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silk186

silk186

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I'm wondering. Based on my limited knowledge and understanding I believe that all hard drive currently in production (3.5 desktop drives) are 1-4tb in size? If so, with rises in hard drive prices I would expect all sub 1tb drives to sell out. Does that mean that by the time the hard drive sector recovers 1tb will be the smallest available desktop drive?
 
can you rephrase the question :p ?

If I understand you right, I think what you're suggesting is true. Maybe someone else could chime in though...interested to know how they answer.
 
System builders will still want smaller drives so that they can offer larger drives as upgrades at 3X the price of the upgraded drive if you purchased the drive online.
 
500GB will probably be the bottom end for a while. One head on a 1TB platter, they can't really get cheaper than that. For the vast majority of users that is a ton of space.
 
A question is will they still use lower density platters like 500, 666 and 750GB platters?
 
drescherjm said:
A question is will they still use lower density platters like 500, 666 and 750GB platters?
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For now, since they are still being manufactured then yes. But once 1TB platters are the only ones being volume manufactured (in 3.5") they will likely still offer 500GB and smaller drives and just lock down the size in the firmware to hit specific price points (ie it would cost them less to use 1TB platters they buy in quantity than to use 750 or 500's they have to have manufactured in small quantities). In that case, they may still sell it as a 80GB drive (firmware locked to 80GB on 1 side of the platter with 1 head) even though it was physically capable of 1TB (with 2 heads). They do this because they need to hit certain price points or have contracts for smaller sized drives for multi-year delivery.
 
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