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Originally Posted by tiger (Post 15532346)

Mech drives will still be around for at least a few more years possibly more. If you look at the actual benchmarks most SSD's are very disappointing in performance and failure levels. SSD has a lot of promise but so far not even close to living up to it. Price is too high, performance gains are not consistent, failure levels on some of these drives are terrible compared to the mech drives and obviously capacity isn't there yet.

It's just a matter of time, man. Just a matter of time. The shock-resistance and size flexibility of SSD will revolutionize computing.

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Originally Posted by uno (Post 15529974)

I've had maxtor, seagate and WD drives all fail on me, but Maxtor seems to fail the most.

I meant to say Western Digital..I always get two confused..:1orglaugh

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Originally Posted by who (Post 15532226)

Where did I see a 5 TB drive for sale, was it newegg?

In a research lab? :) There's no single drive that is 5TB in size, that is shipping anyway. To do that today would require a RAID system with at least a few drives.

2010: the 5TB 3.5in HDD cometh
Hitachi promises 1TB per square inch
By James Sherwood ? Get more from this author
4th July 2008 15:45 GMT
Hitachi has pledged to release a 5TB 3.5in hard drive within two years, and it claims two of the drives will boast enough capacity to store everything in your brain.

According to a report by Nikkei Net, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies will use Current-Perpendicular-to-Plane Giant Magnetoresistance (CPP-GMR) magnetc read heads to achieve the aim. This, the firm claims, will allow its drives to store 1TB of data in every square inch of the recording surface.

Hitachi?s announcement is a step on from a claim it made back in October 2007 that 4TB of storage could become a reality by 2011.

It?s worth noting though that Hitachi?s not the first storage company to promise super-capacity HDDs. Back in August 2007, rival Fujitsu announced that 2.5in disks were its proposed ?patterned medium? for such compact storage. It too plans to have commercial models available by 2010.

Fujitsu's approach uses anodised aluminium to create a pattern of "nanoholes", each holding a portion of magnetic material used to store a single bit of data. The aluminium-oxide surrounding these so-called 'nanoholes' helps magnetically insulate each bit from all the others, preventing one from affecting another, which might lead to data corruption.

Nonetheless, Dr Yoshihiro Shiroishi from Hitachi has claimed that two of its 5TB will together ?provide the same storage capacity as the human brain?.

So, if your memory?s not great, then just buy a couple of 5TB drives from Hitachi and download all your thoughts and memories onto them, before wiping the slate clean and staring afresh with another 10TB of brain capacity.