No need. As mentioned in above review mechanical drives hardly saturate SATA 3 Gbit/s
Western Digital 3TB and 2.5TB harddrives announced!
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give it another year or 2 before that price comes down, its always the same case where one could buy 2x2tbs for less money and get more storage....
3tb by all rights should be priced no more then £130 when you compare a 2tb price, even less tbh
For now 2x2tb is cheaper/more....
Would go 2tb route anytime, perhaps after 3-4years might see 4tb drives @ £99
3tb by all rights should be priced no more then £130 when you compare a 2tb price, even less tbh
For now 2x2tb is cheaper/more....
Would go 2tb route anytime, perhaps after 3-4years might see 4tb drives @ £99
give it another year or 2 before that price comes down, its always the same case where one could buy 2x2tbs for less money and get more storage....
3tb by all rights should be priced no more then £130 when you compare a 2tb price, even less tbh
For now 2x2tb is cheaper/more....
Would go 2tb route anytime, perhaps after 3-4years might see 4tb drives @ £99
Well, those with large data storage needs will pay the extra, as on a 4 port card (eg), currently limited to 8Tb, with the new 3Tb drives, you don't need an extra controller (or an upgraded one) and you get an extra 50%.
Personally, I have 12 ports in my server box, but only enough space for 5 drives, well, until I build my hard drive rack for it!
the difference between a 1tb disk and a 2tb disk was huge when they first came out.
i'd give it a few months, the 2s will be priced the same as the 1s are now and the 1.5s will be cheaper than that.
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More the merrier I say !
3.57 TB of useable space out of 6TB of storage.Seems like such a waste
How good are these Drobos?I looked into getting one a few years ago but decided it was too expensive and i would lose too much in the way of storage.
Went the separate backup pc route in the end
How good are these Drobos?I looked into getting one a few years ago but decided it was too expensive and i would lose too much in the way of storage.
Went the separate backup pc route in the end
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Waste? Its not about how much space inaccessible it is about how valuable is your data.
I keep my wedding photo files in there, its not my only copy but its one of the copies and the photos are priceless. Whatever way to lower the chance of data loss is worth it, even if spending 50% of teh capacity in backup.
I keep my wedding photo files in there, its not my only copy but its one of the copies and the photos are priceless. Whatever way to lower the chance of data loss is worth it, even if spending 50% of teh capacity in backup.
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I can boot these drives.
Not that I would want to however :/
Just bought two 2TB Greens too
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The best thing about it is that it is a LIVE daily back up of my data, like time machine of my data.
I keep my OS time machined to my time capsule
I keep my OS time machined to my time capsule
Exactly what I do. Using WHS everything is duplicated. Takes twice the space, but who cares. The data means that much to me. I have a lot of business stuff on there myself, including backups of databases, websites, images etc. I also have backups, but I want a much easier solution, possibly using the cloud.
