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    1.2 Terabyte notebook HDDs on the way ...

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by wearetheborg, Aug 9, 2007.

  1. wearetheborg

    wearetheborg Notebook Virtuoso

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    wearetheborg, Aug 9, 2007
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    R4000 Notebook Virtuoso

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    Hmm. I assume it will debut as a 4200rpm drive first?
     
    R4000, Aug 9, 2007
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    ShadowoftheSun Notebook Consultant

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    Gah! You beat me to it- I was just coming over here to post that after reading my Dailytech feed.

    On topic- probably 4200 RPM, but what's impressive is the technologies that allow such a high data density- should allow us to get 5,400 RPM hard drives at respectable sizes, ie. 600 GB. Too bad the technology is still aways off.
     
    ShadowoftheSun, Aug 9, 2007
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    I doubt it gonna be cheap at first
     
    allan_huang, Aug 9, 2007
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    lupin..the..3rd Notebook Evangelist

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    The most expensive note book drives today around only around $250. Just like they were last year and the year before that and the year before that. The price will remain the same (adjusted for inflation of course) it's just the specs that will get better and better each year. I guess you haven't been around computers very long. :p

    This is actually pretty useless news. It's scheduled for release in 2010. :rolleyes: :rolleyes: That means they're just guessing, they're no where near any actual product, and they pulled 2010 out of a hat. We all know PMR is leading to denser and denser drives. We'll have 300 GB before the end of the year, and 400GB in Q2 08 and 500GB in Q4 08.

    So 1.2 TB in 2010 makes me say "So what??". And Windows 2010 Premium Edition will require at least 5 Ghz CPU, 8 GB of RAM, and it will still be a virus and spyware riddled piece of crap that blue-screens every three days and isn't stable until Service Pack 4. Things never change!
     
    lupin..the..3rd, Aug 10, 2007
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    It's still three years off, too. That's a huge hard drive, though. More than 1 TB even in binary terms. I can't imagine ever using that much space, but Bill Gates once said no one will ever need more than 640k RAM and now Opera's using 85,556K RAM on my computer...
     
    Apollo13, Aug 10, 2007
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    I have 1.7TB on my desktop, 1.4 of it in use.
     
    matt_h1, Aug 10, 2007
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    You know porn's bad for your eyes, right?
     
    Ice-Tea, Aug 10, 2007
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