Is there any 2.5" Hard Drive with 2/3 TB out there?

As tittle says. Is there any 2.5" hard drive Sata3 with 2TB or 3TB with 7200rpm out there?

 

No. 2.5" drives are physically smaller than their 3.5" counter parts, and have only just begun to hit 1TB capacities.

 

I'm just curious as to what someone could need 3 TB of storage on a notebook for.

 

music, photos, videos

Im ''converting'' my mp3 library to flac, what once was a 100gb music collection, its now over 200gb

 

If you are on the go, why would you depend solely on the Internet for your music and video needs? This is especially true on long flights or in cases where WiFi is not available and/or you do not have an aircard.

 

But that's still way less than 3 TB. 3 TB is just so much data!

 

Bragging rights?

 

Thank you Greg , that's what I need. rep+

because I have many video and documents , I do not prefer external hard drives

 

There are 1.5 and 2 TB in 2.5" but they are like 12.5mm and 15mm and will not fit in a normal laptop drive bay. You'd have to crack open an external hard drive to get the drive (and assuming the USB circuit board is not soldered on).

 

I've think about that too , but some external hard drive "casing" looks like build in 3.5" hard drive. Any suggestion for external hard drive which build in 2.5" 2tb drive?

PS : I had few cheap external drive , they build in with ATA hard drive (the usb circuit board is not soldered on).

 

There are no "portable" hard drives greater than 1.5TB. By portable, means powered by USB. And even external drives sometimes have proprietary connections internally so you can't just pull it out and put it in your laptop.

 

I guess I'll stick with 1TB and delete some videos.

 

The industry sees no need to put out high capacity 2.5" drives on the market that rival the 3.5" ones.
Why would they?
They first need to milk out the 3.5" segment as much as possible (irrespective if the tech exists to cram even well over 10TB on a 2.5").

Anyway... I got myself a 2.5" 1TB external drive for storage and it's not enough.
I need at least 2 or 3TB, and 3.5" is a no-go because it's way too big (I need more mobility).
The largest external 2.5" HDD I've seen (usb powered of course) is 1.5TB.

Also, why would I rely on youtube?
It frequently removes things due to various violations and whatnot, and I wouldn't be surprised if it becomes Pay per view model down the line.
Why bother?
I prefer having my things on my external 2.5" HDD where I can access it on the go at any given time and won't rely on the internet connection.

Sheesh... the thing with the 'cloud' is really pervasive, but I can't stand it.

 

I have a NAS with 1tb in raid 5, sincerely its almost filled, there is less than 50gb left.

and as I said its a "conversion" in progress, a flac CD for example is usually 300-500mb. Only my beatles collection would be well over 11gb (27 albums), and that is just a fraction of what I have. Gladly I hope my new external 500gb drive would be sufficient for that.

Today I converted A Fine Frenzy (3 albums = 1.5gb), Norah Jones (4 albums = 2gb), Thelonius Monk (1 album = 1gb), I have some more cds laying around at work, so I will do those latter (Dave Brubeck [7 albums], Beethoven [32 albums], Radiohead [8 albums])

PS: I have to start doing this by alphabetic order or I will lose my mind

Now all I need to do is to buy a cowon j3 32gb + 16gb SDXC card and I will be a glad man

irrrrc I would prefer to use grooveshark over youtube, and I dont always have an internet connection wherever I go, specially at uni, since its blacklisted, and at home I have a 100gb cap, and its currently beng stretched thin due to downloading several MS programs that Im trying, and backing up my steam library (not that its large, only 30 ish games)

Not to mention the audio quality of flac is a thousand fold better than anything available for streaming.

BTW Im not an audiophile, but its clear as day the difference between a 256kps mp3 to a flac, noticed first when I did the experiment with Koop, damn the difference was just right there.

 

what models are you talking about that are 1.5 and 2.tb for 2.5" 12.5mm, i have an optical right now with 1tb 12.5mm, i myself am maxing out 3tb's i need space immediately, got a link? model name, first i'm hearing of this.

 

Newegg.com - Seagate 1.5TB USB 2.0 Black Expansion Portable Hard Drive STAX1500100
Newegg.com - iomega Prestige Portable 1.5TB USB 3.0 Black External Hard Drive 35213
Newegg.com - Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex 1.5TB USB 3.0 External Hard Drive STAA1500100

 

I saw the black expansion comes with 5400rpm , how about other 2? 7200rpm? Thanks for the link , kinda out of rep today.

 

But most people need optical bay external are annoying, and OS as SSD (not much people can afford 400GB+ above's SSD) , storage as HDD. That's why we need larger space.

 

those are all external models, your saying thats a SINGLE capacity drive that has 1.5 storage inside of there that would fit an optical bay, and it is not released on the market? thats what i quoted from the user who claimed theres 1.5tb 12.5mm form factor hdd

 

open the case and find out if they will fit

 

They might fit in an optical bay adapter, but the physical connection the drive uses to the internal enclosure is what's proprietary. I tried to disassemble a WD Passport and ran into this problem. It's not a standard SATA connector. As soon as you take the drive apart, unless you can put it all back together again, it's rendered useless.

 

I imagined that something terrible like that would happen.

 

Not completely. Great opportunity to get those rare earth magnets out of there!

Not quite as good as desktop drives, but still...

 

If you were looking for a fun DIY job then you could try and solder on a connector. I really doubt they'd bother making a whole new connection standard, more likely that they just rearranged SATA into a different shape.

A 12.5mm drive most likely won't fit in a 12.5mm bay though, that is the external diameter of the bay so the inside is going to be more limited.

 

5400 rpm vs 7200 rpm is not going to make a difference for externals, USB is going to be your bottleneck.

 

They are 15mm models, I believe. There is no 2.5" drive of that capacity that will fit into current notebooks, which are generally 9.5mm.

 

we were talking about 12.5mm models that fit into optical bays, and i personally would have issues with the type of quality this unknown 12.5mm 1.5tb drive is.

 

All of erm are 12.5mm , I don't think it will fit my 9.5mm. So I guess 1TB is way to go.