400GB Firewire/USB2.9 External HDD for $850!

[govtcheez75]

Umm. Don't know if this is hot or not (probably not), but it's the first time I've seen an external (or internal) HDD that big.
http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APP...oTheStoreListPromo.1.0.0.3.9.4.14.0.4.3.0.1.0

....$850 seems likt alot of money to pay for storage though.

 

[Tiembo]

They also have a 500GB one: 500GB

Pretty sweet to be carrying around half a terabyte under your arm...

 

[hawkeye81x]

That's alot of possible portable porn.

 

[Johneverd]

So in about 4 or 5 years that 1.2TB (1,200 GB) Hard Drive in your old Pentium VIII 16GHz dinosaur will be painfully small.

EDIT: Cool 500GB drive Tiembo. That is the first one I've seen to hit half a Terabyte (TB).

 

[ViperV990]

The size of that unit is 6.7x1.7x10.6 in.

Seems like they are just fitting two 200/250GB drives into one enclosure, together with an ATA JBOD controller and ATA-FireWire converter/translator...

 

[flythunderbird]

500gb ... WOW :Q

 

[summerbreeze]

Originally posted by: hawkeye81x
That's alot of possible portable porn.

Ha ha.....thats a good one!

 

[Codeloss]

too bad, only 2 MB buffer... I'll wait for the SE ;-)

 

[jodhas]

i have 480 Gig RAID 0 Setup.

 

[Scyber]

Originally posted by: jodhas
i have 480 Gig RAID 0 Setup.

Compensating?

 

[Tiembo]

Originally posted by: jodhas
i have 480 Gig RAID 0 Setup.

That's a lot of data to lose should one of your hard drives fail...

 

[Tung]

wow! :Q

 

[duhh]

for a second I thought that said 40GB for $850? i was like? wtf?

 

[Otaking]

Wow, USB 2.9!
That's some sorta new proprietary technology, right?

I think the LaCie has only the Firewire interface, btw..

 

[artist99]

who would be stupid enough to pay double when you can get 2 - 200gb drives for less than half the price? get real.

 

[TonyG]

Paying double is worth it to some people, something about having the best and newest technology out.
Glances in wallet, no knew technology for me.

 

[ThisIsMatt]

Thanks, just picked up three.

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: jodhas
i have 480 Gig RAID 0 Setup.

My 480gig raid 5 array is used to backup the most critical files from my 1120gb raid 5 array. (And I'm not counting the hot spare on the 1120gb array)

Bill

 

[DanFungus]

Originally posted by: bsobel

Originally posted by: jodhas
i have 480 Gig RAID 0 Setup.

My 480gig raid 5 array is used to backup the most critical files from my 1120gb raid 5 array. (And I'm not counting the hot spare on the 1120gb array)

Bill

sweet jesus
/me declares him the winner

 

[mra]

Originally posted by: DanFungus
sweet jesus
/me declares him the winner

What you call a winner I call someone who has more money than sense. That array in a business environment I can see, but for a home user it's completely ridiculous and a waste.

 

[HarryK]

Originally posted by: Scyber

Originally posted by: jodhas
i have 480 Gig RAID 0 Setup.

Compensating?

I've got over 500 GIG that's almost full that I use for video editing (four 120s + a 30 or 40 gig for the OS and applications) I'd slap another 120 in there if I got the chance and found more hot-hot deals here on Anandtech (which is how I got the four 120s)

 

[DrJeff]

Originally posted by: mra

Originally posted by: DanFungus
sweet jesus
/me declares him the winner

What you call a winner I call someone who has more money than sense. That array in a business environment I can see, but for a home user it's completely ridiculous and a waste.

I have to echo DanFungus: SWEET JESUS! That would support an extra bit of P2P file sharing before filling up.

 

[toant103]

it's not for a single drive right?

Maybe like 4 or 5?

 

[Maetryx]

I gotta get in here.... I've got two 40GB (80GB) as a RAID0 for my OS and apps. And I've got two 100GB (200GB) as as RAID0 for my data. I've had it this way for kind of a long time. I like to think I'm in the top 1 percentile for PC hobbyist hard drive capacity.

 

[DanFungus]

Originally posted by: mra

Originally posted by: DanFungus
sweet jesus
/me declares him the winner

What you call a winner I call someone who has more money than sense. That array in a business environment I can see, but for a home user it's completely ridiculous and a waste.

what I call a winner is someone that has more storage space than I can comprehend...