How many 1" hard drives can you fit in an ordinary computer bay?

[Derek Atkins]

Considering I can get 80GB 2.4" drives, you'd need to be able to fit
20 of the 1" drives in the same space to get equivalent storage
capacity.  Frankly, I'm not impressed at 4GB (at least for large-scale
RAID arrays).

I'm fairly certain I can get two 80G 2.4" drives into the space of a
single 3.5" "half-height" EIDE enclosure.

-derek

Randall Hofland <rhofland at localnet.com> writes:

> In regards to the thought of creating a powerful RAID system that fits
> into an ordinary 3.5 or 5.25" bay (or external USB/Firewire box), I
> spotted this article about Hitachi 1" Microdrive (4GB) hard drives on
> Yahoo this morning:
>
> http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=569&ncid=738&e=1&u=/nm/20040517/tc_nm/tech_hitachi_drives_dc
>
> " Hitachi GST said that the Thailand Board of Investment had approved
> the expansion of the plant's capacity to 60 million units annually
> from 30 million. In addition to the Microdrive, Hitachi GST's 2.4-inch
> Travelstar drives used in laptops and its 3.5-inch Deskstar drives
> used in desktop PCs and personal video recorders are made at the
> Thailand plant."
>
>
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