Good article on Terrabyte drives

[Airbozo]

Here is a good article on the new terrabyte drives.

http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/11/...tle/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]

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]

That IS a lot of pr0n!

Lol.. probaby some webhosting company or something.

[xRyokenx]

That IS a lot of pr0n!

Eww... you creep. I was talking about sea food! :p

[Airbozo]

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]

I myself prefer Seagate for hard drives. And with that recent lawsuit, they should just start considering 1024KB as 1GB >_>

[Zephik]

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]

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]

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]

Actually for 320GB drives, you get 298GB of space. And yes, I can confirm this.