200 GB Per Disk: Toshiba Leads 2.5" Hard Drive Storage Density

[zatoicchi]

Irvine (CA) - Toshiba has upgraded its 2.5" hard drive series with a new 400 GB model. The total capacity is 20% less than what Toshiba’s rivals are currently offering, but Toshiba has the edge in terms of storage density: While the 500 GB 2.5" drives use three 167 GB disks, Toshiba achieves 400 GB with just two 200 GB disks. These are impressive numbers if we are considering the fact that 200 GB per disk was widely used in 3.5" drives just last year.

Toshiba’s announcement is yet another indication that hard drives may remain the mainstream storage technology of choice for several years. Perpendicular magnetic recording appears to have enough room to fend off the advances of flash memory and SSD devices with more storage capacity for the price. Toshiba is now offering a 200 GB-per-disk 5400 rpm hard drive that is limited to 400 GB, but easily could expand to 600 GB, which is about the mainstream storage capacity offered in today’s mainstream desktop PCs. Toshiba also announced a 7200 rpm 320 GB drive.

200 GB Per Disk: Toshiba Leads 2.5" Hard Drive Storage Density

[anon]

every time more capacity in the same, or even less, physical space.

[Aurion]

"These are impressive numbers if we are considering the fact that 200 GB per disk was widely used in 3.5" drives just last year."

Technology OWNZ

[zatoicchi]

bigger gigs also means bigger prices..

[anon]

bigger prices..

wait a while before buying them do so when a PB-sized drive is out

[Aurion]

wait a while before buying them do so when a PB-sized drive is out

LOL anon,I think when a PB comes out,that 500GB HDD would be like for $1 on SALES

[anon]

what can we say about 1GB drives from the Windows 95 era, then

[Aurion]

what can we say about 1GB drives from the Windows 95 era, then

LOL that was LAME really some kick a$$ hardware pieces put together in a $5 pc (if u want to get a bit retarded)

[anon]

really some kick a$$ hardware pieces put together in a $5 pc (if u want to get a bit retarded)

LOL But that kind of PCs are really good for download-boxing ... with a bigger HDD of course

[Aurion]

yeah but maybe the download would stuck up or gives "Not Responding" since such a PC is slow & weak as Hell

[anon]

"Not Responding" since such a PC is slow & weak as Hell

Use uTorrent for torrenting and Wget for Windows for direct downloads Minimal resource usage ftw

[Aurion]

nah,for second option I would prefere to use IDM since its really fast & sucks the whole bandwith in ur line

[anon]

OK, but tried running it in a 486? Wget is command line so you can just run

wget.exe http://www.example.com/somefile.zip

, minimize the window and there's your download I guess this way is more resource-friendly for extremely low-end computers :)

[Aurion]

I guess this way is more resource-friendly for extremely low-end computers :)

LOL mine aint,so I wont need to use that,anyway,thanks for the tip