Posted on 05/17/2010 7:28:12 AM PDT by 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at anandtech.com ...
Samsung First With 20 nanometer-class NAND Chips
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Posted April 19th, 2010 by Brian
Samsung Electronics has just announced that they have started producing 20nm-class NAND chips for use in SD memory cards and embedded solutions. The new process, improving upon a 30nm process, brings better performance and density for storage solutions. A new 32Gb (gigabit) MLC NAND chip adds to Samsung's portfolio of storage solutions.
See #22.....
Toshiba MK2060GSC Launched - Highest Capacity Automotive-Grade Hard Drive
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Cars are getting more tech-savvy every day, and now Toshiba has launched the largest hard drive offering designed to deal with the storage needs and rigors of automotive usage. The Toshiba MK2060GSC offers a 200GB capacity on a single platter with 4200 RPM speed and SATA interface.
While 200GB is nothing when it comes to "regular storage," the MK2060GSC doubles up on the highest capacity drive currently available. Toshiba also touts its quiet operation, shock resistance, reliability and the fact that it can handle altitude variations of -300 (984 feet) to 5,650 (18,537 feet) meters while operating and temps of -30 to 85°C.
Toshiba also announced the MK1060GSC, a 100GB model of the hard drive.
Toshiba pretty much owns this little slice of the hard drive market, shipping a worldwide total of 14 million automotive-grade hard drives to date. That's good for a 75% market share based on 2009 shipments. With cars increasingly offering entertainment and navigation systems there's a good chance Toshiba is handling the storage.
Availability
Toshiba's MKxxGSC series will be available in the third quarter of 2010 for industrial distribution and OEMs.
Specifications for the WD Caviar Green (Advanced Format) SATA internal hard drives
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I'd love to have enough drive space to eventually keep all of my DVDs (and eventually Blu Ray discs), at least the main features, at full quality on a hard drive, so I can dispense with using physical media altogether except as a backup.
Exploring WD's Advanced Format HD Technology
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Friday, February 26, 2010 - by Joel Hruska in Storage
Western Digital recently began to ship a new series of Caviar hard drives that included the company's Advanced Format technology. The new Caviar Green models are nearly identical to their standard brethren, but offer double the cache (64MB instead of 32MB at 1-2TB) and have a different model number. A WD10EARS is an Advanced Format drive; a WD10-EADS is a 'normal' drive. WD isn't marketing Advanced Format much at the moment, but it's important to understand what the technology is and how it works, particularly if you're still running Windows XP.
Understanding Advanced Format
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GPT fdisk (consisting of the gdisk and sgdisk programs) is a text-mode partitioning tool for Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, and Windows that works on Globally Unique Identifier (GUID) Partition Table (GPT) disks, rather than on the more common (through 2009) Master Boot Record (MBR) partition tables. If this sounds interesting to you, then read on (or skip straight to the "Obtaining GPT fdisk" link if you don't need the GPT pep talk). If you don't know what a GPT is, be sure to read the first section!
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The emergency disks I know of that include GPT fdisk are:
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SANS DIGITAL HDDRACK5 5-Bay IDE / SATA Hard Drive Organizing Rack
Looks like you can plug in an old 20 pin power supply....
See links above for Gadgets...like #30.
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Hard Drives to reach 3TB in 2010?
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Egad, I remember NOT THAT MANY years ago when my tech-cousin and
I would marvel at the falling price of hard drive storage.
We just about freaked out when you could finally get a 1 GB drive
for $1000.
I really like the Caviar Green 1TB (64MB cache, 5400RPM) drives. They seem to run much, much cooler and the speed in a small raid 0 is phenomenal.
When SSD comes down again I plan on getting one to use for my boot drive.
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