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Mobile Hard Drives to Pose Alternative to 3.5" HDDs in Desktops.

Started by: beenthere | Date 04/10/12 10:21:22 AM
Comments: 8 | Last Comment:  04/16/12 08:56:53 PM

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Not likely. 2.5" HDDs are so slow compared to 3.5" HDDs it's a joke. 2.5" HDDs for desktops would be a big step backwards.
4 4 [Posted by: beenthere  | Date: 04/10/12 10:21:22 AM]
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Really? I guess you aren't up to speed on the evolution of storage devices lately. C400 mSATA

http://www.anandtech.com/...00-msata-128gb-ssd-review
0 0 [Posted by: SteelCity1981  | Date: 04/10/12 10:21:45 PM]
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Really you think 2.5 inch hard drives are slower than 3.5 inch hard drives. News flash, Western Digital VelociRaptor drives are technically 2.5 inch hard drives and they have low accessing times and high throughput.

In the good old days 5.25 inch hard drives were the king of the crops for computers until 3.5 inch hard drives came around. Now 2.5 inch hard drives are going to replace 3.5 inch hard drives.
0 0 [Posted by: tecknurd  | Date: 04/10/12 11:09:25 PM]
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You don't know how things will pan out in the future. Especially if you start getting more 10K rpm drives in 2.5", performance should be better on the smaller counterparts.

At the moment 2.5" drives, make sense, mainly on energy constraint or quiet environments, but in 5 years?
0 0 [Posted by: redhavoc  | Date: 04/10/12 11:02:27 AM]
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15K 3.5" HDDs are just barely fast enough for desktop use. 2.5" tech isn't going to be able to make the quantum leap necessary. SSDs will make 2.5" HDDs obsolete IMO long before five years from now.
1 1 [Posted by: beenthere  | Date: 04/10/12 01:30:20 PM]
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I am using 2,5'' HDDs today in 2 of my 3 desktops. I only use 3,5'' as external storage and in my... not so quiet gaming system.
0 0 [Posted by: john_gre  | Date: 04/10/12 03:11:28 PM]
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The one thing i don't understand is that this story along with all the posts above have completely ignored STORAGE SPACE

2.5" Drives max out at 1TB unless you buy the thicker 1.5TB drives that look to only be available on portable's from seagate

3.5" drives max out at 4TB and unless 2.5" drives can match 3.5" drives for space then i dont think they will replace them anytime soon ... neither will SSD drives that max out at 512GB for non enterprise storage... but the cost of 512GB SSD's cost 12 times as much as 512GB hard disk's

Also for the same price as a 512GB 2.5" drive you can buy a 1TB 3.5" drive
0 0 [Posted by: vid_ghost  | Date: 04/12/12 05:56:13 PM]
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2.5" drives make a great boot/OS drive in HTPC's due to low power draw for 24/7 usage, also totally silent
0 0 [Posted by: alpha0ne  | Date: 04/16/12 08:56:53 PM]
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