Seagate 1.5TB Hard Drive

bryphotoguy · Jul 13, 2008

Seagate Website

The Mac Pro hits the 6TB mark come August.

MBasile · Jul 13, 2008

hmmmm, half TB for notebooks eh?

cowasaki · Jul 13, 2008

bryphotoguy said:
Seagate Website

The Mac Pro hits the 6TB mark come August.

or 9Tb if you use the two spare SATA ports... 7.5Tb if you just use one of them and stick the 5th drive in the 2nd optical bay!

the8thark · Jul 13, 2008

All of this makes me think of the old days, where I used to say 80MB. I'll never fill that. And look at me now, 100GB and still expanding. I think eventually we'll all be having TB in our computers and having 1 or 2 TB of used space won't be that uncommon.

And thanks for the article. It was anice read.

bryphotoguy · Jul 13, 2008

cowasaki said:
or 9Tb if you use the two spare SATA ports... 7.5Tb if you just use one of them and stick the 5th drive in the 2nd optical bay!

Or 18TB if one daisy chains a few externals together.

cowasaki · Jul 13, 2008

bryphotoguy said:
Or 18TB if one daisy chains a few externals together.

You see that's just getting silly now. But..... you could plug an external 18 drive rack mounted array in and have 27Tb plus the 9 in the pro giving you 36Tb! That should keep time machine going for a few weeks

I just want a 500Gb 7200rpm low power, silent HD with a big cache for my macbook pro. In fact as it is a 17" and will take the taller drives what about a 1Tb laptop drive !

Just finished installing all my software, music, photos etc on the 200Gb drive that came with it and its half full

bryphotoguy · Jul 13, 2008

cowasaki said:
You see that's just getting silly now.

That was the point. I felt the same way about your comment.
If the Mac Pro has to be repaired, the Apple techs will make you remove these spare drives and disconnect them from the 'hidden' SATA ports. Because it takes some work to get to them, I don't consider adding the extra HDs in optical drive bays a feasible method for most people to add extra storage, much like daisy chaining half a dozen externals.

cowasaki · Jul 13, 2008

bryphotoguy said:
That was the point. I felt the same way about your comment.
If the Mac Pro has to be repaired, the Apple techs will make you remove these spare drives and disconnect them from the 'hidden' SATA ports. Because it takes some work to get to them, I don't consider adding the extra HDs in optical drive bays a feasible method for most people to add extra storage, much like daisy chaining half a dozen externals.

I know, but it only takes 10 minutes to fit a drive in the optical bay. I am not going to worry about how long it takes to remove things if it all goes wrong because you would no doubt take the machine apart to remove the drives from the 4 bays and the memory anyway. If you are doing that its not much more of a job

Anyway I am sure 6 Tb would be enough really, I am sure I could just about manage

fleurya · Jul 13, 2008

Aren't there already 500GB notebook drives on the market?? I read about them months ago.

cowasaki · Jul 13, 2008

fleurya said:
Aren't there already 500GB notebook drives on the market?? I read about them months ago.

Yes there is a 500Gb 5K drive on the market using 3 platters so it is not particularly quick. Using only 2 platters increases the aerial density and therefore the transfer speed. Also the 500Gb drive that is out already is thicker than other drives and will only actually fit into the 17" macbook pros

bryphotoguy · Jul 13, 2008

They will also be 7200RPMs as well according to the website. I think they're only 5400 now.