I just read up on that. Apparently the 6tb drives use helium to reduce friction allowing MORE platters to be installed. The 1.25tb per platter is apparently still there, they are just finding ways to put more platters down.
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Seagate begins rolling out 8TB 'customer development' HDDs
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I just read up on that. Apparently the 6tb drives use helium to reduce friction allowing MORE platters to be installed. The 1.25tb per platter is apparently still there, they are just finding ways to put more platters down.
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Platters over 500GB scare me because at that point the data density is soo high you need heavy ECC just for normal operation.
Not to mention the extreme tolerances for the heads and arms.
Moving a drive like that at all while the arm is out guarantees damage, you just don't see the damage done because of the of the ECC.
Not to mention the extreme tolerances for the heads and arms.
Moving a drive like that at all while the arm is out guarantees damage, you just don't see the damage done because of the of the ECC.
I meant mainly that 8TB is a lot of data to lose it. When you get a drive like that then you have to consider this drive will one day fail and you lose all. If you have space in the PC/NAS then better is to use more smaller drives in RAID just because you have some copy ( and depends from RAID also can run faster ). I doubt if I decide on a drive like that but if I do then for sure I will buy at least 2 drives to set RAID1.
I can't see details of these drives but if they're designed for consumer market then expect that they're not prepared for 24/7 work. In my experience Seagate consumer grade drives are not really solid if you run them 24/7. Server series are fine but cost much more.
Latest series that I like is WDC Purple. Will see what I say in half year work in NAS.
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I doubt it. They'd probably rather back up just one step (full-height, 8 platters) rather than two steps (5.25")
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I doubt it. They'd probably rather back up just one step (full-height, 8 platters) rather than two steps (5.25")
They could always go back to 3.5" half-height drives
Or re-create the quantum bigfoot drives with newer tech at a 5.25" 1/3 height drive :-D.
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They could always go back to 3.5" half-height drives
That's what we have right now, minus some mm around the sides, because hardly anybody actually builds cases and bays at the thirds...
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I thought modern 3.5" hard drives were considered to be 1/3 height, I could be wrong in the respect. I'm probably confusing 5.25' hard drives that were 1/3, half and full heights.
edit: I completely forgot that half height is what a floppy drive is for 3.5" or 5.25" So now i feel like an idiot lol.
edit: I completely forgot that half height is what a floppy drive is for 3.5" or 5.25" So now i feel like an idiot lol.
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As usual, you are right and your critics are wrong. There were some half-height (1.5" tall) 3.5" hard disks, including this 30MB Miniscribe 8438. Skip to 00:20 to watch the excitement of the external optical Track 0 sensor in operation.
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I'd rather have 10 3.5" DSED 2880 KiB floppy drives in RAID
Wouldn't be much bigger, after all 
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Incredible.
I remember the first print ad that I saw for the first 1GB HDD, was $2000. This was around 1990 or so. Like OP says, haven't filled up my 1TB HDD yet, not even close.
I remember a print ad in PC Mag back in about 1984-85 for the Winchester hard drive.
All of five (5) megabytes!
$5,000.00.
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I still have a Quantum Bigfoot 2GB 5.25 series Drive, don't ask me what I paid for it LOL
8GB HD, I'll have to have one, just for fun
Don't ask people not to ask
So? How much?
Don't ask people not to ask
So? How much?
Well I'll say this, I got it on sale lol. It rocked at a whopping 16.6 MBps
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Well I'll say this, I got it on sale lol. It rocked at a whopping 16.6 MBps
Faster than my internet
