Hard Drives to reach 3TB in 2010?

Anandtech ^ | 5/10/2010 | Ian Cutress

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Sources close to Seagate roadmaps have leaked the potential of a 3TB SAS drive being released this year.

The quest for storage is almost a never ending saga.  Dubbed the Constellation-ES, the replacement for the Seagate Barracuda-ES, the drive is expected to arrive later this year with a 7200 RPM rotation speed, and a 6Gbit/s SAS interface.  A 1TB version of the 2.5" Barracuda-ES is also expected to arrive around the mid year point.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

prices continue to drop ...Fry's has a WD 1.5 Gig 7200 rpm on sale for < $100.

And so does Newegg:

Western Digital Caviar Green WD15EARS 1.5TB 64MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive - $99.99 Free Shipping*

Word of warning....****

If you're using XP, you will need to do some additional work to make this drive perform correctly. This line of Western Digital drives is the first using their new "Advanced Format," which changes the sector size from 512B to 4KB. The more modern operating systems work fine with this, but Windows XP will not align the sectors correctly.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

fyi

[rwfromkansas]

I haven’t got a new external HD in a year or so. This is amazing.

[dayglored]

> The more modern operating systems work fine with this, but Windows XP will not align the sectors correctly.

There are reports of severe performance degradation in XP, due to misalignment, read/modify/write operations causing missed revolutions of the platter, etc.

I'm running Win7 on my hardware Windows boxes now, but if I were still running XP (other than VMs) I wouldn't use these >2GB drives for anything but archive storage.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Fry's is having their 25th Anniversary sale this weekend and they have at the moment:

WESTERN DIGITAL 1.5TB SERIAL ATA/300 64MB BUFFER HARD DRIVE - WD15EARS

Price: $ 88.00 ***** not sure about the shipping charge.

[downwdims]

They are working on the firmware upgrades to deal with boot drives >2TB.

Imo Spend the extra cash and buy an SSD for your boot drive. It’s the best upgrade i’ve ever done on a machine. Literally boot to usable in 30 seconds. Everything is so Snappy! Srsly I’ve spent 500 dollars on a video card and the $230 I spent on the SSD improved overall system performance WAAAY more drastically.

Boot is an 80GB Intel x-25M. Then I have 2 640 gig WD cav blues. One is Data, the other is Backup. Win 7 AMD P2BE 3Ghz

[apillar]

Heck, I remember when I got my first hard drive installed in an old 286 8Mhz system that I had bought back in the late 80’s. It did not come standard and had to be purchased separately and was about $600 extra. It held a whopping 40MB (of course that was more than enough for anything you needed back then).

[kevkrom]

That’s great and all, but I’m pretty much done with platter drives, regardless of size. I’m far more interested in seeing the capacity of solid-state drives increase and the price come down to more consumer-friendly levels.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I was just reading about the Linux 2 6 34 kernel...:

Linux 2 6 34

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Linux 2.6.34 has been released.

Summary: This version adds two new filesystem, the distributed filesystem Ceph and LogFS, a filesystem for flash devices...

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1.1. Ceph filesystem

Linux-mag article: Ceph: The Distributed File System Creature from the Object Lagoon

IBM Developerworks article: Ceph: A Linux petabyte-scale distributed file system

LWN article: The Ceph filesystem

Ceph is a distributed network filesystem. It is built from the ground up to seamlessly and gracefully scale from gigabytes to petabytes and beyond. Scalability is considered in terms of workload as well as total storage. Ceph is designed to handle workloads in which tens thousands of clients or more simultaneously access the same file, or write to the same directory–usage scenarios that bring typical enterprise storage systems to their knees.

Some of the key features that make Ceph different from existing file systems:

• Seamless scaling: A Ceph filesystem can be seamlessly expanded by simply adding storage nodes (OSDs), and proactively migrates data onto new devices in order to maintain a balanced distribution of data.

• Strong reliability and fast recovery: All data in Ceph is replicated across multiple OSDs. If any OSD fails, data is automatically re-replicated to other devices.

• Adaptive MDS: The Ceph metadata server (MDS) is designed to dynamically adapt its behavior to the current workload. As the size and popularity of the file system hierarchy changes over time, that hierarchy is dynamically redistributed among available metadata servers in order to balance load and most effectively use server resources. Similarly, if thousands of clients suddenly access a single file or directory, that metadata is dynamically replicated across multiple servers to distribute the workload.

Project web site: ceph.newdream.net

Code: (code)

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So Linux is getting ready .........

[Jack Wilson]

I can fill anything they can throw at me!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Man....what with?

[abb]

Not to worry. Microsoft will have a new Office Suite out in no time to sop up the space like biscuits sop up gravy.

[martin_fierro]

Be careful about relying too much on those for backup. Their power supplies suck.

[martin_fierro]

Man....what with?

*cough*pr0n*cough*

[ConservativeMan55]

bttt

[martin_fierro]

Be careful about relying too much on those for backup. Their power supplies suck.

Correction: I was referring to the external drives.

(which work just fine when stripped out of the cheap external case and mounted intenally)

[wizzardude]

yeah, I hate having 2GB drives, too :)

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

That’s what everybody uses external drives for....I thought.

[Sudetenland]

Yeah, back when I bought my first PC (386-25) I had an 80 MB drive and thought to myself “I’ll never fill this up.” LOL.

[corkoman]

Want This.

Dont want to pay more than $350 for this so I must wait. With the SATA 6Gb/s interface and up to 355MB/s read speeds it will allow me to stay alive longer and kill my friends better on Team Fortress2.

priorities!