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Airbozo
11-09-2007, 05:22 PM
Here is a good article on the new terrabyte drives.

http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/11/05/the_terabyte_battle/index.html

Good read on the differences.

Hitachi and Seagate tie for the best performer.
WD is the "greenest" and quietest.
Seagate has the best warranty with 5 years.
Samsung is still absent.

They also mention the Flash drives in the article and allude to the fact they are slower than sata?!

FYI: I have 12 of the Hitachi's in test using IOmeter to validate the performance and I am just now installing 16 of the Seagate's for another custy... FEAR MY 38TB of storage!
xRyokenx
11-09-2007, 05:24 PM
FYI: I have 12 of the Hitachi's in test using IOmeter to validate the performance and I am just now installing 16 of the Seagate's for another custy... FEAR MY 38TB of storage!

That's a lot of prawn!

jkjk

Dude, what do you do with that storage? lol
Luke122
11-09-2007, 05:27 PM
That IS a lot of pr0n!

Lol.. probaby some webhosting company or something. :D
xRyokenx
11-09-2007, 05:28 PM
That IS a lot of pr0n!

Eww... you creep. I was talking about sea food! :p
Airbozo
11-09-2007, 05:29 PM
That's a lot of prawn!


MMMM 1000+ hrs of HD bangin'!

jkjk

Dude, what do you do with that storage? lol

It is for our customers. The one using the Hitachi's is creating his own storage array for a product he engineers and sells. The other customer is using the Seagate's (8TB in each system), for collecting and distributing weather data;
http://www.weatherunderground.com/
DaJe
11-09-2007, 09:36 PM
I myself prefer Seagate for hard drives. And with that recent lawsuit, they should just start considering 1024KB as 1GB >_>
Zephik
11-09-2007, 09:50 PM
I myself prefer Seagate for hard drives. And with that recent lawsuit, they should just start considering 1024KB as 1GB >_>

Yea, isn't that like seven gigabytes for a three hundred and twenty gigabyte hard drive? So if a manufacturer builds their hard drives on the one thousand megabytes in a gigabyte specs instead of the one thousand twenty four megabytes in a gigabyte specs, then they advertise it has three hundred twenty gigabytes altogether, then their lying to me aren't they? Because my three hundred twenty is actually only three hundred thirteen? Right? Maybe I'm confused, maybe because I typed out my numbers instead of just using actual numbers. lol
Mitternacht
11-09-2007, 09:55 PM
That's a lot of prawn!

jkjk

Dude, what do you do with that storage? lol

I can easily see most of that storage being used for HDDVD's and Blu-Ray discs ripped/backed up on computers.
xRyokenx
11-09-2007, 11:40 PM
I can easily see most of that storage being used for HDDVD's and Blu-Ray discs ripped/backed up on computers.

That or video editing.
crenn
11-09-2007, 11:53 PM
Actually for 320GB drives, you get 298GB of space. And yes, I can confirm this.
slytherock
11-10-2007, 01:00 AM
Actually for 320GB drives, you get 298GB of space. And yes, I can confirm this.

And it's a rip off... say it's a 300 GB and I'll buy it. I can imagine that in 10 years 10TB will be a jk... Long life to the HDD market!!!
DaJe
11-10-2007, 02:06 AM
And for a 400GB hard drive you get 372GB. Which is why I don't want to get a terrabyte hard drive and have it ben short a ton of GB.
khalie
11-10-2007, 05:59 AM
And for a 400GB hard drive you get 372GB. Which is why I don't want to get a terrabyte hard drive and have it ben short a ton of GB.

agree on 1TB we loose something like 69GB :( thats a lot of space. So why they call it 1TB?! It should be 931.322GB!!
cured
11-10-2007, 08:57 AM
man i struggle to fill 70GB... but i deleted alot of my movies..

BUT DANG 38TB? wowowowow
Crimson Sky
11-10-2007, 09:16 AM
Like the artricle said, as soon as WD makes us a new Raptor, they will smoke the competition. A Raid-0 Raptor array is cheap sweetness.
khalie
11-10-2007, 04:24 PM
man i struggle to fill 70GB... but i deleted alot of my movies..


thats what i said when i bought my 160gb seagate but then after 3 weeks dang i needed another hd :(
stewart123
11-13-2007, 12:33 PM
I can easily see most of that storage being used for HDDVD's and Blu-Ray discs ripped/backed up on computers.

I can see it being used for HD content, but if I remember correctly BluRay has already developed a technology for 200gb disc which will replace the backup method of hard drives adventually. DVD\Cd's have never been used commonly because of the lack of space. Machines will adventually have BluRay built right in. Or you may see RAM chips start moving towards storage chips - but they still have not been proven to be quick enough and not large enough.