Read more.The race to reach 3TB is on, and rumours suggest Seagate could be first to market.
Read more.The race to reach 3TB is on, and rumours suggest Seagate could be first to market.
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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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.
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.
6x500GB, 5x600GB or 4x700GB?
6x500GB, that seems very doggy to me, I would hate to see the failure rate for them.
Considering how unreliable Seagate drives have been? I will pass...and wait for the Samsung.
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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Looking back in history....
I used to have a 18 platter 1gig 5 1/4 scsi drive.
Yes it did wobble the case!
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.![]()
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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