Large Hard Drives

[dserban 0]

The very idea of a terabyte of hard drive space available on my PC makes me salivate. I'm already thinking how long it would take to fill that up. I think by that time the first exabyte drive will come out.

The article below takes the latest Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 for a spin and tests its performance, noise levels, and power consumption against 18 other drives to find out how it stacks up.

http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

As for myself, I think I'll wait until the price comes down a bit, and I also think it's a good idea to let many other people test these drives out over extended periods of time. I will also wait for Seagate to come out with their version, because the Seagate drive will have a 5 years warranty, but this one has only 3 year warranty.
Also, after reading around a bit more, some people seem to suggest that Hitachi drives have earned a nickname as "Deathstars" for dying so much. No comment there.

It's a good comparative exploration of recent high-capacity drives, with the smart money being on the Caviar SE16 (750GB).

Edited August 14, 2007 by dserban (see edit history)

[Jeigh1405241495 0]

I almost bought an external terabyte drive the other day, but only because it was on sale for $300 which I figured was a pretty good price. I didn't end up getting it but mostly just because I forgot about it until the sale passed haha. Basically I think having one might be nice but I'm not huge into video editing or anything of that nature so having a massive hard drive just isn't necessary for me. As long as I'm willing to backup stuff I accumulate once in awhile I don't have any problems with drive space with the 200 or so gigs I have now.I'm probably going to be getting a new computer within the next year so I wouldn't be surprised, however, if I put a raptor type high speed drive and a mega secondary drive in it, such as a terabyte which will likely be well review and stress tested by then.

[xboxrulz1405241485 0]

1TB? Not in the near future, nor do I see myself even using that much space. It'll take me a couple years to fill 1TB. It took me 5 years to fill 80GB (pure data).xboxrulz

[Quatrux 4]

Yeah, I don't really need so much space, because I am not working with such big data, nor do I edit video, music files or etc. I don't even keep DVD movies or other movies in my hard drive, I prefer to burn a CD/DVD.. so ~120 to 250GB is the way for me, the main thing for me is that it would be stable, very stable.

[jimmy89 0]

my 320GB external drive is serving me well, and I have hardly filled it up at all! I don;t think I will be needing a TB drive anytime soon!

[xboxrulz1405241485 0]

Maybe the only reason why I WOULD buy the hard drive is to look cool with the cutting edge tech, but its really useless at the moment.xboxrulz

[tansqrx 0]

I used to think bigger the better. That was until I had one of those bad boys died on me and it took forever to restore from backup. Also when I format I usually just leave it on overnight because it takes so long.

[xboxrulz1405241485 0]

Make sure you use the fast format version when formatting the drive. It's so much faster.xboxrulz

[develCuy 0]

We are in the BIG jump again, like from Kb to Mb, Mb to GB and now: GB to Tera.I will buy a "Teradisk" when the needs and money lets me :blink:ABOUT SIZE, CAPACITY, SPEED and moreAt this time, I'm working in a Celeron 1Ghz, 512mb ram, 40GB HD, Nvidia Geforce2 64mb. And is enough to me. Web development doesn't needs a monster CPU/GPU/HD. But every 6 months, there is something new, smaller, stronger, faster, and the entropy is growing: more machines with very different hardware and software. I have to work in standards of usability, browsers, coding. Then, all this is about criteria and needs.AGAIN: If you need one truck, buy one a do your workBlessings!

[xboxrulz1405241485 0]

I think companies should focus more on memory instead of storage since the speed of memory still is creating bottlenecks for the CPU.xboxrulz

[tansqrx 0]

Make sure you use the fast format version when formatting the drive. It's so much faster.
xboxrulz

I suppose I should have been more specific. I run encryption on the disk so it takes around 14 hours for my 500Gb hard drive to be full encrypted.

[wutske 0]

While it all sounds very attractive, I probably won't buy one of those . I currently have a 120Gb HDD and I can still put a lot of images and songs on it and I think I can continue doing this for a year or so (if I don't shoot too much RAW photos ), then I'll probably buy myself 2 160Gb HDD and put them in RAID. The 120Gb HDD wil become my external HDD. 1TB ... tsssss, who needs that much data storage

[kelvinmaki 0]

I would really love to have one of this baby to store all my movies and songs in there. However, looking at the price, not at the moment. Have a 120 GB 2.5' external HDD and always carry it around. Its so portable and able to store so much. So I criteria, the price must be reasonable and must be portable. Not those 3.5' HDD. Would get one if these 2 criteria are met.

[WeaponX 0]

I would love to get one of these Terabyte hard drives. I've been waiting for them for a while now and just won't buy them at the ridiculous prices.This will definitely free up some space in the corner of my closet where I store my other 10+ hard drives (ranging from 120GB to 500GB in size). Having one or two of these puppies will make me a happy geek

[unimatrix 0]

I've had a 1TB RAID server for a couple years, yeah it was about $6000 back in the day and 4x250GB harddives, but...But I've seen external 1TB drives for USD 500. That's not a bad price (again I know 2x500GB). I recently purchased an enclosure that links to a router and can handle upto 2 internal IDE drives for $100 plus the cost drives. I put 2 320GB drives in it and it works like a charm. Especially when I have one Mac rendering and want to access files for another project on a different machine. Makes it a nice central network drive at 1GB/s ethernet (hardwire) for $100. Can't built a cheap PC for that much.