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Seagate has launched the world's first 5 TB 2.5" hard disk drives (HDDs). However, they won't fit in most laptops:
The new Seagate BarraCuda 2.5" drives resemble the company's Mobile HDDs introduced earlier this year and use a similar set of technologies: motors with 5400 RPM spindle speed, platters based on [shingled magnetic recording (SMR)] technology with over 1300 Gb/in2 areal density, and multi-tier caching. The 3 TB, 4 TB and 5 TB BarraCuda 2.5" HDDs that come with a 15 mm z-height are designed for external storage solutions because virtually no laptop can accommodate drives of that thickness. Meanwhile, the 7 mm z-height drives (500 GB, 1 TB and 2 TB) are aimed at mainstream laptops and SFF desktops that need a lot of storage space.
Seagate has also launched a 2 TB shingled solid-state hybrid drive (SSHD) with 8 GB of NAND cache and a 128 MB DRAM cache buffer. The 1 TB and 500 GB versions also have 8 GB of NAND and 128 MB of DRAM. These are the first hybrid drives to use shingled magnetic recording.
Seagate press release (for "mobile warriors" only).
(Score: 1) by Francis on Thursday October 27 2016, @12:25AM
Ah, this chestnut again. I take it you're not aware that nobody ever said that at the time. They were referring to the break up of the first 1mb into 640kb of low mem and the rest being separated. They did it at the time because they lacked the address space for all of it. And yes, at the time, 640kb of low mem was enough for anybody, it just required some hackery at times to get things loaded into high and extended memory by the end of the DOS era.
In this case, if you're using a laptop and you're needing more than 1.2tb of space, you're very much in the minority and you're certainly going to want to back that stuff up even more regularly than usual. More likely, if you need that much data you're going to be using a desktop and have options for RAID in place.
I suppose there's somebody out there that needs more than that space for a laptop, but it's crazy to suggest that there's a market for that at this time. Eventually, I'm sure people will need that, but that's not going to be for years. Even a large game is less than 25gb in most cases and they tend to destroy laptops with the excessive heat.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday October 27 2016, @12:45AM
While my primary desktop has been happy with 300GB for quite some time, my new pro laptop has a 4k screen and all the oomph to do some 4k video or 3D editing. Those files do take an enormous amount of space. How many people really need that much storage? few. How many people will buy the biggest anyway, just in case they want to backup all their useless "this is my appetizer, in 4k because my phone can do it" video? More than should...
(Score: 1) by Francis on Thursday October 27 2016, @01:18AM
In other words, you didn't actually read my post and would rather post some nonsense.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday October 27 2016, @04:18PM
Or you have no clue about the growth of storage requirements and the hoarding people do.
My first 1G drive seemed huge, but barely held a CD's worth of data.
My first 40G drive was enormous, but only fit so many games after a while, and not too many HD videos.
My current 300G drives are gigantic, but it turns out you need more than 10% of that for each AAA game...
So, is there a market for a 2TB drive? Sure, because that will seem only so-so in 3 to 5 years when 4k videos and 250G games are the norm.
Back to my original comment: 640GB ought to be enough for anyone... right?
(Score: 3, Informative) by Geotti on Thursday October 27 2016, @04:26AM
Ok, so just the Vienna Symphonic Library [vsl.co.at] alone weighs over 960GB. Komplete [native-instruments.com] requires another 155 gigs, add up a few sample archives and other instruments and plugins and you're at well over 1.5TB just for your production rig. Then, of course, you need space to for recordings, conversions, your files, etc. And this is just music.
What if you do Music, Video, DTP and 3D (which is not that uncommon)? What, if you also need Matlab & Co., several IDEs and a few virtual machines?
If I could fit all of that on a laptop, I'd be one happy camper... Unfortunately, Apple fucked me over by eliminating the optical bay and any ability to add a second drive, so my next laptop will probably be a hackbook pro that does have space for a second (and maybe a third and fourth "drive").
Oh and I know enough people that have a multi-terabyte video and/or music collection, be it for on-stage or home purposes.