On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 9:31 PM, Charles Robinson <charl...@visi.com> wrote:
>> During my most recent weekly pilgrimage to my local computer store, 3TB >> 7200rpm Seagate drives were less than $140. > Well... at 7200RPM you'll have to find another vendor. Seagate isn't going > to make 'em. I don't argue that you get more storage for the buck with oxide > - but the high-speed drives (7200+ RPM) are/were aimed at those looking for > Performance (with a capital P) and for that you'll probably be seeing hybrid > or SSD-only drives filling that niche. The 3 TB drive would be a 3.5" desktop drive... Seagate's only discontinuing 7200 RPM 2.5" (laptop) drives (as you said earlier). I expect the market for large-capacity, high-speed desktop drives to be robust for a while yet. There's data centers buying them by the rackful. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
