Terabyte Hard Drives

[stevem326]

A few weeks ago I started a thread about terabyte hard drives and how much longer it might be before we see them on the shelves. Anyway, I just found this article discussing this very topic that I thought you might find interesting:

Terabyte Hard Drives

 

[DaveSimmons]

Of course they aren't really terabyte drives, just a drive array using software to appear as a single logical drive

I want single drives with at lest 600 GB, so I can make silent little single-drive music servers with room for my current CD collection in lossless FLAC format (a bit over 300 GB now), plus the OS and room to grow. Current "500" GB drives are really only about 465 GB thanks to the marketing weasels and their "our GB is 1,000,000,000 not 2^30."

 

[mikeford]

But all of them are arrays, like 4x 250 GB in a raid etc. arrangement.

Many AV guys are going with terabyte arrays for movie storage. Its my own plan and my storage needs are far from extreme, its just that a terabyte has a nice ring to it, and isn't expensive these days.

What remains to be seen is if SMART etc. type tech or some level of redundancy in raid is best for large amounts of replacable data, movies and mp3s, where replacing might be both time and fuss to replace.