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WD HDD Industry Will Be Supply Constrained Due to Thailand Flooding
Ultra_Magnus:
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--- Quote from: kitamesume on November 17, 2011, 09:06:09 PM ---^ i don't retire old drives tho, i use them as some sort of portable HDDs, well giving them their own case and the SATA-to-USB hubs should do the trick, even if they kick the bucket... well its something like an extra large flash drive =P
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I still have a few IDE drives sitting around, though a few came from modded XBoxes. lol What to do with those? Yeah, scrap them.
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I still have the 2gb IDE hard drive from my first computer, thought it was huge at the time... how times change.
Have a bunch of full height* 5gb SCSI drives too, will probably take them apart for the magnets in them some day. Most hard drives have crazy powerful magnets in them.
*For the kids that don't know what I am talking about, most hard drives today are what used to be called "half height".
AnimeJanai:
Modern 3.5 inch hard drives for the ATAPI EIDE and SATA specifications are less than half-height. A half-height drive would take up almost all the vertical space in a half-height drive bay in a typical desktop PC case. A full-height hard drive has a front bezel that is almost three inches vertical.
Pentium100:
I have a 5.25" Full Height SCSI drive (~1GB). If you do not know how big this drive is, put two CD drives one on top of another.
As for this shortage - yea, it sucks, but hopefully I can get by without needing new hard drives and LTO2 tapes do not become more expensive.
Freedom Kira:
I have to wonder how much capacity they can stuff into a drive of that (physical) size with today's data density capabilities.
CharredChar:
--- Quote from: Freedom Kira on November 22, 2011, 07:41:03 AM ---I have to wonder how much capacity they can stuff into a drive of that (physical) size with today's data density capabilities.
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IIRC, its not really worth doing so. Its cheaper to increase the platter density than it is to add more platters for space. Ontop of that, if a single platter goes bad then you arent throwing away good platters when you replace the drive. Plus less parts to go wrong with inside of a drive increases reliability and lowers power consumption. Ontop of RAID, why not just buy multiple drives that takes the same space as a "full size" drive?
Edit: Oh yeah, and those older drives had physically larger platters and reader heads, so they had less platters in the same space anyway. But if you really wanted a guess, Samsung now have 1TB platters, four in their current drives. So maybe 10TBs a "full size" drive?
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