1TB notebook HDD

I read a while back about WD releasing a 1tb notebook HDD. I guess they released an external one and some Mac people took them out of their cases and put them into Macbooks. But, those were a little bigger than the standard sized 2.5" drives. Does anyone have any info on a 1TB notebook HDD?

 

http://www.google.com/products?hl=en&q=WD10TEVT&scoring=p

Here is the internal version. 12.5mm height, but you probably knew that already.

 

640GB is the largest you can get with 9.5mm standard height right now.

 

Any ideas when a standard size 1tb will be out?

 

Not until at least mid 2010, by my estimation.

 

My money is on Christmas 2010.

 

What are the chances I can jam the current 1TB drive into a notebook?

 

Depends on your notebook, there is no chance to it just a matter of design.

There are also notebooks that hold two or even three drives in them, so you can get additional storage that way.

Plus dont forget about the ability to replace your optical drive with a HDD in many notebooks.

 

What notebook do you have? Do you the service manual?

 

Well this will be for the HP Envy 15 which I'll be ordering. It has two HDD slots. But, I guess I'll have to wait till some manuals/inside pics/specs come out to really know.

If it won't work, I guess I'll go with teh 640GB, although that's pretty small as I almost have my 500gb full.

 

Considering the thickness of it, I'd bet it wouldn't fit. Consider a 2TB external eSATA drive?

 

Aren't you getting a little carried away? That's an awful lot of storage for a notebook, don't you think? And don't forget you'll need to own a mint if it ever gets damaged.

On the other hand, as an avid multimedia enthusiast and video editor, I suppose I could find a use for such a device.

 

1TB is not much i think..
nowadays games are around 10GB in size...
videos...some photoshop'd image can fill up 500gb in matter of days...

 

What? At the rate of 2 DVDs per week, you could watch those full length movies for 2 years! Or 250 DVDs.

Here's more:

A 1TB drive can hold (actual capacity varies by content): -

* 17,000 hours of music.
o To put that in perspective that’s 708 days of non-stop listening to music, without sleeping – that’s just under 2 YEARS!

* 320,000 high resolution digital photos
o The average family takes 700 photos when they go on holiday. A 1TB drive will allow you to store 457 holidays worth of photos.

* 1000 hours of digital video
o Equivalent to 41 days of watching your home video footage - without sleeping.

* 250 DVD films (2 hours in length)

source: toshibalife.com

 

Well considering I just bought two more 1TB drives for my desktop I know how fast space can go.

Granted thats my desktop and not my laptop but the laptop can get full fast too.

First if you have a game collection and want all your games on the go thats about 5GB each.

Then there is your large music collection.

Your picture collection

And movie collection.

a DVD is like 4.X GB if you keep the original .iso file, and if you go HD movies like blueray they are 7GB+ easy.

I do photoshop and my images dont take up too much space but they do add up, and I do video editing, this is the huge space eater. A single uncompressed fraps file for a 10 minute game recording is like 40+GB

 

there's an Asus laptop with 1 TB SSD....

 

If you really need that much space NOW, then get a SATA bridge and build an enclosure out of duct tape.

 

Put it on Ebay, someone might buy it...yes?

 

Oh and dont forget lossless music, I just started getting into that and it eats space fast.

Though I think I am going to try to convert from FLAC to AAC as I like AAC format and it still sounds just as good to me.

 

i'm a dj and a music lover, and i have about 10GB of music. that's 1% of that disk filled. another % gets to all the pictures of my life (Parties, Holidays, etc). another %.

Games? How many do i need active? 1? 10? doesn't matter, still not even CLOSE to 10% of disk usage.

if you care a bit about what you really need, there is not much space needed. the rest is just growing bloat like you just don't care

and movies, well, they are obviously on the home server, as i want to be able to access them from any device. and if i go to some voyage, i can take some movies with me easily, with 10 - 50gb i have enough movies for myself for the voyage.

it's a bit about how you handle your stuff. i try to only have what is of interest for me. that's why i don't have a 1TB mp3 collection or so.. because i would not listen to it anyways. (and i couldn't, technically, do it even. there is just not enough lifetime for me)

 

Didn't I win this argument already?

 

jup. just wanted to support you.

 

I think the majority of my disk space is archiving game backups and stuff because I do have a tendency to lose disks for some reason. Also my anime collection and stuff.

It gets archived because its not like if I just decide I want to watch it one day I can go online and find it. Many of these more rare files get harder and harder to find online as time passes.

Windows Home Server is still #1 on my to get list, they have the 1TB HP for $300 refurbished at ECost but I think I want to build my own still, I should have got 8 of those $65 1TB WD Externals , I took the drives out and they were 1TB WD Greens' and then sold the enclosures for about $7 each making the drive less than $60 for 1TB.

Still probably best I keep my eye out for some really good 1.5 or 2TB HDD deals for the server to reduce the number of disks I need.

 

well, just put in the first two or three disks in your home server and look how much you fill it up, then continue adding disks (and possibly replace some later with 2tb disks if you want to)

 

Yeah I wont get them all at once as I am sure price will go down on drives as time passes and tech will get better, but I need to have about 4TB to start with atleast since I want redundancy and I would have to get 4x1TB drives and fill up the entire server and then have to replace them rather than just add more, so I will need to stick with larger capacity drives I think.

That is one of the main reasons to build my own though as my build is going to use a 6 drive case and 6 drive psu & mobo rather than the 4 drive setup the HP unit uses.

I still hope for ultra cheap mass storage SSD tech to hit market sometime soon, just use some really slow flash and build large desktop storage based drives out of it.

 

hehe, waiting for that myself. then my home server in my sig would be 100% silent..

 

1TB on a laptop? That's huge! All the suddenly my notebook with 200 GB space seemed just a bit smaller. 1000GB, that's like 1000 movies

 

Just to chip in:
There is a 1TB passport drive from western digital unless I am mistaken - how high is that?
12,5 or 9,5mm?
It is 2,5" I think

And speaking of data amounts...

I spent two week in Poland (and a lot of time in Germany) and I think I came back with 70GB of files - from my photographs.

1) RAW data files, saved (all images)
2) selected RAW data files and any PS work/editing plus resulting JPEG
3) JPEGs

So its very, very easy to create a lot of data.

My RAW files are aroun 8 to a mximum of 12MB - on an EOS400D

Now if you look at the newer Canon cameras, their RAW files are ever larger...

Then if you do things like HDRs, one image can be about 100-120MB (in 32Bit mode).

Panoramas can give you 1,8GB psd files...

So filling all that space would be easy...

 

It's 12.5mm thick.

 

Ah, OK, thanks.

 

I really could use the space because things add up quickly. My movie collection is 90% HD 1080p Blu-Ray compressed files (10-12GB per movie). Also, my music collection is FLAC lossless. Not to mention files, pics, docs, etc.

I don't know if I'll be able to mod the HP Envy 15 or not, cause nobody knows the inside yet. I hope it will work though cause I'd really like to have the SSD and 1TB setup.

 

1080p @10-12GB is small. all my 1080p are 30GB, and add all the APE FLAC, i really need that HDD......

 

True. The only reason why I compress them is because I needed to save space. When talking 30-50GB movies, you could use up 1TB pretty quick with a movie collection.

 

LOL, you guys can certainly come up with some exaggerated examples to make your point. Still, I'm not completely oblivious to the valid points you've made. Nevertheless, most of you guys are geeks ; therefore, I still maintain the average laptop user will never store anywhere near that much data.

 

What is an average laptop user?

You get people who want a cheap small computer and buy a laptop (and end up unhappy)

And you get people who know what they buy and want the best they can find...

 

Psh, screw the statistical average. They aren't the ones making these companies filthy rich. The geeks are the ones refreshing their hardware like clockwork.

 

Too true