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July 2004
SATA 150 hard drives are becoming more prevalent and, around this december, we should see announcements from Seagate about the first SATA 300 drives. Can't wait, so to speak!
August 2003
I really must revise this page. The real crunch though is that EIDE drives are heading the way of the dinosaurs, or at least the MFM and RLL drives of old. What I'll probably do is use this for news and history. Serial ATA, which is replacing it, already has it's own page...
This page was to get a full overhaul, listing all the drives on the market but given the pace of the industry and the excellence of other sites like Storage Review I'll pass. Instead this will list current favourites and future technology like the upcoming serial ATA drives - as reviewed in this article at Tom's Hardware.
Next year new chipsets and southbridges such as Intel's ICH5 and VIA's VT8236/8238 are introduced as these will also support Serial ATA. Companies like Highpoint Technologies are already bringing devices to the market, including a clever little parallel-serial ATA converter.
As a point of note, whilst waiting for Seagates Serial ATA drives promised for this fall, I am currently pushing the Seagate 7200 rpm 80Gb drives and pointedly slagging off the entire range of current IBM hard drives.
As for Fujitsu... I'll dish up all the dirt on them shortly!
[ Peter den Haan's storage page ]
His Enhanced IDE FAQ is an attempt to answer the most common questions concerning EIDE harddisks, CD-ROMs, tapes, interfaces and setup.
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August 2010 *cough*
Just planning ahead 
Apparently Seagate researchers now believe they can store as much as 50 terabits per square inch -- equivalent to the entire printed contents of the Library of Congress -- on a single disk drive for a notebook computer.
Read the article here about HAMR (heat-assisted magnetic recording) technology over at Newsfactors' Sci:Tech.
Nov 2002
Anyone in the industry will by now be aware of the Fujitsu's debacle over dodgy harddrives. More specifically that it new it had some 6 million faulty ones and seemed to go out of it's way to pretend business are usual. Phah! Many years ago I refused point blank to ever sell or promote their drives after I run into a blank wall trying to return faulty 1Gb drives. What goes around, comes around. According to one fellow I know in a local branch they are going to be taken over shortly. Don't want 'em? Anyway, read this article from The Inquirer
August 2002
Eh up, Shuttle have a Serial ATA board on the market, compliments of a SIS 648 chipset. Check out the review over at Toms Hardware
Note that this fall, Seagate will begin shipping a Baracuda drive with the SATA interface. Check out this article at
Infoworld
Aopen have announced the world's first serial ATA notherboard with Intel 845E chipset - the AX4B-533 Plus
Needless to say SIS are pushing their market lead with the impressive SIS648 chipset and the list of vendors is growing. I've put a list of them on the motherboards page under SIS648.
30th July 2002
Western Digital are the first off the mark to get a mention for their release of a 200Gb hard drive. The WD Caviar WD2000BB is 7,200 RPM and features optional fluid dynamic bearing (FDB) motors for quieter operation*.
*The IBM drives I've used appear to employ Pixie dust - if pixies are the size of rock trolls in a brass band...
Getting dated, but you might like this hard-drive article I wrote in '99
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