1TB and 750GB Western Digital for laptops is announced

There it is

1TB for laptops

I know many people are asking for this kind of hard drives so WD listened to you
Unfortunately they are 12.5mm form factor so for some of us might not be suitable at the moment and they are SATA2. Apparently they managed to pack three 333GB platters

 

I found this article as well which says at the moment the HDDs are offered as MyPassport external USB Drives and they carry a $190 and $250 price tag. 1TB mobile WD hard drive

I couldn't find any info in WD website though

 

Holy cow! I can't wait for those things to be available for purchase

 

333GB per platter means we will see a 640GB (2-platter) notebook drive from WD soon.

However, it will still be some time before they can increase density to 500GB per platter (to allow a 1TB drive with 2-platters, ie to fit into the 9.5mm formfactor).

 

now that i have 1tb 3.5" disks in my home server, they release 2.5" ones.. thanks

well, i guess i can life with it

 

They don't fit in laptops so... as far as I am concerned, they might as well be 3.5in drives. Guess it's cool for external storage.

 

Wow that's incredible.

Samsung was able to fit 3 platters in 9.5mm so maybe we will get 9.5mm versions at some point.

 

I'll wait until they can actually fit in laptops to get excited.

 

I guess its a step in the right direction. I might pick one up for an external use.

 

I wish they would put more money towards SSD's.

 

Nice. By the way Seagate has already released a two platter 640GB drive at normal height.

They fit in some laptops.

 

Yep, they do.

Bring on the benchmarks!

 

For all intents and purposes, they don't fit into laptops.
They fit inside some giant Sager something? That's fine. I am talking about the 99% of laptops that they don't fit inside of....

 

Cool stuff, but as noted, the 12.5mm form factor is going to hurt this drive's application. The best use would be an external hard drive. 1TB of storage in a palm-sized device . . . amazing.

Remind me to re-read my last statement in 10 years for a good laugh.

 

It's less than 99%.

Saying "They don't fit in most laptops" would be correct.

 

So when are they available for purchase?

 

98.9%? lolz.

For all intents and purposes, they don't fit into laptops. I am sorry man, but they don't. Heck, even the release says in select notebook applications. There's always exceptions and select applications...

 

I think WD really did this so that they could get 1TB passport mobile drives thus the 12.5mm height. Anyway I am impressed...

 

I what one to install in the smartbay....

 

Actually they do fit in some.

Sony, HP, Asus all have some models that fit 12.5 mm drives. Just to name a few.

 

NICE!!!

Though that's alot of data to loss, if anything happens.

 

12.5mm used to be the standard in all notebooks before... it's only recently that 9.5mm has picked up.

 

they'll fit in my laptop just fine.

thanks, Sony!

 

It'd be great having a 1TB external hard drive that doesn't need a clunky AC adaptor. Although, the price is quite steep

 

In 10 years time, the average laptop will have 1TB ram, and MS will still manage to make an OS that eats it all

 

wow with 2.5 drives getting this kind of data density, i cant wait until 3.5in drives are no longer needed.

 

Yeah, physically 4x 2.5" drives fit in the same space as 1x 3.5"... 4TB!

 

yep! and less power consumption and heat (with out heat sinks) on top of it all

 

Now, we need to focus on 1.8" drives...

 

Whatever guys. lol.

Good luck fitting them into your laptops.

 

Samsung will probably release 1TB 3 platter design 9.5mm hdd for regular laptops soon.

 

what about 2.5" 1TB 7200rpm?
when will we see in 7200rpm 2.5" drives an increase in capacity?

 

Probably in a couple of months.

 

Oh man, I can't wait!

 

I don't see 1TB 7200 rpm coming soon, as three platter at 7200rpm means even more heat.

But at the end of the year we may see a two platter 640GB Seagate 7200rpm.

 

First I would wait for other manufacturers to catch up with Seagate and release 500GB 7200rpm drives.

After that, I would not expect any larger size (larger than 500GB) 7200rpm drives for at least 8/9 months.

 

250$ for 1TB SSD prices are dropping very very slowly in comparation to HDD's.
the time never come.


250$ 1TB 5200rpm 0.250Gb/$
065$ 320Gb 5200rpm 0.203Gb/$
130$ 320Gb 7200rpm 0.406Gb/$
600$ 256Gb SSD 2.344Gb/$
300$ 128gb SSD 2.344Gb/$

SSD's were like 5$ per Gb 2years ago.
According to Moore's law in 36months we will see SSD's at 0.5$ per Gb. but by then HDD's will be even cheaper.

 

You hit the nail on the head with this cost per Gb comparison .

I would love to buy a SSD but the cost per Gb on them right now is too high! And I am not the sort of person who uses 2 hard drives in my notebook. I like to have one main drive that is fairly large and then a backup external drive for long term storage (I don't take my external drive with me very often). Current SSDs just don't make the cut for me price wise and storage wise; I will probably buy my first SSD when the price reaches around $1 per Gb and the sizes are atleast 320Gb or more.

 

You boys do realize there is a slight performance difference between conventional HDD and SSDs.... yes?

 

Thats pretty shibby, I could fit 2TB in my laptop soon then, hehe

It's a bit more than "slight" nu D

 

slight.. like SLIGHT?

it's a bit like buying a gpu for faster gaming. i mean, the gpu has half a gig memory.. HALF A GIG, WHAT SHOULD I DO WITH IT??? MY PC HAS 8 GB RAM WHY SHOULD I PAY TONS OF MONEY FOR HALF A GIG?



i know the analogy is flawed, but it, still, gives an idea for the real reason, why one buys an ssd. hint: not because of the storage

 

I was being a tad sarcastic...

 

yes.

and that price limits the usefulness of SSD and limits the market to almost entirely an enthusiast one.

when they work the bugs out and cut the price by at least 60%, give us a call. until then, we'll be enjoying our copious amounts of space and waiting the extra 6 seconds to open Word.

 

you do know that the prices are dropping all the time, and just dropped another step due to the new intels.

and actually, the usefulness would rectify the cost for almost all of us, but people don't know this, yet.

 

lolz.

I am sorry, but I find your statement to be comical as I look at your signature: RAID 0, overclocked GPU, RGB LED, 10GB RAM. Those specs, at least to me, imply that you are someone who cares about that extra 3-5% of performance. Compound that with the fact that SSDs transform the entire computing performance as opposed to a slight boost in FPS.... and you arrive at the point of comedy. If you're willing to shell out for 10GB of memory then man, you should be the first one in the SSD line. lol.

I wonder why 7,200 RPM drives are more expensive than their 5,400 RPM counterparts? When they are the same price, I am going to opt for the 7,200 RPM drives!

By the way, how does the price limit it's usefulness? Whether it's a buck 95 or $200, it's going to perform the same way and perform the same exact tasks.

 

Guys, let's keep in on topic here: 1TB and 750GB Western Digital drives.

 

The 1TB drive is going for $250 while the new intel 80gb ssd is going for like $225. If I had only one HD slot, I would definitely go for the 1tb drive, I wouldn't care how fast the ssd is. (note: I use a ssd as my main drive).

 

I use only the ssd, no matter how much storage I miss

the terabytes are all on the network. cheapest, best performing solution.

still, i'd like to have 2.5" drives for storage. smaller. not, that it's important. power consumption on the server is of interest.

 

I don't see much of a point for these things. Personally, I don't require a terabyte of storage, but even if I did (and if I owned one of the few laptops which these drives fit into), would it really be a good idea to keep it on a laptop hard drive? Hard drives are not fond of acceleration and laptops (at least the ones I've owned) get moved around a lot. You'd need to back it up anyway and external drives can be had for a fraction of the cost.

I guess it would be useful for people who go through hundreds of GB of content often (e.g. for video editing), but it seems like a niche product and they don't really have much time to bring prices down before SSDs render these things irrelevant.

 

With just 333GB per platter, I bet the performance is not that much different than the current Seagate 7K 250GB per platter, especially that it is only 5400 RPM. I am going to wait until they have 500GB per platter then we will see noticeable different.