Seagate promises terabyte HD drives
They’re in the pipeline
Monday, 7 January 2008, 10:51
HDD FIRM Seagate said it is releasing purpose built hard drives aimed at the digital video recorder market with capacities of up to one terabyte (TB).
These drvies are called the Pipeline HD series and they’ve been designed with quietness and low power in mind, said Seagate.
The firm will start shipping them in the first half of this year with capacities ranging between 320GB to 1TB. They will have Vista Logo certificates, if that excites you.
It appears that they are being aimed at original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). Seagate did not give any indication in its announcement you can buy them off the shelf, nor pricing on the units. µ
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40 pin IDE ROFL how old is your system, products get updated and so do computers myfriend, IDE will be phased out now, and you will have to buy hardrives in the sata arena, ide isnt fast enough to keep up with all theother compnents anymore and is useless
digital video market or digital movie storage market :)
Someone should add some laxative to that pipeline, so the drives get sent out faster.

Also, some SSDs from Seagate are past due already, and PLEASE ask them to make some of them for the 40-pin IDE ATA-133 standard.

I know a lot of people with IDE harddrives who would switch the main system drive to a SSD in an instant. Anyone thought of this market yet ?? I only see announcements for SATA or 44-pin IDE (i.e. laptop ones), and none so far for the 40-pin IDE variant.
Seagate makes their U-Series drives mainly for embedded consumer applications, like DVRs. The Primary design factor of the U-Series drives is >>!LOW COST!<< , not low noise, low power, cool operation, etc, although some may be factors. 
I'm not a Seagate hater, I just don't like some of their marketing BS.
Just use a 44 to 40 converter. No need for creating obsolete SSD-interfaces.
A lot, probably most, of us have perfectly functional systems and see no reason to waste money replacing h/w just to run Billy's latest fiasco. 

So yes, a bog standard IDE would be sweet.

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