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With the announcement of a 5TB drive by 2010, it got me thinking. Why hasn't there been any 5.25" hard drive lately? Recentyly I found an ancient 1GB Micropolis hard drive that was 5.25" full height and had 6 platters.
Going with upcoming 5TB 3.5" drive, a single 5" platter might be able to do 10TB so a 5.25" half height could do around 30 and full height 60TB.
Aside from large space requirement, why not issue large hard drives? A single drive would cost less than putting a few smaller drives together since you'd need 1 controller board and not as much metal total.
In the meanwhile I got to see if I can find my monster 50 pounds 1/5 feet by 2 feet by 3 feet hard drive and figure out theoretical TB size with modern 1TB per in^2 technology.
Going with upcoming 5TB 3.5" drive, a single 5" platter might be able to do 10TB so a 5.25" half height could do around 30 and full height 60TB.
Aside from large space requirement, why not issue large hard drives? A single drive would cost less than putting a few smaller drives together since you'd need 1 controller board and not as much metal total.
In the meanwhile I got to see if I can find my monster 50 pounds 1/5 feet by 2 feet by 3 feet hard drive and figure out theoretical TB size with modern 1TB per in^2 technology.