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| Author | Gordon Kelly |
| Published | 27th Jul 2009 |
Comments for WD Ships First 750GB & 1TB 2.5in HDDs
Andrew Violet said on 27th July 2009
Gordon said on 27th July 2009
@Andrew Violet - agreed. 9.5mm will offer more flexibility.
xbrumster said on 27th July 2009
when will HDD firms actually give you 1TB to store data on instead of 960GB ish
MadMacs said on 27th July 2009
Am I right to guess that only rather old laptops will support 12.5mm 2.5" drives? I'm yet to have a modern laptop pass me by which would seem to support a 12.5mm height drive. I guess maybe some Dell XPS/Alienware or Panasonic Toughbooks may support them due to the extra bulk they carry?
Prem said on 27th July 2009
A technological (is that a word?) achievement.
However, is it of any use? 1Tb laptop = nightmare to back up. The rest of the computing world is not really geared up to deal with this e.g. copy 1Tb over wi-fi, or running AV scans, etc.
Anyone with a 1Tb laptop drive, which they cannot back up effectively over wi-fi or usb, is tempting fate - surely???!!!!
MrGodfrey said on 27th July 2009
No 1TB Playstation 3 yet then? :P
MadMacs said on 27th July 2009
@ xbrumster : You're probably aware but just incase I'll say it anyway, but it's all to do with the decimal and binary way in which the data capacity of the drive is measured. A HDD vendor tends measures the capacity in decimal units, whereas Windows is coded to read the drive in binary units. Numbers and me don't get along so that's about the best I can put it.
Exactly why Microsoft can't work in decimal and vise-versa for the vendors isn't something I can answer, lol :)
Andrew Violet said on 27th July 2009
@Shaun It is very common for manufactures to round 1024 as 1000, on smaller drives eg 100GB this isn't such a problem however at larger capacities this does become exaggerated, to the point where its a matter of 50GB or more, which is not insignificant. I think its more the principle than anything, since I doubt anyone will fill up a 1TB to within 50GB.
Tony Walker said on 30th July 2009
Currently using (well once this 300gb copy has finished) 1.3Tb of data on a 2Tb RAID 1 drive - on of the WD ones TR reported on from a while back.
Actual proper byte/kb/mb/gb/tb capacity is reported as 1.81Tb (2,000,390,512,640 bytes when I open the properties for the drive)
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They are 12.5 mm not 9.5mm, once 9.5mm drives are here then its time to celebrate since it will mean they can be put in mainstream laptops and dare I say it... ...netbooks (ATM upgrade only but 1TB is 1TB)