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Geek Culture / Hitachi gets the first terabyte hard drive out

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indi
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Posted: 13th Mar 2007 08:55
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5 x 200gig platters.
32 meg buffers
SATA II

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,128400-page,1/article.html

I will wait for Western Digital and RAID 1 two of them I guess, but at least they are starting to release them, and able to load a years worth of client work and sort it better for DVD archiving.

I cant wait!

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Phaelax
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Posted: 13th Mar 2007 09:06
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Didn't know they even put that many platters in drives.

There's been a few articles out this year about large drives not being very reliable and having a much shorter lifespan.

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The 500 gig drives are 5 x 100 gigs as well.

Ive owned many hard drives in my career and 1 and 2 gig drives used to fall over the most.
With the advent of todays hard drives only one 40 gig has really suffered as well as a 20.

If you keep your machine well cooled, use a RAID 1 for backup purposes and frequently backup to disc media in triplicate, plus keep receipts for tax/warranty and replacement, I dont see a drama with lifespan as compared to about ten years ago.

in this example it suggests quantum to be better then western digital, yet ive lot more quantum drives then any brand.
http://www.vaughns-1-pagers.com/computer/data-backup.htm

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Posted: 13th Mar 2007 11:21 Edited at: 13th Mar 2007 11:40
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Yes I would wait for WD Raid Edition too, or you could just raid 5 3 x 500 Gigs (extra 1 is for recovery)

Over speed, cost and space I prefer to trust that my data will still be there in the morning! It's worth paying an extra £20 to get a few better parts and a MTBF of 1.2Million hours/136 years

http://www.wdc.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=238

Iomage - Their 1Gb SCSI based Jaz drive was pants, nearly failed my degree module because of it. I'll never trust them again due this piece of rubbish. They did replace it no questions asked but after the 3rd failure I just got rid.

Seagate - I've had 2 Seagates die on me over the years. In my personal past opinion they are cheap for a reason.

Fujitsu - I used to rate these because they were very quiet and reliable. But I can only find 2.5" drives from them now and thats why I ended up looking at Western Digital RE.

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Im a Maxtor fan, never had one die on me, in-fact i have over 6 just sitting in my closet of various capacity's that i no longer use or have a need for, most under 100GBs i just hand them to my friends when they need more storage and can't afford a new drive lol.

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David R
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First Terrabyte hard drive? Eh? LaCie have been doing 1TB HD's for a few years now, so I fail to see where Hitachi get the impression that this a "milestone"


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Phaelax
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Seagate was always more expensive than the competition. I've had only one seagate fail on me, 200gb sata recently. And have had two WD fail on me, a 1gb and 8gb. The 1gb was a refurb in a PowerSpec, so you can't expect much there. But the 8gb was brand new. WD did replace it under warranty, but I did lose some valuable stuff.

Maxtor is probably the last I'd buy. Personally, my favorite drives were the early IBM models back when they actually made them.

I lean a little more toward WD now, just because I couldn't get my Seagate replaced. It was under warranty but their diagnostics say its running fine, even though 4 other programs said there was a physical failure.

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Dazzag
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Quote: "Eh? LaCie have been doing 1TB HD's for a few years now"
I thought they were external hard drive enclosures with several HD's in them? I didn't think an actual 1TB single drive were available yet.

Cheers

I am 99% probably lying in bed right now... so don't blame me for crappy typing
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indi
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thats correct dazzag and if you raided it it was 2 x 500 gig drives.

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No this thread is about a true 1tb drive, 1 drive not several raided together or anything it is one single drive = 1tb. No one else has this everyone else takes 250gb's or 500gb drives and just raids them together in one case.

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