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| james_s:
Have you looked at used drives? I haven't bought anything under 1TB in years and the only 1TB drives I have bought are SSDs. The last several hard drives I've bought are 8TB and I'd have liked to have gone larger but that's the current sweet spot. The main thing I use bulk storage for these days is video and backups. There is no market for spinning drives under 2TB anymore. |
| james_s:
--- Quote from: Berni on April 26, 2022, 05:20:58 pm ---Yeah disks are getting pretty big. I guess the point is that these days making a 100GB disk is just as difficult as making a 1TB one, so they might as well make those. They probably stopped manufacturing the old bigger disk heads, so if they are using the new tiny fine heads and platters they might as well use the capacity. More dense data also makes the drive faster because one rotation brings more data bits past the head. Id say if you want low capacity drives for use with adapters try using SSDs, they are commonly available even under 100GB and when you don't care about capacity you can more easily spring for a more reliable enterprise grade SLC flash ones. --- End quote --- Most series of drives use the same platters/heads, so a 1TB version will have a single platter with one head, a 2TB will have heads on both sides of the platter, the 4TB model will have two platters and so on. The smallest drive offered will be one side of a single platter using whatever tech is used in the largest. |
| SiliconWizard:
We have to wonder what century the OP is living in. ;D |
| DiTBho:
--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on April 26, 2022, 05:50:53 pm ---We have to wonder what century the OP is living in. --- End quote --- One year ago, I didn't have the money, but I was tempted to buy a restored Alfa Romeo 6C (1929/1930), hence I bought the dead corpse of a "Car" made in in 1873, well ... "Car" ... it's more the corpse of an horse-drawn carriage with three wheels in which someone tried to insert an experimental internal combustion engine, but which in 1885 inspired the Benz-Motorwagen, the first car to go into production with an internal combustion engine. Talking about internal combustion, I have a ***copy (it's a copy of the copy of the copy of the original, bought on eBay) of the manifest of the first experiment done in 1826 with internal combustion of a hydrogen and oxygen mixture. Nobody believed it would work. And next to that manifest, on the same wall of the garage where I am trying to restore (rebuild? ... many parts are rotten or missing, it's a disaster) the "motor tricycle", I have a copy of the original manifest published in 1876 for Statue of Liberty of New York, before it was installed, when news paper were excited to announce some new great stuff, the navy was transporting all pieces by ship from Europe, the locals in New York thought about how to build the base on which to install the iron-lady. About cars and monuments, I think I live in the 19th century, while about computers, I think I live between the 20th and the 21th century, specifically around 1972 and 2009 :o :o :o |
| mariush:
What's wrong with 250 / 256/ 480 / 500 / 512 / 960 GB SATA SSDs? They also still make 16/32/64 GB 44 pin IDE SSDs using MLC flash memory (44 pin = ide for laptops, easily converted to regular IDE) Not even gonna mention 4 GB / 8 GB / 16 GB / 32 GB SATA DOM SSDs for thin clients. |
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