I need a internal 2TB drive! What is there?

I have been looking about for a new 2TB 2.5" 12.7mm drive I can mount in my ODD bay.

I think they exist I have have seen external drives but I can't pin down a bare drive for sale...

Can anybody shed some light on this? Or should I just buy this drive and prize it open to get at the bare drive inside.

edit: continuing my search I have found the WD passport 2TB of interest but it is a 15mm tall drive. Too big I think to put inside the ODD Any other options?

 

You can't find because they don't exist. yet.
they appear first as external hdd's because they can have special form factors that are easy to make.

as for buying one and open it sorry but it won't work. how do you expect to connect an usb3.0 hdd to a ODD bay? that I known off there's only SATA or IDE adapters.



as you can see the usb3.0 port and controller are soldered to the pcb and there's no other interface.

if you really want to have that inside your notebook you can do it but you have to connect it to an usb port.
you can find mini pci-e to usb3.0 adapters that would do the trick.

I hate external HDD's. it's so much easier and cheap to buy an internal one plus enclosure. I hate they do this kind of crap like soldering non sense interfaces or even soldering the hdd to the enclosure to avoid people from using the device in other way.

btw this drive is 5400rpm 4x500gb platers and it seams 12.7mm but I bet it's a little bigger.

but there's already 1.5TB 2.5" internal HDD's if you want.

 

That sucks. HDD tech really is creeping along. Especially when the technology exisits to make 10-20GB capacity 2.5" drives....

 

Few people want a 2TB internal. Many more want a smaller SSD. Many prefer a external high capacity drive. The ratio of (want-product-1)/(want-product-2) decides which product's tech "creeps" along. Science usually progresses much faster if there is a need for it.

 

correction, people want big SSD's but they can't afford it. demand for high capacity for SSD's is huge. the only reason why people don't buy it is price.
and if "science" technology you mean I guess, progressed faster then there was need for it we would have quantum computing on a smartphone.

 

No I said science progresses faster IF there is need for it. I don't think the common man needs that type of computing power on a smartphone. Either ways, I don't know many people that need a 2TB drive in their computer. If you do, I guess I hang out with the other tip of the iceberg.

To reinforce you and answer OPs question, no there is nothing there yet.

 

The push now is for cloud storage or at least not local storage. I've done well with 256GB drives. At times 512GB would be nice, but really not much more. I have an 8TB home server where I store all my large files and only keep necessary stuff on the laptop. In any case there are no traditional 9.5mm or 12.7mm 2TB hard drives yet. But unless you absolutely need that much local storage, consider a Windows Home Server or a basic NAS with web access.

 

I know my 1TB is filling up, i was thinking of dropping in a 500gb in my DVD bay with a quality pata<sata adapter. Should i still have this aging beast, a 500-600gb SSD and put the 1TB in the DVD bay.