500-Gbyte Drive provides 85 hours of HD! (Do you want it?)

[Sean Mota]

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Disk drive manufacturers have announced plans to begin shipping the first half-Tbyte desktop storage devices, hoping to capitalize in the second half of 2005 on the marketplace's growing hunger for multimedia and large amounts of data.

Both Seagate Technology and Maxtor now say they will hit the half-Tbyte mark in capacity this year, with storage components aimed at the consumer and commercial segments, respectively.

Milpitas, Calif.-based Maxtor will bring the first half-Tbyte storage capacities to the desktop with a new 3.5-inch drive it says will ship in the next quarter.

The drive will run at 7,200 rpm, with a 3.0-Gbyte SATA and ATA 133, and have capacity of up to 500 Gbytes, the company said. The new Maxtor drives are in addition to the company's high-volume OneTouch and OneTouch II products—stand-alone external drives that provide as much as 300 Gbytes of backup and storage capacity.

The 500-Gbyte drive is targeted at the DVR and home entertainment space. Seagate said the drive would have capacity to store 85 hours of high-definition video or 500 hours of standard video.

 

[hbk409]

lacie makes a 1TB drive already

http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?product_code=50489477&pfp=SEARCH

 

[Sean Mota]

Wow what a monster....

 

[Spin]

This is a Half Tb single drive. The lacie is multiple drives in an enclosure running a RAID 0 Array

 

[Mark_AR]

I would consider it as a storage solution *ONLY* if it was able to be backed up to a mirrored drive so that no data would be lost if either the primary or secondary drive failed.

Even in an EXTERNAL box as an add-on device, I would gladly spend hundreds of dollars knowing that my DVR HD movies were safe. You could use a dongle inside the DVR so that you couldn't pack it off to a friends house and hook it to their system. (For the MPAA lurkers)

Otherwise, what good is 85 hours of HD space when the unit fails and you have months/years of saved programs gone in an instant.

 

[gutter]

Congradulation Sean on really keeping us up on HD developments. I feel this is a real one stop shop to know what is going on. You just doubled the value to us members.

 

[Sean Mota]

My pleasure...

 

[Stargazer]

Maybe once hard drives get cheap enough we will see dual hard drives in the electronic deviced to where everything will write to both at once and if one fails and the other hard drive will automatically be available.

 

[rockhard]

Raid 6 security backup software needed uses 20% for overhead but will protect data...

I am using a 250GB SATA Maxtor drive now to double my HDTV PVR recording capacity would love to have a 1/2 TB ...Time of upgrade depends on price per GB ...