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  1. 3rd May 2007, 07:21 AM #1
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    need more storage?

    http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,13...1/article.html

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    That's a lot to loose when it dies.
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    1 terabyte !!!! and I thought my 300gb drive was overkill!!
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    Finally, a 1 tb hard drive.

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

    (I prefer raid arrays).

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    We have one in an external case at work for back ups and data transfer. It's great!
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  6. 6th May 2007, 10:40 PM #6
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    Quote Originally Posted by Quiggers View Post
    Finally, a 1 tb hard drive.

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

    (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.

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    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
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    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.
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    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!

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    Quote Originally Posted by 5teve View Post
    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...
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