WTF is up with HD manufactures?

[The Grim Ninja]

Jan 5th 2007 - Hitachi breaks 1TB hard drive barrier
http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/hitac...th-7k1000/

Now, here we are, 17 months later. 1TB drives are still the largest available desktop hard drive. 17 months! Doesn't it seem like we should be hitting 3TB by now? They have 2 platter 640GB HDs, the 1TB drives were 4 platter, shouldn't we at least have 1.3TB now?

I understand there's a push toward SSD, but those things suck at the moment. (price/performance/capacity)

I'm getting rather impatient...

[Paul F.]

Hey, some technologies have a "plateau" that's tough to get past...

Like the PPC and 3ghz, for example...


Hopefully we get past it before too long.

I would love to put two 1.5tb drives in a server at work!

[mattkime]

there must not be much of a market for it. its pretty impressive that the largest drives on the market can be had for less than $200. then again, redundant solutions are better - http://www.netgear.com/Products/Storage/...VPlus.aspx

[The Grim Ninja]

[quote Paul F.]Hey, some technologies have a "plateau" that's tough to get past...
But they *seem* to have already passed it...

Remember the "Get Perpendicular" video from a while back?

And they have HD platters at 320GB or more, they just need to put the stuff together. I understand that it's difficult to make things smaller/faster/bigger/ect... but 17 months!

At least AMD has the courtesy to lie to their customers about new-coming products...

[Carthaigh]

How about an internally redundant drive? The drive could work internally like a RAID1. You could configure a single drive as a 1TB or a 500GB redundant drive. I would buy that.

[MacMagus]

Data-density is up. It's just manifesting in the 2.5-inch drive market right now.

[vision63]

Well they'd better get it together before you kick their dragging butts.

[space-time]

[quote Carthaigh]How about an internally redundant drive? The drive could work internally like a RAID1. You could configure a single drive as a 1TB or a 500GB redundant drive. I would buy that.
what's "redundant" in such a drive? the motor that spins the platters is dead: all data is lost. The logic board is dead; all data is lost. The case is not sealed anymore and dust gets in: all data is lost. To have a truly redundant drive, you need two drives packaged together. That is 2 sealed compartments, 2 motors, 2 separate reading arms/heads, 2 logic boards, 2 interfaces. It's like having 2 drives attached together with duct tape. I see no point in such a setup.

[ztirffritz]

Redundancy and security is where their efforts are going to now. Seagate just had a drive approved for use by the NSA because it has on-board encryption that meets their standards. I have Seagate stock because I'm convinced that there will be another flood of drive purchases. When people loose 1TB of data, they will start to realize that they should always by 2 drives at the same time.

[hal]

geez.... MUST be a kid of this new age...

to think that an industry tries it's very hardest to come up with the newest, greatest thingie... why on earth would you expect them to be able to improve so quickly? DO they suddenly get ideas that didn't exist a year ago?