News Seagate unveils 1TB hard drive platters

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  1. The_Beast

    The_Beast I like wood ಠ_ಠ

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    Buy samsung -> claim their work as your own
     
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  2. HourBeforeDawn

    HourBeforeDawn a.k.a KazeModz

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    wow so wait doesnt this also mean higher densiter laptop sized platters?
     
    HourBeforeDawn, 4 May 2011
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  3. l3v1ck

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    Good. The sooner we get 2TB 2.5" USB powered external drives the better.
     
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  4. Tulatin

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    Yes, yes they would, but they'd probably be in the $99->$129 ballpark though. However with only one platter / one armature, you would think the reliability of the drive would go up drastically.

    That said, this should easily pave the way for 2.5" x 9.5mm 1TB drives. But is that a good idea, really? Putting 931 gigabytes of occasionally irreplaceable data into a drive that's a muscle movement away from death?
     
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  5. The_Beast

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    USE BACKUPS AND MANY OF THEM
     
    The_Beast, 5 May 2011
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  6. Tulatin

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    Telling the average user they need to back up their data often comes as a shock. Do you think people back up their information now with 500/640GB drives becoming common? Hardly. Granted, these people usually have under 500MB of data, but still.

    Beyond that, doing your first full backup of a nearly full 1TB drive is going to hurt, even over Gig-E.
     
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  7. Xir

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    Is there a wy of determining how many platters are inside a drive?
    I've tried to find out about Samsungs 1TB Spinpoint or 1,5TB Spinpoint, but cannot find it in the technical documantation...
    (less platters is less noise/heat while slightly faster ;-)
     
    Xir, 5 May 2011
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  8. JA12

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    Hopefully you're not using Microsoft Windows.
     
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