500GB drives have arrived!!

[balilu]

Larger Drives have finally arrived

Hitachi have got a new 500GB hard drive on the market, images of which have shown up at Akiba in Japan.

The drive is branded Deskstar, as you'd expect, and is Parallel ATA, rather than SATA. However, there is also a SATA II version which appears here.

It's great that they released an IDE Version because of those who have old servers and don't want to ugprade the motherboard just because an IDE Version of the hdd isn't available.

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Source: Bit-Tech

My opinion is that 500GB drives aren't needed for home users accept for those who do alot of Video Editing and those who have servers. I also think that HDD Manufacturers should focus on speed rather than larger capacity at the moment.

Found this on sale over @ PC Next Day

 

[FragTek]

Not bad... We should start seeing 1tb 5.25" hd's here pretty soon too.

 

[balilu]

if you look closely at the link from PC Next Day it's said to be SATA II but NCQ isn't mentioned if NCQ doesn't exist on the drive it kinda sucks

 

[NickS]

I thought all SATAII drives had NCQ..it was native for "II." Anyway, I've known of this for like 2 weeks lol, latest issue of Maximum PC had this on the front cover. ^^@ Hitachi, great job. I'm verry happy with my drive, extremely quiet, gd performer.

 

[balilu]

just checked it has NCQ and also Seagate & Maxtor announced 500GB and some other HDDs

 

[Dav0s]

so is this one 5 1/4"??

 

[balilu]

no it's a normal 3.5" drive

 

[JN]

Even tho its normal size, it looks frikkin huge!

 

[NickS]

Only cos of the raised top, to me it looks just like mien .

 

[ionicle_old]

i have a 200 gig but its gettin filled up really quickly, i might consider one of theese...

 

[FalconFX]

i have a 200 GIG and i am not able to fill it so i think that there is realy no use (even for an advanced) user to realy get the Drive full. Nevertheless, for servers it will do a great job,

 

[Dav0s]

but ionicle stores his music in wma lossless format, what an idiot

 

[FalconFX]

but ionicle stores his music in wma lossless format, what an idiot

lol that would be to funny... if i would do that i would probably need like a terrabyte for my music.

 

[NickS]

but ionicle stores his music in wma lossless format, what an idiot

Dave what the fuck is with you being so mean to Ionicle?!

If you have space to burn do so!

You don't have to call the person an IDIOT? How about I call you an idiot for compressing all your music to save space while decreasing the quality? Do I? NO.

Lay off Ionicle, will ya? Everyone should.

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I have 3x 80GB HDD's, and Im using about, ~70GB across all of them.

 

[FalconFX]

Dave what the fuck is with you being so mean to Ionicle?!

If you have space to burn do so!

You don't have to call the person an IDIOT? How about I call you an idiot for compressing all your music to save space while decreasing the quality? Do I? NO.

Lay off Ionicle, will ya? Everyone should.

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I have 3x 80GB HDD's, and Im using about, ~70GB across all of them.

ahhh we all love IO... even dave does. Dont take everything serious he says

 

[ionicle_old]

well nice to know someone dont just humor me lol... and in this case i have to agree with nick lol

 

[JN]

I don't know how anybody could be mean to Ionicle...his avatar just makes me go

lol

I'm sure Dave is just being 'himself'...he called me a dudette last night, so i called him a tosser.

 

[ionicle_old]

I don't know how anybody could be mean to Ionicle...his avatar just makes me go

lol

I'm sure Dave is just being 'himself'...he called me a dudette last night, so i called him a tosser.

rofl!:worship: :worship: :worship: :worship: :worship:

 

[FalconFX]

I don't know how anybody could be mean to Ionicle...his avatar just makes me go

lol

I'm sure Dave is just being 'himself'...he called me a dudette last night, so i called him a tosser.

lol what da hell is a dudette ?

 

[ionicle_old]

a femail dude i think... lmao