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Hitachi hatches a humongous hard drive
Don't ask how a new drive head will result in astonishingly large hard drives. It just works.
By Farhad Manjoo [2007-10-15]
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  • Right

    Just sit tight and enjoy the 4 TB hard drive this stuff'll make possible beginning in 2011.

    Uh huh. Seeing as how most people don't have a ton of money to throw around on new widgets, and how the computer industry seems to favor pricing things sky-high when they first come out, it'll probably be 2020 before someone like me can afford it, if then.

    -- Serai1
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    Monday, October 15, 2007 10:10 AM

  • Huh?

    1TB drives can already be had for around $300. I wouldn't be surprised to see 4TB drives selling for under $100 by 2011. That's hardly out of most folks' budgets.

    -- sunspot
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    Monday, October 15, 2007 11:05 AM

  • Followed by...

    ... the new Windows 2012XPWTFBBQ that *requires* the 4Tb drive.

    -- DerekJ
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    Monday, October 15, 2007 11:09 AM

  • 4 TB of disk space...

    ....might just be enough to store ALL my downloaded Net porn in one convenient device!

    Huzzah for Hitachi! ;)

    --Anonymous
    Monday, October 15, 2007 12:04 PM

  • Hey Ubergeeks...

    Would this be anything like the difference between powertools that are double-insulated (2 prong plug) and similar ones that are grounded (3 prong)?

    No?

    Grounding someting to something else does seem to get rid of static.

    -- SB
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    Monday, October 15, 2007 12:20 PM

  • @sunspot

    How delightful for you that you can plop down $300 on something like this. Most people can't. Since I'm still seeing $150 price tags on drives that are 300 gigs, I'm not holding my breath for the super-duper fancy huge drives to be within my price range within four years.

    -- Serai1
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    Monday, October 15, 2007 12:28 PM

  • @Serai1

    Did it ever occur to you that the introduction of a 4 TD hard drive will drive the cost of that 300 GB drive down?

    Oh and you need a new supplier if your paying that much for a drive. I can see them on CDW (not the cheapest place on the net by a long shot) right now for $90 or less. http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?EDC=974698

    Sun spot was a little off on his price of a 1 TB drive, but he was close.

    http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?EDC=1247372

    10 years ago I paid $3500 for a 100 MHz system with 8 MB of RAM. Last week I spent just over $800 for a 1.8 GHz (DouCore) with 2 GB of RAM. So do us all a favor and stop with the evil computer companies are robbing us blind stuff.

    -- Sinamon
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    Monday, October 15, 2007 12:47 PM

  • I'd prefer a 100GB affordable SSD

    Better than a box of 1TB drives I'd prefer an affordable 100GB SSD or some kind of high speed flash that approaches the speed of an SSD with a new bus speed interface. The time has come to eliminate the disk IO bottleneck. If I need 4TB I'll lash it to an external bus adapter or put it on a GB network wire.

    -- (~~~~)
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    Monday, October 15, 2007 01:44 PM

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