You can fit 3 platters to existing 9.5mm 2.5"hdd, so
    250*3=750GB laptop hdd.

    But like someone else said earlier, 640GB HDD will appear before 750GB.
     
    jackluo923, Apr 22, 2009
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  13. Clutch

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    To be honest I hope they draw the line HD's soon and go SSD's
     
    Clutch, Apr 22, 2009
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  14. davepermen

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    yeah. i drew that line. it's the best i did in my pc life :)
     
    davepermen, Apr 23, 2009
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    I thought the 3 platter hard drives were ~12.5mm
     
    namaiki, Apr 23, 2009
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  16. jackluo923

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    NVM, i was under the impression that Hitachi 5k500 had 3 platter design and still fitted inside a 9.5mm case.
     
    jackluo923, Apr 23, 2009
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