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    2tb or higher 2.5 drives?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Kyle, Oct 31, 2011.

  1. Kyle

    Kyle JVC SZ2000 Dual-Driver Headphones

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    HDD capacity has remained stagnant for the past 1.5 years, any increase on the horizon?

    Have the reliability issues of the 1.5 tb drives been fixed? Last year there were lots of complaints.
     
    Kyle, Oct 31, 2011
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  2. SlickDude80

    SlickDude80 Notebook Prophet

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    usually complaints are with certain batches that had manufacturing defects or firmware issues. I don't think its a systemic problem with all larger drives. For example, Seagate had lots of issues with their first 7200.10 drives. But this has been resolved with a firmware update.

    My personal experience...i have a 3TB Western Digital external for storage and it has worked brilliantly so far

    EDIT: OOOps, i see you're interested in 2.5" drives and i was talking about 3.5" lol. The largest 2.5 drives that i have seen are 1.5TB
     
    SlickDude80, Oct 31, 2011
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  3. sgogeta4

    sgogeta4 Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Except those are 15mm in height and won't fit into any current notebook. 1TB can be found at 9.5mm, which is the standard notebook HDD height. Probably won't see any bigger until next year.
     
    sgogeta4, Oct 31, 2011
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  4. tijo

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    Yeah, the problem for laptop drives is that they need to remain thin and that means increasing platter density since they can't indefinitely add platters (well the same goes for desktop, but you have more room to add platters) . We're getting there slowly, if i' not mistaken a platter density record was broken this year by seagate.
     
    tijo, Oct 31, 2011
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