wut duz 100 gig per platter meen?

[Punked Out Comp]

hey i was looking at this (http://www6.tomshardware.com/storage/20040209/index.html)
and i wanted to know wut 100 gig per platter means

[morriswindgate]

See Picture. It means that each platter can have 100 gigs on it

[Punked Out Comp]

i dont understand wut a platter is nd wuts so great about 100 gigs? thats about average

[Fastfly]

a platter is a Big CD that is in the harddrive. It is the tangable object that your information is stored onto.

100gig per platter is not average.

a 150gig harddrive currently has about 4 platters. thats like ummm.... 37.5gigs per platter.

[Punked Out Comp]

damn thats big lol

[delta013]

Inside a hard disk there are multiple platters, they are disks that look much like CDs only you can’t take them out, these platters are what the data is stored on.

If a hard disk has 100 gigs per platter and has 3 platters then that’s 300 gig (100 x 3 = 300).

Edit: Ah Fastfly you beat me guess thats why your called Fastfly. ;)

Delta013

[Punked Out Comp]

so let me c if i understand-- usually the biggger hdd dont have bigger platters than the small ones but they have a lot more platters, but now with 100 gig per platter there will be alot less platters in those hdd. wuts so great about this u still have the same amount of storage in a 500 gig hdd with 8 platters than a 500 gig hdd with 5 platters dont u?

[Sauron]

You ever heard of a 500 gig drive with 8 platters?

[DragonNOA1]

Originally posted by punked out comp
usually the biggger hdd dont have bigger platters than the small ones

well notebook drives are physically smaller

Originally posted by punked out comp
there will be alot less platters in those hdd. wuts so great about this

Less platters = less cost on the platters and heads and drive electronics. Easier to manage one platter than three. Now where there once was 3 75GB platters you can now put in 3 100GB platters. So lower cost and more storage. Yea for us all.

The largest @newegg is 300GB (http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduct.asp?submit=property&DEPA=1)

[RJ]

wuts so great about this u still have the same amount of storage in a 500 gig hdd with 8 platters than a 500 gig hdd with 5 platters dont u?

Yep, but the 5 platter hdd would be smaller, right ;) Well obviously there can be hdds with alot more space but the same size coz you don't need more platters.

Say you have a hard drive with 40 gig per platter and 4 platters, that'd be a 160 gig hard drive. Now instead of the four 40 gig platters you use the 100 gig platters and get a 400 gig hard drive.
Using 40 gig platters you would need 10 platters which obviously won't fit in current sized hard drives.

RJ

[largosama]

Is this about density or something because hard drives were stuck at 80 gigs per platter for a while.

[Hi Ho]

It's all about density.

[ceh4702]

At the rate they are going we will have 10,000rpm hard drives in a 2.5" format. I dont see why they cant make smaller drives the standard now. We do not really need 3.5" hard drives and 5 inch cdroms. When DVR R/W drives get more popular and blue laser technology kick in, we could srink the drives down quite a bit.

[DragonNOA1]

You think we can get 300GB on a notebook drive? No. They offer both sizes for a reason. One for portibility and one for storage space. You choose whichever suits your needs the most.

[ric449]

Blue laser technology?

[largosama]

It has a less wavelength than the Red laser, so it could burn more data in less space (i.e: thinner laser)

[DragonNOA1]

Last I heard it was about 54GB per CD/DVD

Here's a little article. (http://news.com.com/2100-1040-984520.html) Remember it's out in Japan but not in the US, yet.

[largosama]

Dude..thats like a hard drive there...