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Hard drives larger than 1 TB?
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Well I thought 24 was an excellent show the first five seasons I have watched so far. It's the sixth season that I am having trouble keeping up with. Yes, it's allot of GBs.
I always end up using as much storage as I have. Unfortunately, I always store my data using a mirrored RAID, which means I need to purchase twice the number of drives. Used 2 500 GB for a long time, but now they're full and I've ordered 2x 1TB drives. Part of me feels silly for "wasting" 1 of those potential 2 TB's I've purchased.
It won't seem silly when one of those raid 1 drives fails and you still have all your data.
I do the same thing. Always buy 2 drives at once so I don't have a problem with raid. Better safe than sorry.
Oh, and I have over 2tb of data stored already. Constantly need more HD space. Just filming an hour of video then importing into imovie and idvd takes up like 15GB. Now do that all the time and see home fast you go through drives. I also have a Windows Media Center and that has 2 TB on it and I don't even do raid on that box because who cares if I lose a few episodes of the Rockford Files.
Just out of curiosity, how many hard drives have you ever had legitimately fail on you, as in a hardware failure not fixable by DiskWarrior or the like?
Personally, zero. But I'm a scientist so I need to keep archives of all data, hence the need for storage.
Ah. I've never lost one either (except for one I bought in a computer on eBay that was already dying...... which doesn't count lol..).
But yeah if your data's that critical then I can definitely see that.
Since 1993, I have lost three hard drives. Two were Western Digital and one a Seagate. One of the WDs was a week old and had some stuff stored on it to store away for a year. When I placed it back into a computer, it was dead. Another WD was an external and lasted exactly two years to the month. The Seagate died in a computer.
Several different drives.
One blew a resistor on the circuit board, one would no longer spin up, one got the click of death, one had a SMART fatal error/warning but still worked and three brand new WD 1TB drives out of the box would just give errors when I attempted to format them.
heh
I want more space as well.
I'm a photog.
I have a macpro with 4 x 1tb drives. first drive for OS, 2nd and 3rd drive in raid1 mirror for photos. 4th drive for XP/gaming.
I then have a drobo attached with 4 x 1tb drives which does the time machine stuff.
I then have another drobo at an offsite location attached to a mac mini with another 4 x 1tb drives which does my offsite backups of photos.
it's a heck of a lot of hard drives and I'm always juggling my photos size wise i.e. with archiving old photos off to disc and so on.
I want more space as well.
I'm a photog.
I have a macpro with 4 x 1tb drives. first drive for OS, 2nd and 3rd drive in raid1 mirror for photos. 4th drive for XP/gaming.
I then have a drobo attached with 4 x 1tb drives which does the time machine stuff.
I then have another drobo at an offsite location attached to a mac mini with another 4 x 1tb drives which does my offsite backups of photos.
it's a heck of a lot of hard drives and I'm always juggling my photos size wise i.e. with archiving old photos off to disc and so on.
I think they should work more on getting RMP speeds to 10,000 or 15,000 before thinking about increasing size. I think Wester came out with a 10000RMP HD with 300GB for $350 or so. Still a couple of years away?
correct me anyone if I am wrong, but increasing the density of the drive could very easily increase drive read/write speed more than going from 10k or 15k rmp
You are not wrong. That's why the 7200 rpm Sumsung Spinpoint F1 1 TB gives the 10000 rpm 150 GB Raptor a run for it's money. The new 300 GB version, the Velociraptor does still seem to be faster according to benchmarks...
Damn. Either you've had a lot of drives, or really bad luck. I've had about 15-20 hard drives, and never had one fail. That even includes my laptop which I've taken out in the rain numerous time, thrown across the room, dropped, and thrown on the floor
I wouldn't really count the defective WD drives though, since you received them that way.
Still, crazy.
The 40 MB drive in the Mac Classic actually still functions.
Last night I bought a Airport Express card to install in my Mac Pro. I couldn't see what I was doing on the desk so I laid the computer on the bed right below the ceiling light. Of course I had to remove bay one and two to get to the socket where the card goes. I laid the drives on the bed and after a few minutes, one slid off the bed onto the carpeted floor about 3 feet. Of course it was one of the new 1TB WD drives I had bought last week. Slid the bays back in and plugged it in and the drive was fine. I thought it would be but I was still a little nervous.
There is always the possibility that you damaged a sector and this won't show up until the drive tries to read that exact sector. You would then get the dreaded click click sound.