need more storage?

[Pedro_The_Swift]

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,131417-page,1/article.html

mmmmm!

[barryj]

That's a lot to loose when it dies.

[Phoenix]

1 terabyte !!!! and I thought my 300gb drive was overkill!!

[Quiggers]

Finally, a 1 tb hard drive.

That's gonna be a heap of data lost when it expires:twisted:

(I prefer raid arrays).

GQ

[George130]

We have one in an external case at work for back ups and data transfer. It's great!

[DarrenR]

Finally, a 1 tb hard drive.

That's gonna be a heap of data lost when it expires:twisted:

(I prefer raid arrays).

GQ

That's a big drive and pretty dam funny that it's a Deskstar. Before Hatachi bought IBM drives the deskstar was known by IBM staff as deathstar as it wasn't a if the drive would die but a when.

I won't be moving my TB of storage off my raid array any time soon, drives just aren't reliable enough. Although an array of 1TB drives would be cool, 3, 4, 5 TB without the need for server specific hardware, hrmm nice.

Best regards
DarrenR

[dmdigital]

Mirrored pair would be the only safe way, that's a lot to loose!

Now if cost wasn't an issue hmmm RAID5 ... how long before Petabytes really make themselves felt:cool:

[solmanic]

You should just make sure you get THREE. One primary, one RAID1 mirrored, and one in an external caddy with scheduled backup. That's really all you need to be safe.

I am not sure why more people don't get RAID1 setups as standard. Unless you're using a laptop, then simple technical failure of one hard drive is the most likely cause of data loss. Of course if you ARE using a laptop, then theft is the most likely cause.

[5teve]

just in their defence... im running 8 of the 500gb versions.. and have used literally thousands in the past... as i designed raid storage kit.. and we used hitachi exclusively...

as some guys have stated tho... raid is the way to go.. i have mine set up in a raid 5 array.. the advantage being i only lose 1 disks worth of capacity rather than half of the total number of disks capacity.. 1 dies.. i replace it and it rebuilds.. i still back up all my 'important' stuff like pictures and docs to an external 500gb too...

The hitachi drives are wickedly quick too!

Thanks

Steve

[incisor]

The hitachi drives are wickedly quick too!

ibm drives were always quick, but deadly, many sizes had a near on 100% death rate at 3 years.

is a pity hitachi and/or their distributors are also renown for not honouring warranty... not a model i like to put any of my clients thru...

[5teve]

wonder if thats only here (warranty wise)? UK wise we had zero probs.. maxtor were always our worst by far... bearing in mind on just one of our raid units we had 42 disks crammed in.. and we sold 150 of them a month (units not disks :) ) very few failures... and we produced 6 different models varying from 4 disk units to the 42 disk beast..

agreed tho... the IBM deskstars were the ultimate in unreliability! you'd think after all this time hitachi would of managed to shrug that name of... but no..

Thanks

Steve

[sam_d]

I remember installing my first hard drive into my first PC (which ran Windows 1.03 fine with a single 3.5" floppy drive) back in 1990. It was a whopping huge 32MB. I remember being very impressed by that and think I'd never fill that up.

Since then I've thought the same about 120MB, 500MB, 1GB, 3GB, 8GB, 30GB and 40GB in various combinations but have always eventually started to run out of room.

I've been using a 250GB external drive for a couple of years now and that is now half full.

Things have certainly moved on since using a single 720k floppy drive and DOS3.0 :)

Just a quick calculation for fun: My first HDD was 32MB and cost me 250GBP. 1TB = (approx) 31250 32MB drives. To get that storage capacity in 1990 would have cost me nearly 8 million GBP. Somewhat more than my paperround would ever have allowed. :)

[incisor]

my first hdd was 10mb and cost 1600 odd dollars including the 8bit controller..

i scrimped and saved for 18months to get it...

i was given a brand new one still in the box a few years ago, they were throwing half a hiace van full of them into a pit at a tip..

brought tears to my eyes...

[shorty943]

my first hdd was 10mb and cost 1600 odd dollars including the 8bit controller..

i scrimped and saved for 18months to get it...

i was given a brand new one still in the box a few years ago, they were throwing half a hiace van full of them into a pit at a tip..

brought tears to my eyes...

Beatcha.

Mine was a huge 30 Mb Rll job on an 8 bit Winchester card, plugged into a Compaq 286. She ran DOS 6.22 with Windows Ver3, at a blinding 12 Mhz, had a massive 4 Mb of RAM. Hercules CGA. What a beast of a machine she was.

I think I sold some body else's daughter for that machine. Just to play "DAS BOOT". Remember that? 16 colours man, 16 of the buggers, all at once, wow.


Shorty.