1 Terabyte Drives? [Archive]

yagga

17 Mar 2007, 4:33pm

Anyone have any info on these? ...release dates, price, links, articles, ...

I'm having a hard time finding useful information, and I've just gobbled up another 300GB last weekend! :tongue: :eek:

Thrax

17 Mar 2007, 5:05pm

It's made by hitachi. That's all I know.

yagga

17 Mar 2007, 10:13pm

It's made by hitachi. That's all I know.

All I know is that Hitachi is coming out with one, and Seagate is coming out with one sometime maybe this quarter or this half of the year, maybe.

And I prefer Seagate.

And Maxtor I don't like as much, and also doesn't even have a 750.

And WD doesn't have 750s either.

Leonardo

18 Mar 2007, 12:59am

If you've got to have it right away, WD, I believe makes an external two-drive kit composed of two 500GB drives. The reviews I've seen on it rate it highly.

My HD preferences are in order: Seagate, Hitachi, WD, and Samsung,. I've had too many failures with Maxtor. I've also had problems with Seagates (IDE) working in an older external enclosure, but they've been excellent in internal configurations.

Thrax

18 Mar 2007, 1:40am

I wouldn't trust Hitachi. They bought IBM's HDD division.

Remember the Deathstars?

Leonardo

18 Mar 2007, 1:52am

Yes, I remember the Deathstars. It was a problem with the platter coating that IBM was using. Hitachi revamped the drives - they are now as quiet and fast as the original IBM Deskstars but are dependable and reliable. Thrax, I've been using the Hitachi Deskstars now for a couple years. They are great drives. I much prefer them over WD.

yagga

18 Mar 2007, 5:55am

I wouldn't trust Hitachi. They bought IBM's HDD division.

Remember the Deathstars?

Well fortunately I missed that era, I beleive I entered ma innard geec just a wii bit after word, and now I have a massed a collection of about 2 dozen drives, of which only 2 are retired permanitely due to size and noise. This collection includes WD, Maxtor, and Seagate only, of which I don't need a battle on which is best, if one so begins. All of these were bargains with the exception of my first at $1/gb. It sure is hard to turn down retail boxes of 200gb drives for $19.99! My drives are between 1 and 8 years old and none have messed up on me, with the exception of a 250gb Maxtor that is currently running which seems to lock up opening certain folders, or atleast takes a darn long time to access them. This one is probably going shortly.

The terabyte I was referring to is for one individual drive. I've got space and spending constraints ya know! :) Only 5 3.5" spots for drives after the floppy, a reduction of what I had before my case downsize/prettyize. :(