Samsung Announces Two-Terabyte EcoGreen Hard Drive with the Highest Areal Density

[Per Hansson]

This drive use's 3 platters not 4 to obtain 2TB... thats whats so good about it.


if you put in a 4th then you would get 2.6TB Single drive .. AFAIK 4 platters is the most you can fit in a 3.5 Drive without redesigning it significently. imo they should do just that, release a 2.5/2.6 TB drive... it would win them over some customers simply becouse they have the largest disk.

The first Hitachi 1TB drive was a 5 platter design
So this thing would actually scale to 3335GB

 

[LAN_deRf_HA]

The first Hitachi 1TB drive was a 5 platter design
So this thing would actually scale to 3335GB

Didn't seagate do a 3 tb drive with 6 platters? It could scale to 4 tb then.... would probably be horrible unreliable and have a 19 ms access time.

 

[slyfox2151]

the Seagate drive was an external afaik.... it was not a standard 3.5inch drive...

also samsung isnt hitache, there maybe a few reasons they would not be able to fit 5 platters into the drive without some major mods..... atho imo it would be worth it for samsung to release the first REAL 3tb Drive.