640GB or 750GB Notebook HD available when?

Well I ordered the Dell Studio 1555 with the smallest configuration HD in hopes of buying a much larger drive to replace it myself. I want to go at 640GB minimum because it is what I have on a custom desktop here. It is perfect.

So from Newegg, TigerDirect, wherever... when can we suspect to see a 5400RPM at the least of these drives? Thanks.

 

Haven't seen any. The closest is 500 GB in two platters for laptops. I don't see it increasing too much unless we can significantly raise the GB per platter area.

 

They are suppose to be announced by late Q2, though would take longer for supply to widen.

 

I'm waiting for a larger hard drive too. This 250GB drive isn't cutting it anymore, because I'm a pack rat. I actually had to UNINSTALL some programs a few weeks ago! *gasp*

 

Can't you just use a 500GB for now?

You can also store files on an external harddrive, better yet, put your ethernet to good use make a home server from your desktop, etc... idk? lol


I see 750GB at the end of this year or beginning 2010... that's it, the 320 to 500 GB jump was decent enough to put a hold on advancements...

 

at some point a nas starts to make better sense than a bigger laptop drive

 

Hahaha or that


But I think running an ethernet cable from your desktop to your laptop is the fastest and cheapest way to share and store files... and they are accessible from both computers

Then you could share it wirelessly... but the speeds and security would be slow...


Or you can do the NAS, but that will cost you way more...

 

Samsung could, if they wanted, re-work their 3-platter 500GB 9.5mm thick drive to have higher capacity platters. However, I suspect that all the HDD manufacturers realise that the market for >500GB notebook HDDs is currently small. It's taking most people time to fill the 180GB made available by the jump from 320GB to 500GB.

I'm moving towards thinking of 250GB internal SSD and 500GB eSATA HDD. I don't need to have instant access to more than 250GB.

John

 

Same but SSD need to go down in price a good 250gb SSD will cost more than your whole machine

Im a space hog myself but think the 120gb vertex would work for me if paired with a 500gb drive. Using a large laptop I have the luxury of two drives. I would just use the SSD for OS/Programs/Games though if I had 250gb SSD I could also then use it for other stuff like video/photo work without as much fear of space limitation.

 

Samsung, Fujitsu and Hitachi all made three platter 500GB drives, I don't see any reason why they wouldn't make a three platter 750GB drive in the near future.

 

I wish M$ will require manufacturers to have 32GB or 64GB superfast SSD ONBOARD the mobo for windows 8 and powerful programs

I have a 320GB 7200rpm main drive and a 320GB 5400rpm storage drive

Right as I bought my 320GB 7200rpm I found out they released the 500GB 7200rpm a week later... SAME PRICE



What is the maximum laptops can handle? Is it like RAM where you have 32bit limits?

 

now the first notebook with 512ssd gets to market (read it today), which maybe helps again, driving prices down.

 

Some smart person invented the PCI-E SDD and those go up to like 4TB and are just SIIIICK fast and crazy expensive... but still


But there was also those people who striped/RAID/Clustered 25 SSD's and loaded up windows in like 10 seconds and opened all of Microsoft Office in 3 seconds

 

all of microsoft office is <3 sec here, too with just a raid0 of two mtrons. at least office 2007 is very fast anyways

what i ment is an ordinary 2.5" sata ssd with 512 i know about the special funky creations that exist

 

Maybe I could spare going for a 500GB. What is the cheapest 7200RPM 500GB HD available?

 

Hard Drives are so cheap nowadays, I think they definitely have reached the perfect price point!

EDIT: Sorry, forgot it was a laptop... but still... $150 for 500GB 7200RPM isn't all that bad...


http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148374

Seagate Momentus 7200.4 ST9500420AS 500GB 7200 RPM 2.5" SATA 3.0Gb/s Internal Notebook Hard Drive - OEM
$150 Brand New on Newegg

$90-$100 for all the other 500GB but they are 5400RPM, I am sure it wont make more than 10% speed difference... go look at benchmarks

 

I want to wait until that price drops to $100. Then I'll buy.

Or if there's another place where I could get a 500GB 7200RPM drive for $100...

 

There are others...

Seagate makes the best one though I think...


There are other... just look it up on google "500GB 7200RPM 2.5"

 

Seagate is the only one unfortunately.

 

Ugh... laptop HDD's again...

I keep forgetting!


Just go ahead and get a $130-$150 7200RPM 500GB HDD...
Or an $80-$90 5400RPM 500GB

The price seems to be "Expensive" just think about it... 5400RPM vs 7200RPM SPINNING FIVE HUNDRED GIGABYTES IN A LAPTOP

But there really is no noticeable difference unless your moving gigs of data or you notice a 40 second game load vs a 41 second game load

 

Given the current state of SSD's I have to heavily disagree. Most of them aren't very reliable compared to mechanical hard drives (Intel and Samsung excepted; Vertex is too early to tell), and if it were required you know the cheap ones would be used in most cases. I wouldn't buy an SSD on a laptop now unless I knew the brand it was (and then it would probably be too expensive). So I'll take my nice reliable mechanical hard drive, thank you.

And there's no practical maximum on hard drive space for laptops. There probably is an eventual limit, but it's far out in the future at this point.

Hitachi's 3-platter one is 12.5mm. Not sure about Fujitsu's. But Samsung probably could convert theirs into a 750 GB drive.

 

I have been searching the net but cannot seem to get any info on a possible release date for when Hitachi will release their 500 Gb 7200 laptop hard drive?

 

Yep, Seagate's ST9500420AS and ST9500420ASG (G with the free fall sensor) are both 500GB 7200.4rpm drives. Still looking for them...

Anyway I found some on Ebay for just $129.99 but without the free fall sensor.