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Other => Computer News => Topic started by: Broni on August 06, 2009, 06:35:45 PM
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http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9136320/Hitachi_announces_first_2TB_7_200_RPM_hard_drive
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Inc. announced today that it is shipping what it said is the world's first 2TB, 7200 RPM hard disk drive, the Deskstar 7K2000.
The 3.5-inch, 2TB Deskstar is a fourth-generation device that uses Hitachi's five-platter design using perpendicular magnetic recording technology, which stands bits upright on the platter in order to pack them more densely.
The drive has a 32MB cache and a 3Gbit/sec. SATA interface. It also offers 10% idle power savings over previous generations. On a watt-per-GB basis, idle power has improved more than 120%, Hitachi said.
"With the introduction of the industry's first 7200 RPM 2TB HDD, Hitachi GST is building a tradition of time-to-market leadership for delivering the biggest and fastest disk drives for capacity-hungry PC users, given it was also the first HDD vendor to ship a 1TB HDD, the Deskstar 7K1000, in early 2007," said John Rydning, research director for hard disk drives at market research firm IDC in a statement.
Brendan Collins, vice president of marketing, Hitachi GST, said in a statement that the 2TB drive is intended for gamers, workstations and desktop RAID arrays.
In addition to the new 2TB Deskstar, Hitachi is refreshing its 7200 RPM Deskstar 7K1000.C desktop drive family, which will have as much as 500GB per platter, and will come in capacities of 160GB to 1TB. Like previous generations, both the 7K2000 and 7K1000.C Hitachi Deskstar drives feature industry-standard 512-byte sector formatting and a ramp load/unload design to increase shock protection.
The new 7K1000.C is expected to deliver power efficiency at 4.4 watts or less idle power. The 7K1000.C family will be available this quarter.
Prices for the new drives were not included as part of Hitachi's announcement.
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http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=40000014&Description=2tb&name=Internal%20Hard%20Drives (http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=40000014&Description=2tb&name=Internal%20Hard%20Drives)
2tb drives were out a couple months ago, maybe more then that. They were the first for a 1tb drive, I will give them that. Now they are lieing
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Interesting.....liars :P
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I know!
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but they were the first with a 7200RPM 2TB drive, weren't they?
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Oh well um... yes
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None of those drives on newegg say 7200 RPM on the specifications 8)
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Oh snap! The ones calling liar need to get their facts strait. (because no one wants curved facts)
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See this? http://www.dabs.ie/products/western-digital-caviar-green-2tb-7200rpm-s300-32mb-5G1Z.html?refs=52090000
;D
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That place is expensive! $60 for a 320gb hdd!
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That place is expensive! $60 for a 320gb hdd!
That's because it's Ireland. Minimum wage here is ~€8.70 / ~$12.40, compared to, what, about $6 in the US? That's why we (Irish) think that prices in the US are for practically nothing, and Americans think prices in Ireland are sky-high.
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Its 7.25 I think and will be raised soon
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it's 8.25 in Canada... but almost nobody actually Makes minimum wage for very long. My current job started at 8.75 and now I'm making 11$.
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it's 8.25 in Canada... but almost nobody actually Makes minimum wage for very long. My current job started at 8.75 and now I'm making 11$.
How can you possibly afford to live? I don't get out of bed for less than $30.00.
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but almost nobody actually Makes minimum wage for very long
Is that not illegal?
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Is that not illegal?
No what I mean is they get raises from it :P
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Waiters and waitresses make less them minimum wage... I think some places they only make $5/hr
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Umm. They can't make less than minimum wage (before tax). That's why its a minimum.
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At some place I went to it said something like
Our waiters and waitresses only make $5/hr. Please tip! It helps out a lot!
Or something like that
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At some place I went to it said something likeOr something like that
I wonder why....
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Umm. They can't make less than minimum wage (before tax). That's why its a minimum.
Yes they can...check the Law.
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in the U.S maybe... but Canada's Labor laws are fairly clear.
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In England it's about £5.80ph and under no circumstances can you be paid less than that. No ifs, buts or may be's. Depending on your age of course.
£5.73 per hour for workers aged 22 years and older Changed to or changing to £5.80 2009.
A development rate of £4.77 per hour for workers aged 18-21 inclusive
£3.53 per hour for all workers under the age of 18, who are no longer of compulsory school age
When I started work 13yrs ago as an apprentice I was paid £55 a week for 2yrs. so that's about $89 - $90 per week. The rate would of been different back then obviously. The minimum wage was a great thing in my book.