Contrary to what people seem to think about my comment, I am NOT saying that it is stupid to care about another increase desktop storage. Its great that we have increased to this size. What I was trying to express was my frustration at how slow laptop drives are to increase in capacity.
I apologize for saying most people buy laptops. I guess what I meant is that an increasing number of people. Laptop users are a very significant market nowadays. I would think they would put more R&D time and money towards it. I'm sure they are working hard towards it but it seems like a terabyte drive was more important than increasing the meager offerings on laptops. The difference being that on a desktop, a software RAID is not too difficult. On a laptop, its infeasible to have multiple drives so large built-in (no external drives) drives are the only option.
You also should remember that is is harder to build a big 2.5" drive than it is to build a 3.5" drive. A lot more thought has to go into designing a laptop hard drive.
No, you're right. More people do buy laptops... Only idiots and tech freaks have desktops nowadays... Last time I walked into a Best Buy, there were atleast 30 laptops and maybe 5 desktops. Just cause that guys stuck in the past doesn't mean the rest of us are.
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Micah Neumark @ Apr 25th 2007 2:23PM
Contrary to what people seem to think about my comment, I am NOT saying that it is stupid to care about another increase desktop storage. Its great that we have increased to this size. What I was trying to express was my frustration at how slow laptop drives are to increase in capacity.
I apologize for saying most people buy laptops. I guess what I meant is that an increasing number of people. Laptop users are a very significant market nowadays. I would think they would put more R&D time and money towards it. I'm sure they are working hard towards it but it seems like a terabyte drive was more important than increasing the meager offerings on laptops. The difference being that on a desktop, a software RAID is not too difficult. On a laptop, its infeasible to have multiple drives so large built-in (no external drives) drives are the only option.
t-bone @ Apr 25th 2007 2:36PM
You also should remember that is is harder to build a big 2.5" drive than it is to build a 3.5" drive. A lot more thought has to go into designing a laptop hard drive.
robert @ May 16th 2007 3:02PM
No, you're right. More people do buy laptops... Only idiots and tech freaks have desktops nowadays... Last time I walked into a Best Buy, there were atleast 30 laptops and maybe 5 desktops. Just cause that guys stuck in the past doesn't mean the rest of us are.