Recently Seagate announced the next logical step, a five platter three terabyte drive with a catch - it’s external only. ![]() ![]() One and two terabyte drives are now commonplace, the former selling for $60 a pop. ![]() That doesn’t leave a lot of room for anything else, and for that bulk data there’s no cheaper or better alternative than mechanical storage. My OS, applications, page file, documents and even frequently played games (ahem, Starcraft 2) all end up on my SSD. Hard drives haven’t lost their importance in my mind, their role has simply shifted. What I don’t mention that often is the stack of 1TB hard drives I use to store all of my personal music/pictures/movies, AnandTech benchmark files that drive my lab and to power my home theater (yes, final update on that coming soon). All of my work machines have transitioned to SSDs, as have all of my testbeds for reliability and benchmark repeatability reasons I’ve mentioned before. I’ve spent so much of the past two years covering SSDs that you’d think I’d forgotten about traditional hard drives.
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