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James Fee
03-30-2005, 04:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,120102,tk,dn032905X,00.asp' target='_blank'>http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,120102,tk,dn032905X,00.asp</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Hitachi's new Deskstar 7K500 drive marks several milestones in the storage industry: It's the first desktop hard drive to reach 500GB and one of the first to use the speedy new SATA II interface. In terms of how it stores data, though, the Deskstar may be among the last of its kind, as drive manufacturers begin to approach the limits of how densely they can pack data using today's standard recording technology. Demand for greater capacity continues to rise due in large part to a growing need for music and video storage on PCs and consumer electronics devices."</i><br /><br /><img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/Deskstar7K500.jpg" /><br /><br />Yikes! I'd love to see this in a USB 2.0/Firewire enclosure! :drinking: <br /><br />The days of being forced to use those small 200GB drives seem to be over.

Lee Yuan Sheng
03-30-2005, 06:27 PM
Not with the prices of these drives, I don't think so.

Philip Colmer
03-30-2005, 06:30 PM
Up to 56 hours of HDTV! :rock on dude!:

It is interesting to see from the article, though, that they are still predicting 1TB of desktop storage in the not too distant future ... boy, backing up these beasts is going to become next to impossible :-(. You can RAID them up to provide the resiliency but that isn't going to help with a disaster like fire or theft.

I wonder what the performance of this drive is going to be like. It doesn't mention in the article but I assume that because it is SATA II, it also supports command queuing.

--Philip

Jonathon Watkins
03-30-2005, 06:47 PM
... boy, backing up these beasts is going to become next to impossible :-(. You can RAID them up to provide the resiliency but that isn't going to help with a disaster like fire or theft.

That's what I do. I run two SATA 180Gb drives in a RAID 1 configurations. The drives are relatively cheap, so the peace of mind is worth it. Bring on the high density DVD drives! :?