Wow. 1TB of Pr0n!

[GTaudiophile]

Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000: Terabyte Storage arrives on the Desktop

Over the last decade the drive manufacturers have been doubling and at times quadrupling storage capacity at a dizzying rate in order to meet continuing demands from users. In fact, it took the industry almost 35 years to reach the 1GB level, another 14 years to reach 500GB, and now with perpendicular recording technology, only two years to reach 1TB.

 

[rivan]

As others have said many, many times - I'd rather have twice the speed than twice the capacity these days.

All that terabyte drives do for me is make me worry about how the hell I'm going to back all that carp up.

 

[theprodigalrebel]

What's even more amazing about this disk is that its performance is on par with the Western Digital Raptor.

$200 for a 150GB Raptor or $400 for this 1TB Hitachi? Great performance and even greater value IMO. And yes, more HD Pr0n!

 

[LcarsSystem]

I kid you not when I say I can't wait for the first 1 Terabyte computer game. Ehhh pron is overrated when you have other means at your disposal.

 

[GTaudiophile]

Originally posted by: rivan
As others have said many, many times - I'd rather have twice the speed than twice the capacity these days.

All that terabyte drives do for me is make me worry about how the hell I'm going to back all that carp up.

Our limited experiences to date with the Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 have been terrific and beyond expectations. The overall performance of this drive has been phenomenal and is close enough to the WD1500ADFD Raptor drive that we consider it a worthy adversary. The Raptors are still the drives to own for benchmarking but this drive is a better overall performance value. In fact, based upon subjective testing we could seriously consider tossing this drive into the same performance sector as the WD Raptor when utilized in the typical gaming or enthusiast level machine where this drive will likely find a home.

 

[theprodigalrebel]

Originally posted by: rivan
All that terabyte drives do for me is make me worry about how the hell I'm going to back all that carp up.

Easy...by buying TWO drives!

 

[pcnerd37]

This week I will be bumping my desktop up to 1.66TB. I guarentee that will be full within a month. I plan on hitting 2TB by summer.

 

[Tegeril]

WD really needs to step it up and release higher density Raptors.

 

[Kaervak]

MMMMM, potential aerial density catastrophy. I'm amazed at the errors that happen on my 160GB drive, I can only imagine how much more those 1TB drives will have.

 

[giantpinkbunnyhead]

So I'm confused... this drive doesn't actually come with teh pr0n then? No thanks!

 

[GTaudiophile]

I just bought two Seagate 7200.10 500GB drives for a RAID 1 configuration. I also bought a 3ware SATA RAID card. All of which will go into a new Ubuntu Server.

 

[rikadik]

Originally posted by: LcarsSystem
I kid you not when I say I can't wait for the first 1 Terabyte computer game. Ehhh pron is overrated when you have other means at your disposal.

Fleshlight?

 

[Rubycon]

Wow good thing! Almost out of space here.

Wait a minute, where's the SAS version?

 

[Flammable]

Originally posted by: Rubycon
Wow good thing! Almost out of space here.

Wait a minute, where's the SAS version?

:Qx3

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: Rubycon
Wow good thing! Almost out of space here.

Wait a minute, where's the SAS version?

if i used windows built in capabilities to create a JBOD i could make a picture like that too.

 

[Toastedlightly]

"Get perpendicular!"

 

[alimoalem]

Originally posted by: Flammable

Originally posted by: Rubycon
Wow good thing! Almost out of space here.

Wait a minute, where's the SAS version?

:Qx3

 

[LcarsSystem]

Originally posted by: rikadik

Originally posted by: LcarsSystem
I kid you not when I say I can't wait for the first 1 Terabyte computer game. Ehhh pron is overrated when you have other means at your disposal.

Fleshlight?

Haha... nah, you supplement the fleshlight with pron... Girlfriend helps me a lot though.

 

[rivan]

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile

Originally posted by: rivan
As others have said many, many times - I'd rather have twice the speed than twice the capacity these days.

All that terabyte drives do for me is make me worry about how the hell I'm going to back all that carp up.

Our limited experiences to date with the Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 have been terrific and beyond expectations. The overall performance of this drive has been phenomenal and is close enough to the WD1500ADFD Raptor drive that we consider it a worthy adversary. The Raptors are still the drives to own for benchmarking but this drive is a better overall performance value. In fact, based upon subjective testing we could seriously consider tossing this drive into the same performance sector as the WD Raptor when utilized in the typical gaming or enthusiast level machine where this drive will likely find a home.

So it's big and as fast as a "fast" hard disk. I'm not talking about that sort of speed bump. I'm looking for something that can, without being RAIDed, feed today's processors. I work on very large images, save very large files, and the time it takes to write out a 1G file (to a single drive) hasn't changed significantly in several years.

I want to see a doubling of drive speed. Tripling. I want to stop thinking RAID.

 

[rivan]

Originally posted by: theprodigalrebel

Originally posted by: rivan
All that terabyte drives do for me is make me worry about how the hell I'm going to back all that carp up.

Easy...by buying TWO drives!

Exactly

 

[Rubycon]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
if i used windows built in capabilities to create a JBOD i could make a picture like that too.

SAS RAID0 > JBOD.

 

[rivan]

Originally posted by: Rubycon

Originally posted by: ElFenix
if i used windows built in capabilities to create a JBOD i could make a picture like that too.

SAS RAID0 > JBOD.

True.

 

[SsupernovaE]

Originally posted by: rivan

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile

Originally posted by: rivan
As others have said many, many times - I'd rather have twice the speed than twice the capacity these days.

All that terabyte drives do for me is make me worry about how the hell I'm going to back all that carp up.

Our limited experiences to date with the Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 have been terrific and beyond expectations. The overall performance of this drive has been phenomenal and is close enough to the WD1500ADFD Raptor drive that we consider it a worthy adversary. The Raptors are still the drives to own for benchmarking but this drive is a better overall performance value. In fact, based upon subjective testing we could seriously consider tossing this drive into the same performance sector as the WD Raptor when utilized in the typical gaming or enthusiast level machine where this drive will likely find a home.

So it's big and as fast as a "fast" hard disk. I'm not talking about that sort of speed bump. I'm looking for something that can, without being RAIDed, feed today's processors. I work on very large images, save very large files, and the time it takes to write out a 1G file (to a single drive) hasn't changed significantly in several years.

I want to see a doubling of drive speed. Tripling. I want to stop thinking RAID.

Then you're the type that should be watching the SSD developments. They have the potential to become very fast in a couple of years.

 

[Ricemarine]

Mmm... the day 1 TB SSDs finally come out is the day I will invest in something bigger than my 300 gb hard drive and my 160 GB. :laugh:...

Too bad it doesn't hold enough .

 

[rivan]

Originally posted by: SsupernovaE

Originally posted by: rivan

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile

Originally posted by: rivan
As others have said many, many times - I'd rather have twice the speed than twice the capacity these days.

All that terabyte drives do for me is make me worry about how the hell I'm going to back all that carp up.

Our limited experiences to date with the Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 have been terrific and beyond expectations. The overall performance of this drive has been phenomenal and is close enough to the WD1500ADFD Raptor drive that we consider it a worthy adversary. The Raptors are still the drives to own for benchmarking but this drive is a better overall performance value. In fact, based upon subjective testing we could seriously consider tossing this drive into the same performance sector as the WD Raptor when utilized in the typical gaming or enthusiast level machine where this drive will likely find a home.

So it's big and as fast as a "fast" hard disk. I'm not talking about that sort of speed bump. I'm looking for something that can, without being RAIDed, feed today's processors. I work on very large images, save very large files, and the time it takes to write out a 1G file (to a single drive) hasn't changed significantly in several years.

I want to see a doubling of drive speed. Tripling. I want to stop thinking RAID.

Then you're the type that should be watching the SSD developments. They have the potential to become very fast in a couple of years.

Oh, I'm watching. I just think it's borderline shameful that drives have made 3 years of progress in the last 10, speed-wise.