I'm in the market for a high capacity harddrive, and I have my eyes set on Seagate's 750GB. I'm wondering if any of you in the know-how have run into any truths (or rumors) of a possible price decrease? If not a price decrease, are other HDD companies going to attempt to make a drive that can compete with Seagate's in terms of capacity? Finally, when is Seagate going to release that 960GB version? I've seen the 750's going for ~$400, and I really don't wanna spend that kinda cash right now, especially with the Hitachi 500GB going for ~$230.
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Seagate's plan?
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In fact the smaller brother to the 750 is the 320 version that can be had for $99 at newegg. So if you can raid them with raid5 the drive cost for 4 is still less than the single 750 and you get more storage and redundancy to boot. Course that does not include the cost of a RAID controller.drizzt81 said:
The 320GB model uses the same tech as the 750 so performance should be very close if not the same.
All good points, my post was just to inform people of options. If you need a single drive 750GB, you need it and pay a premium price for it. Not everyone has the same requirements and many people would be better off with a RAID array of smaller drives.
I wouldn't classify a Seagate drive as "perfect" for a SFF. My 400GB 7200.9 pulls about as much juice (and runs about as hot) as my 300GB Maxtor 
Given that the 750GB has a fourth platter to turn and a fourth actuator arm to move, you will need to make sure that you keep the drive cool in the SFF environment. The Maxtor and Seagate drives run about 8C hotter than my Samsung and WD drives.
However, it's still pulls less juice and puts out less heat than the two 400GB drives that it would take to match its capacity.
Do you really need 750GB in a SFF? Have you considered making a media server?
Given that the 750GB has a fourth platter to turn and a fourth actuator arm to move, you will need to make sure that you keep the drive cool in the SFF environment. The Maxtor and Seagate drives run about 8C hotter than my Samsung and WD drives.However, it's still pulls less juice and puts out less heat than the two 400GB drives that it would take to match its capacity.
Do you really need 750GB in a SFF? Have you considered making a media server?
Right now I have a tower comp, and no, I don't want a media server. I live in a dorm so space is a premium, as is the ability to transport my computer. A SFF is the perfect size for travel. All I need is two drives (a raptor and this 750GB) instead of the 4 I have now. It'll use less power and be a smaller system. My inital question was just about the price premium.
Oh, and no 500GB is not enough. I'll be cutting it too close (I have around 440GB of dvds/music/pictures right now).
Oh, and no 500GB is not enough. I'll be cutting it too close (I have around 440GB of dvds/music/pictures right now).
Hitachi said long ago that they would be releasing a high-density 1 TB perpendicular HD in 2007. I think this will be interesting, and am sure that Seagate is active in a similar effort.
Toshiba is releasing a 1 TB HD-DVD recorder (only in Japan), although I'm not at all sure that this is 1 drive.
The $/GB figures for 250-320 GB drives vs. 750 GB drives are so different that there doesn't seem to be much of a market for the large drives, which tends to keep their prices higher.
Seagate's prices will probably drop, in the general trend, but such information would tend to be closely guarded secrets.
Toshiba is releasing a 1 TB HD-DVD recorder (only in Japan), although I'm not at all sure that this is 1 drive.
The $/GB figures for 250-320 GB drives vs. 750 GB drives are so different that there doesn't seem to be much of a market for the large drives, which tends to keep their prices higher.
Seagate's prices will probably drop, in the general trend, but such information would tend to be closely guarded secrets.