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hey, its a hard drive -
July 29th, 2002, 11:13 PM
but its a 200 gig hard drive:
LAKE FOREST, Calif., Jun 25, 2002 – Continuing to lead the 7,200 RPM market with its WD Caviar® family, Western Digital Corp (NYSE: WDC) today introduced the industry’s largest capacity hard drive – its WD Caviar 200 GB 7,200 RPM product. This milestone marks the fourth consecutive first-to-market 7,200 RPM hard drive delivered by Western Digital – which was first to deliver 7,200 RPM hard drives in 80, 100 and 120 GB capacities. WD Caviar 60 GB-per-platter 7,200 RPM hard drives will be offered in capacities ranging from 120 to 200 GB and will be available this July. To ensure quiet operation in noise-sensitive desktop/work station environments, Western Digital offers hard drives equipped with optional fluid dynamic bearing (FDB) motors. wd press release thats a lot of music right there....and I found this next link through arstechnica.com, these physicists have found a way to test the ultimate storage limit of silicon based medium by detecting the presence or absence of a single silicon atom. In testing a device built on this technology they found the maximum density to be 250tbits/sq. in...of course, itwont reach this limit for decades, but can you say what? That computes to something like a 3.5 disk that could likely store more information than currently exists in this world. but maybe I exagerate slightly, but not by much... EETIMES -Oscar Wilde ZeroPaid UD homepage |
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Anti-Everything
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July 30th, 2002, 08:02 AM
cool my hd is almost as good as that one
my hd is 10gb "Killing for peace is like fucking for chastity" "Destroy Power not People" "I rather die on my feet then live on my knees" |
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Alien in Penguin suit....
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July 30th, 2002, 10:37 AM
sweet, now I can get rid of my 2 60's and 80 gig's =-)
(theonlybob) "There's gonna be some stuff u gonna see that's gonna make it hard To smile in the future, but through whatever you see, Through all the rain and all the pain, you gotta keep your sense of humor. you gotta be able to smile through all this bullshit" -Tupac Shakur www.theonlybob.com Do YOU Streamload?????? www.Streamload.com |
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only in it for the music
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July 30th, 2002, 12:51 PM
I just read that a few days ago. 200GB? Nice, but they said they'd get to 400 next year!! And at a speed of 7200RPM, that's pretty good. Although I don't know about $400.
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lowly peasant
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July 30th, 2002, 10:22 PM
after the holidays prices ought to plummet and the 80 gig drive will no longer have the best price value per meg... personally I cant wait for prices to drop... I'll skip the 200 meg drive and put 3 120 meg on a raid 0 or 3 configuration. Then I might actually get to share, let alone catalog, all the media I have
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