1TB drive introduced by Hitachi

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Shawn

Shawn

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sweet! maybe when the prices go down a bit i'll pick up 2 and make a raid mirror.
 
Fullmetal Chocobo

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Originally posted by: RebateMonger
Anybody know when the 2TB drives are coming out? :)

Thought I'd be the first to ask.
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Soon, but it has to be powered by the Ultra 2kw PSU. ;)
 
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Auric

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Hey, consolidating drives uses less power and increasingly important to me takes less space to store 'em. They really should not be advertising these things as high-capacity floppies. Oh wait, they don't. ;)
 
Fullmetal Chocobo

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Originally posted by: Auric
Hey, consolidating drives uses less power and increasingly important to me takes less space to store 'em. They really should not be advertising these things as high-capacity floppies. Oh wait, they don't. ;)
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:thumbsup: Made me LOL.

Power requirements might not be bad, but pretty soon we are going to need water cooling for the hds, as I can't imagine the thing runs cool....
 
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Genx87

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Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo
Originally posted by: Auric
Hey, consolidating drives uses less power and increasingly important to me takes less space to store 'em. They really should not be advertising these things as high-capacity floppies. Oh wait, they don't. ;)
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:thumbsup: Made me LOL.

Power requirements might not be bad, but pretty soon we are going to need water cooling for the hds, as I can't imagine the thing runs cool....
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What does the density of the drive have to do with heat? The thing still spins at 7200 rpm.

/shrug
 
AllGamer

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but it will take forever to reach local stores... :/

it'll be sweet to get 2 of those to replace my 2x 1/2 TB drives :D
 
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Hopefully, this will drop the 750's in price quickly. That should take over as the sweet spot rather then 1/2tb. Who wants a 750 when they can spend 2x the price for 1/4 more space?

I'm looking to set up a raid5 array and I think it makes a lot of sense to start it out with 3 or 4 750's despite the current premium and add on as the price plummets. That's not going to happen for a very long time with the 1TB drives.



 
RebateMonger

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Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo
And upgrading from a 20mb hardcard to a real hard drive was wonderful. :D
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Last year, a guy showed up on another Technical Forum with a question. He was helping his in-law's MD practice. They wanted to know how to get the data from a 15-year-old medical practice program onto a new computer.

They were using a 40MB (or so) ISA-slot HARDCARD for their entire medical practice records. With no backups, even! It'd been spinning in that old computer for at least fifteen years.
 
Nocturnal

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Just imagine this drive being filled and then it failing. Those who don't have a RAID 1 or RAID 5 setup is going to be SOL!

Anyone know how many years the warranty is on this bad boy? I'd hope Hitachi would jump on the 5 year bandwagon.
 
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SexyK

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Originally posted by: Nocturnal
Just imagine this drive being filled and then it failing. Those who don't have a RAID 1 or RAID 5 setup is going to be SOL!

Anyone know how many years the warranty is on this bad boy? I'd hope Hitachi would jump on the 5 year bandwagon.
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3 years.
 
RebateMonger

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Just imagine this drive being filled and then it failing. Those who don't have a backup setup are going to be SOL!
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Changed to a much safer scenario.

Last week I helped a new client who lost his (200-person) company's ENTIRE accounting and project database. They had a RAID 5 array on a high-end HP server.

A single drive failed in the four-drive array. He replaced it. When he rebooted, the RAID 5 array was gone. A second drive had also failed. It cost him $15,000 just to get the data recovered. It cost a lot more than that to get things running correctly again.

He THOUGHT he had adequate backups (they have a tape changer), but the backups of this server weren't what he expected them to be.

Moral:
a) A redundant RAID array isn't adequate data protection. Data on RAID arrays gets lost, too.
b) Be totally familiar with your backup software and hardware and test your backups periodically.
 
Kaido

Kaido

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Originally posted by: RebateMonger
Just imagine this drive being filled and then it failing. Those who don't have a backup setup are going to be SOL!
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Changed to a much safer scenario.

Last week I helped a new client who lost his (200-person) company's ENTIRE accounting and project database. They had a RAID 5 array on a high-end HP server.

A single drive failed in the four-drive array. He replaced it. When he rebooted, the RAID 5 array was gone. A second drive had also failed. It cost him $15,000 just to get the data recovered. It cost a lot more than that to get things running correctly again.

He THOUGHT he had adequate backups (they have a tape changer), but the backups of this server weren't what he expected them to be.

Moral:
a) A redundant RAID array isn't adequate data protection. Data on RAID arrays gets lost, too.
b) Be totally familiar with your backup software and hardware and test your backups periodically.
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Ouch...I hear that. Last year the gateway server at my primary office failed; the RAID system had a similar problem to what you described. Since it was just an access system, there was no backup. Lost all the VPN passwords and other access data stored on it. Was not cheap or easy to fix. The people who originally set it up didn't leave any documentation whatsoever. We ended up ordering a fairly simple Dell server tower as a replacement and made sure to learn the RAID system inside and out, document it, and implement a very simple backup system using rotating USB hard drives. It's now simple enough that anyone with a bit of computer experience can maintain. Scary huh :Q
 
Kaido

Kaido

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Originally posted by: SuperNaruto
Like to see some test data or at leat a raid edition aka enterperise storage version..
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I'm very interested to see performance data on a drive that large...the 750's from Seagate are supposed to be doing pretty well against other drives like the MaxLine in RAID setups.
 
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