New Seagate 500G Single Platter HDD...

FYI...

It's the "7200.12" line.

Greater areal density should make it faster...

Newegg has it for $65, shipped. No reviews yet...

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148377&Tpk=7200.12

Nice..and the 2TB four platter version is rumored to come out in April!

 

This is insane... not too long ago, it would require a cabinet to house 1TB of storage disks.

 

And to think.. the first HDD I bought was 40MB, with lots of bad sectors... cost $400.

 

Does that thing come turbo charged?

 

Was it a standardized "type" with MFM connectors or did you manually have to enter the number of cylinders and heads?

 

I don't know... it was a long time ago, and I was even less computer savvy then.... I sort of remember the term "MFM", and never did manually enter cylinder/head info.

 

Seagate is claiming "up to 160MB/s, sustained" data transfer rate. Wouldn't THAT be nice if accurate?

 

i always wait till the last second to buy a drive, every week they are cheaper