Tuesday, June 19th 2007
Samsung launches terabyte drive
Samsung has become the third major hard drive manufacturer to hit the 1TB barrier with a 3.5" hard drive, following in the footsteps of Hitachi and Seagate - although it manages to achieve a greater density than either of those two. The 1TB F1 series drive, as it will be called, spins at 7,200 rpm using three platters of 334GB, giving it a density of 241 Gb/square inch. Seagate's equivilent has four 250GB platters giving it a density of 205 Gb/square inch, whilst Hitachi has the lowest density on its 1TB drive, using five platters of 200GB giving a density of 144 Gb/square inch. Samsung's recommended price for the 1TB F1 drive is $400, with the drive presumably going on sale almost immediately.
Source:
TG Daily
18 Comments on Samsung launches terabyte drive
Not a bad price really. I think the 750s are around 200 usd right now. Thanks Jimmy
:)
Like Jimmy, I'd have a number of OSes. I'd partition to 3 primary partitions, then a number of logical partitions. Primary partitions for Windows XP, Windows Vista (possibly), and documents. The others I'd end up using for linux distros, or messing with MacOSx86 or something similar, I'd imagine.
I think once you have the space, you'll end up feeling the need to fill it up to its entirety.
At first, my 120GB was enough, but recently, I've been buying games, trying new distros, and the space has filled up quickly. Too quickly.
Besides... 32MB cache? Large capacity? Probably some pretty good transfer speeds?
If it wasn't for the SATA-II and drive speed, this thing would have "Server" written all over it.
I do have 2 enters though. And an eject! :laugh: