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Where are the huge SATA drives?
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Dec 1999
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You can get 5400RPM 300GB, and even 320GB drives from Maxtor, but only in PATA versions. Where are the large SATA drives? I can only find 250GB at best....
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Work: 2008 8x3.2 MacPro, 8800GT, 16GB ram, zillions of HDs. (video editing)
Home: 2008 24" 2.8 iMac, 2TB Int, 4GB ram.
Road: 2009 13" 2.26 Macbook Pro, 8GB ram & 640GB WD blue internal
Retired to BOINC only: My trusty never-gonna-die 12" iBook G4 1.25
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Originally posted by CIA:
You can get 5400RPM 300GB, and even 320GB drives from Maxtor, but only in PATA versions. Where are the large SATA drives? I can only find 250GB at best....
Not sure, but c'mon, 250 is pretty big. I'm sure they'll be coming eventually, but right now the monster drives run at lower RPMs.
Now, I'd say the WD 72 GB 10K RPM drives might be nice, in a RAID 0 stripe 
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Dec 1999
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True. I have yet to see a 7200rpm drive (PATA OR SATA) over 250GB, but there are uses for these huge drives. Servers?
I have 5 drives in my G4, 3 - 120GB's, a 60 & the stock 40. (plus 80 & 20 GB external FW drives) Yes, I have 560GB of HD space, I work in video most of the time.
I would love to lose the the 2MB cache WD 120, the 60, the 40, & the externals and just slap that all into a SATA drive in my new G5 (When the new G5's come out).
1 Fast drive for video and system stuff, one HUGE drive for storage.
Better yet, the new G5's should hold 3 or 4 drives..... /wish
I guess my point was, they make huge PATA drives, why not offer at least a SATA version of them? Sure the drives are slow, but I would love 2 SATA 300Gb or 320GB models.
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Work: 2008 8x3.2 MacPro, 8800GT, 16GB ram, zillions of HDs. (video editing)
Home: 2008 24" 2.8 iMac, 2TB Int, 4GB ram.
Road: 2009 13" 2.26 Macbook Pro, 8GB ram & 640GB WD blue internal
Retired to BOINC only: My trusty never-gonna-die 12" iBook G4 1.25
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Admin Emeritus  Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
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SATA is a technology used in cutting-edge machines, by cutting-edge users. Most such users aren't interested in 5400RPM drives.
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My point is... Speed aside, some people want HUGE drives. It's cheap to slap a SATA interface on 'em, why not do it? Especially given that no one else has....
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Work: 2008 8x3.2 MacPro, 8800GT, 16GB ram, zillions of HDs. (video editing)
Home: 2008 24" 2.8 iMac, 2TB Int, 4GB ram.
Road: 2009 13" 2.26 Macbook Pro, 8GB ram & 640GB WD blue internal
Retired to BOINC only: My trusty never-gonna-die 12" iBook G4 1.25
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Admin Emeritus Join Date: Oct 1999
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Because most SATA users aren't interested in 5400RPM drives. (Sound familiar? :-P)
It's not worthwhile to sell drives like that -- not many people have shown interest in those huge drives to begin with, and even fewer of those would want them as SATA. They're not gonna spend the money on a product that won't sell in volume.
tooki
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