which terabyte hdd is the best?

[XXXXXX]

i would like to buy a terabyte hdd (at least 2+ terabyte), which one is the best?

 

[biostud]

and I would like a 10Ghz x86 processor, which is best?

 

[MichaelD]

:music:Troll, troll, troll your thread, gently down the stream!!! Trolling, trolling, trolling, trolling! Your thread makes me scream!!!:music:

No such thing as a Terrabyte drive, as in SINGLE drive. But you know this already. Stop posting.

 

[Acanthus]

Originally posted by: MichaelD
:music:Troll, troll, troll your thread, gently down the stream!!! Trolling, trolling, trolling, trolling! Your thread makes me scream!!!:music:

No such thing as a Terrabyte drive, as in SINGLE drive. But you know this already. Stop posting.

 

[StrangerGuy]

Originally posted by: MichaelD
:music:Troll, troll, troll your thread, gently down the stream!!! Trolling, trolling, trolling, trolling! Your thread makes me scream!!!:music:

No such thing as a Terrabyte drive, as in SINGLE drive. But you know this already. Stop posting.

LOL. I couldn't agree more.

 

[Lonyo]

RAID-5 a bunch of 250GB/300GB drives (at least 10 of them).

Or just use 9x250GB drives (get a PCI raid card)

 

[Carbonadium4]

I just bought a power vault 146gb x 14 10k rpm scsi array. Dell listed it as 13k, I talked them down to 6988.. half price.. they were not selling many of these..

if you got the money

 

[FlameDeer]

Originally posted by: XXXXXX
i would like to buy a terabyte hdd (at least 2+ terabyte), which one is the best?

"a 2+ terabyte hdd"? If only one hdd you mean, then maybe repost this topic 5+ years later you will get your answer.

If 2+ "gigabyte" is what you mean, then the correct time to post this topic is 8 years before where 2.1 GB Quantum Bigfoot can be your lovely choice...

p/s: my 2.1 GB Quantum Bigfoot is still working if you want.

 

[KF]

If you've got that much porn in your collection, I suggest you seek professional help.

I couldn't resist.

By looking at your other posts, I think you are serious. How did you arrive at the 2 terabytes figure for your needs? Ordinary HDs are topping out at .3 terabytes.

 

[eelw]

Lacie 1TB Bigger Disk

 

[mAsTAd]

the price on that Lacie is outrageous. Get 2 500gb drives, that would be cheaper.

 

[Iron Woode]

Originally posted by: eelw
Lacie 1TB Bigger Disk

Looks like MichaelD just got PWNED.

 

[Sunner]

Originally posted by: Iron Woode

Originally posted by: eelw
Lacie 1TB Bigger Disk

Looks like MichaelD just got PWNED.

Not really, that's not one disk, that's a bunch of disks in one chassis.
The biggest disks right now are at 400 GB, Seagate has a 500 GB one coming however.

 

[Regs]

Also, build a fan a size of a windmill to cool those suckers off.

 

[bolomite]

hehe, 'bigger disk'

 

[tweeve2002]

Im going to be pushing 1 TB soon...I got about 400 GB in drive space right now on two diffrent RAID 0 set ups and Im want to get a some seagate 400 GB drives and put them in RAID 0

three RAID 0 drives and about 1.2 TB of hard drive space and if any of you are wondering YES I can fill it.

 

[Zepper]

3 x Hitachi 400GB ~ 1TB = $1200. x 2 = $2400. ~ 2TB...
.bh.

:laugh:

 

[DaveSimmons]

I'd love to be able to buy 600+ GB drives for my lossless FLAC music server, to replace the 2x250 and 2x250 backup drives I have now (plus 120 GB scratch and 30 GB OS). But it will be 1-2 years before they exist and about 3 years before 600 GB replaces 160 GB as the sweet spot for cost per GB.

Hop in a freezer, XXXXXX and tell them to thaw you in 2007.

 

[imported_Phil]

Originally posted by: Iron Woode

Originally posted by: eelw
Lacie 1TB Bigger Disk

Looks like MichaelD just got PWNED.

http://www.macworld.com/2004/05/reviews/lacoebiggerdisk/

Looks like you just got pwned.

 

[MichaelD]

Originally posted by: Iron Woode

Originally posted by: eelw
Lacie 1TB Bigger Disk

Looks like MichaelD just got PWNED.

I think not. That is a Storage Appliance, NOT a "HD" like the OP is looking for.

There is NO WAY there is a SINGLE HD in there. It's either JBOD or it's solid state (RAM drive)

It doesn't say in the specs what it is, but I know this; right now, 1TB SINGLE HDs do not exist.

So ---> (add in "rasberries" sound effect)

 

[glugglug]

Hmm, take a raid 0 array and slow it down below the speed of a single drive by giving the user a choice between slow firewire and slower USB.

Genius.

The "bigger disk" is four 7200 RPM IDE drives in a raid 0 array in that huge case BTW.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: glugglug
Hmm, take a raid 0 array and slow it down below the speed of a single drive by giving the user a choice between slow firewire and slower USB.

Genius.

The "bigger disk" is four 7200 RPM IDE drives in a raid 0 array in that huge case BTW.

That must do wonders for the MTBF of that unit.

Edit: From that Macworld.com article:

Our tests revealed that the Bigger Disk's performance was equivalent to that of a single ATA FireWire 800 drive. The array writes to the first drive; when that drive is full, it moves on to the second, and so on until it has used up all four drives.

Guess it's JBOD, not RAID-0, after all. Still can't be great for reliability though, but at least it's more recoverable if one of the drives does go out. I'm surprised slightly that they don't do RAID-5 with an integral hot-spare, or something.

 

[Psych]

There are certainly many different storage solutions with 1TB+ capacity.

But I keep reading about Hitachi and such making records with Hard drives that are 400GB, so I doubt that there is a hard drive out there that fits into standard slots that has 1TB capacity.

 

[Iron Woode]

Originally posted by: MichaelD

Originally posted by: Iron Woode

Originally posted by: eelw
Lacie 1TB Bigger Disk

Looks like MichaelD just got PWNED.

I think not. That is a Storage Appliance, NOT a "HD" like the OP is looking for.

There is NO WAY there is a SINGLE HD in there. It's either JBOD or it's solid state (RAM drive)

It doesn't say in the specs what it is, but I know this; right now, 1TB SINGLE HDs do not exist.

So ---> (add in "rasberries" sound effect)

I know.

I was just having fun.

 

[MichaelD]

Originally posted by: Iron Woode

Originally posted by: MichaelD

Originally posted by: Iron Woode

Originally posted by: eelw
Lacie 1TB Bigger Disk

Looks like MichaelD just got PWNED.

I think not. That is a Storage Appliance, NOT a "HD" like the OP is looking for.

There is NO WAY there is a SINGLE HD in there. It's either JBOD or it's solid state (RAM drive)

It doesn't say in the specs what it is, but I know this; right now, 1TB SINGLE HDs do not exist.

So ---> (add in "rasberries" sound effect)

I know.

I was just having fun.

I know too. Ya gotta excuse me; I've had THREE hours of sleep in the past 48 hours. I'm on Pager Duty this weekend. :| I fully expect to get paged AGAIN tonight...or tomorrow morning, depending on your point of view.