WD 2TB Hard Drives Announced

[davephan]

Originally Posted by bastafidli

actually all seagate 7200.11 and 2 other product lines are affected but there is already a new firmware available on seagate website which fixes the problem. Seagate also ofers free data recovery service for affected users. I am using 2 of the 1.5TB which I have upgraded with new firmware the day I got them. So far so good.

I checked my Seagate ST31500341AS 1.5 TB drive, and the serial number checking utility reported the drive did not need any updating. The revision number is SD19. Did your revision number change when you made the update from some other number to SD19? If not, do you have a revision number or firmware level of your drive after making the update?

Dave

[vexhold]

Found for 252.00 + free ground shipping (limit 1 fo shipping)

http://store.memorylabs.net/2tbsain3wedi.html

[bastafidli]

Here is the knowledge base article for Seagate drives firmware update including download

http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/cr...p?DocId=207957

Firmware SD19 is I believe affected (I had the same). Using this firmware the firmware gets updated to SD1B. I used the previous "unofficial" release which you could get only by requesting it from customer support and that updated the firmware revision to SD1A.

[sandor]

And if you really want to press your luck....


Seagate announced a 2 TB drive:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2340044,00.asp

[TorontoSage]

Originally Posted by comet48

I remember $20,000 for 20 mBytes of disk, and $1 million for a 1mB memory! Mid 70's.

Way back in the early 80's a friend of mine brought me over to his house to show me the latest acquisition he was oh so excited about. No one I knew had one of these. It was a 5 MB hard disk he ordered via mail order from the US for his IBM Personal Computer and I'll never forget that he paid $1,200 CDN for it. That is $240/MB. Based on that pricing 1GB then would have cost $240,000,000 CDN or about $200,000,000 USD!

[scat]

Originally Posted by vexhold

Of course then again, my first computer didnt even have a HD. All it had was 20kb of ROM and 64kb of RAM.

Yey!! Commodore 64!!

My first ever computer was a Tandy 1000 EX with a 5.25" floppy drive, one of those wedge computers
and I purchased a external hard drive of 5 megabyte for $199.00 that is $39.80 per megabyte.

From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandy_1000

Tandy 1000 EX
The Tandy 1000 EX was designed as an entry-level IBM compatible personal computer. The EX was a compact computer that had the keyboard and 5.25" floppy drive built into the computer casing. The 5.25" drive was accessible from the side of the computer, on the right hand side. The EX was marketed as a starter system for people new to computing, and sold for $1000.00 from Radio Shack in December of 1986.

Specifications for the EX model included an Intel 8088 7.16MHz (switchable to 4.77MHz) CPU, 256KB RAM, built-in keyboard, CGA video resolution, and one built-in 5.25" floppy drive.

Remember back when we looked at it and it kept blinking at us , AKA: MS-DOS prompt ---->A:|

Question ?
Would that be considered the first phase of Texting?

Scat

[PLUCKYHD]

Hell my first hard drive wa 4mb and cost me a cheap $400 man how times are change

In all seriousness bigger drives coming out are great because that means prices of the smaller drives will fall and become even cheaper. (if history repeats )

as for seagate I run 12 of 1.5tb puchased after the whole debacle not one of them needed a update and I haven't had any problems. I also run some wd 1tb without problems.

[kevine]

2 TB WD $179
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/Produc...tCode=10010073

[sandor]

Originally Posted by kevine

2 TB WD $179
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/Produc...tCode=10010073

they haven't been in stock though...been waiting for a while.

newegg has them readily available, but they are still $299

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822136344