:thumbsup Nice thanks im going to order one I paid that for a 500 gig 2 months back :(

Where did I see a 5 TB drive for sale, was it newegg?

look at this puppy, makes me want to buy 1 or 2
http://www.amazon.com/LaCie-301359-4.../dp/B001GFB6I8

Mech drives will still be around for at least a few more years possibly more. If you look at the actual benchmarks most SSD's are very disappointing in performance and failure levels. SSD has a lot of promise but so far not even close to living up to it. Price is too high, performance gains are not consistent, failure levels on some of these drives are terrible compared to the mech drives and obviously capacity isn't there yet.

I had an Acer netbook with an 8 gb ssd hard drive and it was the slowest piece of junk I ever saw. I sold it and got an Asus with a 160 gb hard drive, much faster.

Yep, gonna pick some up next week :)

The 2TB one looked good til I realized it was just 1tb in raid.

you are looking at Gen2. You should look a the specs of Gen3 from Sandisk

From their own promo:
Gen 3 has the performance equivalent of a 40,000 RPM conventional drive ? 5x faster than today?s laptop drives, 2x faster boot, 10x faster app launch ? faster than any SSD out there in PC market today

I've been using Western digital for a long time and have had good luck with them

While we're on the subject, watch out for the Samsung F1 Spinpoints. I bought two and both had bad sectors on the first scan before using them for anything. The sectors would change addresses and multiplied on one of them. Ended up taking them both back and upgrading to WD Black 1TB that are rock solid.

here is one of the more official links you can trust
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...d=aKviuugHgmFE


They will start selling their disks in Q4, but the other brands is at least one quater ahead of their timeframe.

It's just a matter of time, man. Just a matter of time. The shock-resistance and size flexibility of SSD will revolutionize computing.

I meant to say Western Digital..I always get two confused..:1orglaugh

In a research lab? :) There's no single drive that is 5TB in size, that is shipping anyway. To do that today would require a RAID system with at least a few drives.

5 TB Drives
 

2010: the 5TB 3.5in HDD cometh
Hitachi promises 1TB per square inch
By James Sherwood ? Get more from this author
4th July 2008 15:45 GMT
Hitachi has pledged to release a 5TB 3.5in hard drive within two years, and it claims two of the drives will boast enough capacity to store everything in your brain.

According to a report by Nikkei Net, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies will use Current-Perpendicular-to-Plane Giant Magnetoresistance (CPP-GMR) magnetc read heads to achieve the aim. This, the firm claims, will allow its drives to store 1TB of data in every square inch of the recording surface.

Hitachi?s announcement is a step on from a claim it made back in October 2007 that 4TB of storage could become a reality by 2011.

It?s worth noting though that Hitachi?s not the first storage company to promise super-capacity HDDs. Back in August 2007, rival Fujitsu announced that 2.5in disks were its proposed ?patterned medium? for such compact storage. It too plans to have commercial models available by 2010.

Fujitsu's approach uses anodised aluminium to create a pattern of "nanoholes", each holding a portion of magnetic material used to store a single bit of data. The aluminium-oxide surrounding these so-called 'nanoholes' helps magnetically insulate each bit from all the others, preventing one from affecting another, which might lead to data corruption.

Nonetheless, Dr Yoshihiro Shiroishi from Hitachi has claimed that two of its 5TB will together ?provide the same storage capacity as the human brain?.

So, if your memory?s not great, then just buy a couple of 5TB drives from Hitachi and download all your thoughts and memories onto them, before wiping the slate clean and staring afresh with another 10TB of brain capacity.