Two makers of perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) platters for hard disk drives (HDDs) said recently they had started to produce platters with leading capacities that enable creation of 1TB hard drives for desktops as well as up to 320GB drives for mobile computers.
Both Fuji Electric Group and Showa Denko K.K. (SDK) this week said they had begin shipments of 334GB platters for 3.5” hard drives as well as 160GB platters for 2.5” HDDs to their customers. The 334GB platters are already utilized by Samsung’s SpinPoint F1 hard disk drives, but unfortunately it is unclear whether 160GB platters are already used by the companies’ customers.
Potentially, 160GB 2.5” platters allow creation of HDDs for notebooks with 320GB capacities, which is 70GB more compared to currently shipping drives from companies like Western Digital. Still, makers of hard drives usually do not format platters to maximum capacity due to yield reasons.
Mass production of high-capacity platters enable leading producer of hard disk drives to create larger-capacity products, which essentially decreases pricing of currently shipping products and allows end-users to store more software, media and other types of data.
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Come on, NOONE needs such capacities in a notebook.
These guys are totally missing market demand.
Persons that use software that needs such capacities are either using a tower PC anyways (because of the performance needed that notebook still cannot match) or are using external HDD arrays since such amounts of data need to be secured in RAID arrays (RAID5 preferrably).
What the market really needs are higher performing hard drives. 2.5" drives really are lagging behind with average rotation speed at about only 5000 rpm (most are 5400, then 4200, then 7200).
A HDD with only one of those 160 GB platters would be perfect, since it would allow for 7200 rpm operation easily.
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Date: 06/26/07 01:30:45 PM]
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I don't know much about HDD's, but don't higher density platters mean higher performance?
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Posted by: MonkRX
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Date: 07/01/07 09:39:18 PM]
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Xbit has become more interested in hype (fake "shipping" announcements) than actual products.
Xbit has already reported Seagate's shipment of 1 TB drives (and unfortunately other news outlets have quoted Xbit) when Seagate has said they won't ship till the third quarter! Has Samsung quietly shipped too, before the platters have become available?
Xbit - you're losing credibility fast with people who know hard drives. Or perhaps you've already lost it. Anyway, have fun with fiction!
Pravda lives, I guess. :-)
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Posted by: Fed Up with Xbits Loose Reporting
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Date: 06/26/07 06:02:48 PM]
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By the time 1 Terabyte Harddisk ship, we all LOST 50 GB :((. 1.000.000.000.000 / 1024 / 1024 / 1024 = 950,xxx GB
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Date: 06/26/07 06:36:53 PM]
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