Sager no longer offering a 1TB 7200rpm drive?

I noticed for a while several Sager dealers offered a 1TB 7200 drive. Now I don't see it. What happened? Where the drives bad, did the run out of them, did they create problems? I plan to get a NP8275 in about a week, and I wanted a big storage drive, but not 5400.

Thanks

 

Sager ran out of stock and expected to have them back on Nov 4th. That shipment has been delayed with no ETA now. It's possible they are back in by the time you order it but there just is no date at this time.

 

I believe Hitachi is one of the only companies to offer that particular drive, so if they get short on them there aren't a lot of others to go to. They've been pretty faithful offering that drive though so it should probably come back soon

 

Thanks to both of you for the information. A 33% jump from 750 to 1000 is well worth it to me.

 

Just get a larger SSD to make up for it

 

I definitely want the 1TB 7200 too.

And I can't really go bigger than the M500 960GB sitting here waiting to go in my planned Black Friday purchase.

 

Oh, 25% right? Or is it it my goesintas?

 

No he's right. Though 1TB has 25% more space, it is a 33% increase in space from 750GB to 1TB.

/nerdglassesoff

 

Well soon there will be some 2tb standard height drives hitting the market so that will help ease demand.

 

Going from 750 to 1000 is a difference of 250. 250 divided by 750 is 1/3 or. 33333, or 33%. Another way to think of it is, to remember our starting point, whichnis the 750 drive. So a 100% increase, you would double the 750, 50% increase you take half the drive and add it, 33% is a third, so you add a third of the 750, i.e. 750+250=1000. So the starting point is important. Going from 1000 to 750 would be the 25% decrease.

Sorry if that is too simple, I recently did some tutoring. And also these numbers do not take into account over head, etc.

 

It's also funny when people don't realise why rate of fire upgrades in games are better for dps percent for percent than damage.

I always find it amusing when a review uses these things incorrectly.

 

Are you saying soon we will have 7200rpm 2tb drives? Any idea the time frame for retail or Sager offering?

I like the games that tell you the dps, so you don't have to do the math in your head. Games shouldn't force you to do math...

 

Yep my goesintas 750-33% = 250 "increase" Doh! While the 'difference" is 25% between 1TB-750... reading comprehension

Seagate announced a 2TB 9.5mm Samsung Spinpoint M9T. 5400rpm.

http://www.seagate.com/www-content/support-content/samsung/internal-products/spinpoint-m-series/en-us/samsung-m9t-internal-ds.pdf

 

Ugh, 5400rpm...

 

The Spinpoint M9T 2TB will be built on 3 666GB platters. Current 1TB 2.5" drives are based on 500GB platters. Additional areal data density will provide enough increase in data read speed to compensate the difference in platter rotation speed. In other words, the M9T will be at least equally fast, if not faster, as today's 1TB 2.5" 7200RPM HDDs (namely HGST Travelstar 7K1000, which I have in my laptop ).

In some benchmarks the HGST 7K1000 is not THAT much faster than, for instance, WD Scorpio Blue 1TB (which is a 5400RPM drive, I have it in my laptop too ) :