Largest Single Plata drive?

zo1d · 6 May 2006 at 20:49

Largest Single Platter drive?

Hi,
Need to replace my hard drive in my HTPC as it's started developing bad sectors.
Anyway being that it's for a HTPC I want it to be as quiet and cool running as possible. Either going to be a seagate or samsung, however what's the largest I can get with a single Platter drive?

Many Thanks...

benjo plz. · 6 May 2006 at 20:50

500gb?

mosfet · 6 May 2006 at 20:55

Don't think so mate

All the current 500gig models have 4 platters, although I think the Seagate .10s will have 3 (Perpendicular recording).

I really don't know of any single platter drives, Samsung Spinpoint are the drives of choice for most HTPCs, you really won't be able to hear them from a small distance. Go for a Spinpoint 250 or so.

jhmaeng · 6 May 2006 at 21:28

I heard that Seagate 7200.8 160GB is the largest on a single platter.

Clarkey · 6 May 2006 at 22:15

excuse me for asking a stupid question, but why would the number of platters make a difference?

id10T_error · 6 May 2006 at 22:31

less platters = better reliability
Obviously the fewer platters the fewer things to go pete tong

benjo plz. · 6 May 2006 at 22:40

id10T_error said:
less platters = better reliability
Obviously the fewer platters the fewer things to go pete tong

Setup a network backup?

SiriusB · 6 May 2006 at 22:40

Isn't HDD technology limited to just 180ish GB platters?

SiriusB

Cyber-Mav · 6 May 2006 at 23:18

my 250 gig drive is a 2 platter drive. seagate has 133gig platters and larger now i think.

jhmaeng · 6 May 2006 at 23:20

SiriusB said:
Isn't HDD technology limited to just 180ish GB platters?

SiriusB

That surely depends on HDD technology - such as perpendicular recording, which I'm sure boosed the limit by quite a bit (i.e. 160GB laptop HDDs)

zo1d · 7 May 2006 at 01:19

Clarkey said:
excuse me for asking a stupid question, but why would the number of platters make a difference?

My understanding is that less platter means fewer moving parts, which means less noise, heating etc

mosfet · 7 May 2006 at 02:54

zo1d said:
My understanding is that less platter means fewer moving parts, which means less noise, heating etc

Bingo

benjo plz. · 7 May 2006 at 13:02

jhmaeng said:
(i.e. 160GB laptop HDDs)

Aren't there 160gb laptop hds anyway?

jhmaeng · 7 May 2006 at 20:07

Phnom_Penh said:
Aren't there 160gb laptop hds anyway?

Not until Seagate released their latest Momentus range, which AFAIK uses perpendicular recording. The previous maximum was around 100GB.

benjo plz. · 7 May 2006 at 20:09

jhmaeng said:
Not until Seagate released their latest Momentus range, which AFAIK uses perpendicular recording.

What about the fujitsu ones?

Dutch Guy · 8 May 2006 at 12:17

http://www.silentpcreview.com/article291-page1.html

The largest capacity per platter is currently 188Gb but that is for the new Seagate 7200.10 and that is only available as 750Gb model, the 7200.9 has a 160Gb per platter design as linked to in this post.

jhmaeng · 8 May 2006 at 15:14

Fujitsu only seems to make capacities of up to 120GB so far, which is doable without perpendicular recording. It's the >120GB total capacity for laptop drives that needs a new recording technique, hence perpendicular. And of those currently out in the market, Seagate has the highest capacity (at least as far as I can tell).

Fujitsu is going to release 200GB 2.5in drives in 2007 - those also use perpendicular recording.

benjo plz. · 8 May 2006 at 17:09

jhmaeng said:
Fujitsu only seems to make capacities of up to 120GB so far, which is doable without perpendicular recording.

Fujitsu's MHV2160BT tbh

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http://www.techspot.com/news/18549-fujitsu-releases-160gb-laptop-hdd.html

pcoltrane · 8 May 2006 at 18:38

I'd say the 250gb spinpoint is the htpc hard drive of choice. Unless of course you are really serious about the going extreme low noise and power, in which case a laptop drive may be a better option. Saying that though - even 250gb gets filled very quickly if recording tv!

Marc

Bane · 6 Nov 2006 at 22:59

Sorry for resurrecting this old thread.

Anyone tried Hitachi's 7K160 that uses a single platter for the 160GB model? And compared it against Seagate's 7200.9 160GB models.