Next Generation Hard drives

[sxndy]

I plan on building my next rig in about a years time using an Ivy bridge cpu but have read something somewhere that hard drives may be changing.
If so, I want the new hard drive standard too.
Anyone got any details on the what and when to expect this.

( just noticed that I have put this post in CPUs rather than general hardware.

sry

 

[Ordokai]

As SATA is fully backwards compatible and so universally used you don't need to worry about radical changes in standards, especially this soon. Solid state drives will become even more accessible and mainstream but thats about it. Note that even though SATA versions come, the hard-drives themselves don't even fully use the data exchange caps of the actual wire and interface. Hybrid drives are up and coming but even those use SATA so yeah. More experimental stuff like bit-patterned and thermally-assisted recording is just that, a thing of research papers and lab work, a couple of years away from the open market at least.


- Ordokai

 

[kae2]

Seeing as no standard H/D will even saturate Sata2 speeds, I wouldn't be concerned.

 

[sxndy]

Cool, no need to worry then

Thanks for the replys

 

[SeeKified]

You talking about SSD drives? If so, they still run on standard SATA connections, so no worries there.

 

[Klo]

I plan on building my next rig in about a years time using an Ivy bridge cpu but have read something somewhere that hard drives may be changing.
If so, I want the new hard drive standard too.
Anyone got any details on the what and when to expect this.

( just noticed that I have put this post in CPUs rather than general hardware.

sry

Or you could have put it in the hard drive section