Just announced: world's largest 2.5-inch HDD at 320GB

[LondonConsultant]

People may be interested in a couple of latest hard disk drives from Toshiba. They announced 9 new 2.5-inch HDDs today but, for me, the two highlights are:

• MK3252GSX with 320GB, 5400RPM, 8MB buffer - apparently the world's largest 2.5-inch HDD
• MK2049GSY with 200GB, 7200RPM, 16MB buffer

They should be available from November. Full specs etc in the official announcement (you have to copy'n'paste the entire address, not just the highlighted part):
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/sit ... =news_view

[pianowizard]

Sigh, SATA only. All my laptops use PATA!

[Temetka]

I agree. I would love to pick up a pair of the 320GB drives if they were PATA.

Imagine a T41p with 640GB of storage. That would blow peoples minds.

Heck the 180GB I have now seem impressive to most people who seem to only have 60GB or 80GB drives.

If only HDD manufacturers would remember that a ton of users still have PATA machines.

Sigh.

[Robbyrobot]

Imagine a T41p with 640GB of storage. That would blow peoples minds.

Particularly when the HDD fails Maybe other people don't have this problem, but I worry about stuff like that, and the worry increases proportionately with the capacity of the drive. How many people really back up one of these mammoth drives nowadays I gave up trying after HDDs exceeded the 20 GB level.

[qviri]

If only HDD manufacturers would remember that a ton of users still have PATA machines.

A ton of users also still have Pentium M machines, but Intel didn't release a Core 2 version for socket 479, did they?

I think they remember that very well. They probably also realise that the majority of the people willing to spend $500 (probably? I'm guessing) on a hard drive are also people who tend to have the newest and the greatest hardware.

How many people really back up one of these mammoth drives nowadays I gave up trying after HDDs exceeded the 20 GB level.

My back-up "solution" is to copy all the 'small' data and the most important multimedia to each of the machines I have running. The rest of the multimedia is kept only on the big 500 gig hard drive, and I keep a list of these files on the other machines. Of course, synchronising the 'small' data isn't exactly fun.

[Temetka]

I perform regular backups. I have a 2TB RAID 5 Array that I copy everything over to. From there it will get burned to a DL-DVD-R for permanent archival needs. And yes the DVD's are labeled and have indexes so I know what is one them.