Computerworld - Seagate Tuesday released its highly anticipated 3TB desktop hard disk drive, the 3.5-in Barracuda XT, thus eliminating the need to purchase extra hardware or software to overcome the previous 2.1TB drive barrier.
Last spring, Seagate had said it would ship its first 3TB HDD, the Constellation ES, by the end of 2010. That drive, for data center servers. has yet to ship.
Western Digital came out with its first 3TB internal desktop drive in January, the Western Digital Caviar Green. Western Digital had its own workaround for the 2.1TB limitation: a HighPoint Rocket 620 internal half-height SATA card, which it ships with the 3TB drive. The card has two SATA 3.0 ports and handles the emulation, if needed, to allow software to work with the larger 3TB hard drive.
Unreal… that’s 3 million megabytes! I can remember when I thought my 300MB HDD was huge!
First drive: A 10Mb, 130Msec seek, 5 1/4″ drive bought at the Computer Faire in SF in 1980 I believe it was…
After doing some research, I have discovered that there is more than 3TB of pr0n on the internet. So I need a bigger drive. And some lotion.
Isn’t that 3 thousand MB (3072 to be more accurate)(not 3 Million?)
[3,000 MB is 3GB. - ed.]
#5,
Was that an Atari Drive?
I paid only $500 for mine in ’81.
Scott: just what is a TeraByte/Gigabyte/Megabyte?
Wouldn’t 3000 MB be 3000GB’s and not even close to a Terabyte?
Yea, I know. Just laugh.
Ha, ha. I did it too. ==== 3 Gigs.
Bought a 5MB drive for my Tandy TRS80 in 1982 for $2,500. (pre-funny money dollars)
I remember working with a military hard drive, considered very advanced for it’s time. It was a single platter, and had 16 separate heads in fixed positions. Each head was used for one fixed track. Imagine two brake drums with a spinning platter inside, with eight heads attached to each drum. It was about that size and weight. It held something like 5 MB and was used for sonar data. Spun at 300 RPM or something. It was so primitive that it could be opened up for service, such as replacing a head or the platter. Cost a gazillion dollars.
Some day we’ll remember spinning platter technology as we now look at tape drives.
SSD’s are the future with spinning disks as online but archival storage !
My first hard disk was a 5 megabyte drive for my Mac 512KE (with an extra meg and a half of RAM addressable on the controller board.)
Now I’m sitting in my SOHO with 4+TB on three computers and backups are just as important as it was with the 5MB drive.
They just take l-o-n-g-e-r.
One of the weirder devices I ever saw used for storage was a Huges Aerospace persistent display which worked like a vector graphic CRT that could detect if it was scanning over a segment that had previously been written on.
Two different write thresholds for 0 or 1 and a third for reading.
It could read at full speed, write at half speed and had no moving parts; though the phosphor degraded over time.
Never mind what it was for, but if you guessed this was put together by spook propeller-heads for Howard Huges himself you win a Cupie Doll.
#31
That makes sense. Basically, that’s how the Image Orthicon video camera worked. The difference was that the “data” came from a lens, not from phosphors.
All you kids with your fancy 5MB hard drives… back in my day I had paper tape! had to read it with a teletype! 150 Baud! Had miles of the stuff and we liked it! OK, I was only 10 at the time… but it was a PDP-8e that dad bought at a hamfest (and “borrowed” the teletype from work). Somehow it was really easy for me to program, maybe because it seemed so real, actually seeing the dots punched out on the paper.
Ready–you reminded me of my first computer: punch card encyclopedia from Britannica. My Dad was in the AF and really into computers==the FIRST GENERATION. After using the nail to do my mechanical sorts, I kinda lost interest for a few decades until I got my first computer at work. 100 miles from Silicon Valley and the Computer Revolution was fully established before I noticed it==and I’ve been conceptually clueless ever since.
Armies invade the Middle East for no real changes, but Twitter brings revolution. Who saw that how long ago?
I don’t get why this is news. I bought an external three T drive months ago.
This is not a problem if you are using the right chips and the right OS. 64 not 32
Ahh…
RLL and MFM – Nuff said.
Steve Jobs has one, in a really fat iPod. He has every song ever recorded stored on it, all pirated.
The real question is: does it blend?
#34 I think this is news because it the first 3Tb drive to work on older computers and older OS’s.
First HD was a 120 MB one in a dandy Tandy 486 25 computer. My wife said “careful you’re going to break it”. She was right and it was a wonderful learning experience fixing it. 3 TB ought to be just right for storing BD movies eh. All of a sudden lossless is more practical than mp3, BD is more practical than DVD, and the march goes on.
# 9 Uncle Dave said, “Apple came out with a 5 MByte hard disk. It was heaven!”
Yeah. I got a similar story except my 5MB were running CP/M and DOS. I think it was 1981 and I spent something like $3500 for that thing. My wife went ballistic. But, the reason I’m posting is because yours made me think: Considering how my income has changed since then (and completely ignoring inflation), that was as insane as me going out today and buying a 50 MB SD card for $35K !!! No wonder she divorced me.
Next: We discuss how, when my neighbors complained about the late night noise from my Epson 9-pin dot matrix printer, I went out and bought my first laser printer. That would be ex-wife #2…
#29 – Dallas, I couldn’t agree more. SSDs make my nipples hard.