News Seagate unveils 1TB hard drive platters

Buy samsung -> claim their work as your own

 

wow so wait doesnt this also mean higher densiter laptop sized platters?

 

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

 

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?

 

USE BACKUPS AND MANY OF THEM

 

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.

 

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 ;-)

 

Hopefully you're not using Microsoft Windows.