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    News - Seagate to usher in 3TB hard drive in 2010

    The race to reach 3TB is on, and rumours suggest Seagate could be first to market.
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    Re: News - Seagate to usher in 3TB hard drive in 2010

    I'd be very keen on buying 3TB drives, ready for my 4 bay NAS, however the idea of 5 platter drives (x 4) would worry me a little...
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    Re: News - Seagate to usher in 3TB hard drive in 2010

    I thought the 2TB disks were kept back until 500GB platters were available to enable 4 platters rather than 5, so you never know.

    Mind you, it seems unlikely that they've got 750GB platters hidden away somewhere, so you're probably right.

    I've just upgraded to a couple of 2TB disks, so I'll be okay for a while hopefully. Got a spare bay now as well, so I can easily drop a 2TB disk in should I ever want to. With that in mind, I doubt I'll be looking at higher capacity disks for at least 2-3 years.

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    Re: News - Seagate to usher in 3TB hard drive in 2010

    Some of the 1.5TB drives were 5-platter, certainly the Seagates IIRC. Then again, I've found they aren't the most reliable drives I've ever had, the firmware issue aside.

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    Re: News - Seagate to usher in 3TB hard drive in 2010

    6x500GB, 5x600GB or 4x700GB?

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    Re: News - Seagate to usher in 3TB hard drive in 2010

    6x500GB, that seems very doggy to me, I would hate to see the failure rate for them.

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    Re: News - Seagate to usher in 3TB hard drive in 2010

    Considering how unreliable Seagate drives have been? I will pass...and wait for the Samsung.

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    Re: News - Seagate to usher in 3TB hard drive in 2010

    The first 3TB drives will be 4x750GB, closely followed by 3x1TB drives and 4x1TB 4TB, my guess by Q4 this year.

    The delay in uplifting the capacity has been the introduction of advanced format which is now well underway with few problems resulting.

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    Re: News - Seagate to usher in 3TB hard drive in 2010

    Quote Originally Posted by gagaga View Post
    The first 3TB drives will be 4x750GB, closely followed by 3x1TB drives and 4x1TB 4TB, my guess by Q4 this year.

    The delay in uplifting the capacity has been the introduction of advanced format which is now well underway with few problems resulting.
    source?

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    Re: News - Seagate to usher in 3TB hard drive in 2010

    Quote Originally Posted by Biscuit View Post
    source?
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    Re: News - Seagate to usher in 3TB hard drive in 2010

    Looking back in history....

    I used to have a 18 platter 1gig 5 1/4 scsi drive.

    Yes it did wobble the case!

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    Re: News - Seagate to usher in 3TB hard drive in 2010

    Quote Originally Posted by Biscuit View Post
    source?
    as he said it's a guess, presumably the source is his brain?

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    Re: News - Seagate to usher in 3TB hard drive in 2010

    He only said the Q4 was a guess

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    Re: News - Seagate to usher in 3TB hard drive in 2010

    It would be really nice to migrate my 8x1TB array to 8x3TB drives. although I think I would also migrate to PERC 6/i cards for RAID-6.

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    Re: News - Seagate to usher in 3TB hard drive in 2010

    MBR will be out of the question for these drive so hopefully it should encourage motherboard MFRs to start shipping EFI models! Obviously it won't be a problem if you don't intend to boot from it though.

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