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NqR said:
1-2 weeks as stated above unless you are willing to pay £50 extra.
Hitachi 1TB drives showing up in retail...
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1-2 weeks as stated above unless you are willing to pay £50 extra.
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I'd personally like to congratulate all the folks at OcUK for getting us such a sweet deal, will be great for storage untill the bluray/HD drives come down in price
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Nice price per GB!
Anyone know if these will be as quiet as the current samsungs?
Anyone know if these will be as quiet as the current samsungs?
tomos said:
why, more power requirements, more space needed, more cables to arrange
I'm in same position, I will be buying 5 or 7 of them for my file/print server, I will be using raid on 5 of them and possibly using mirrored raid on the other two. Mine are going into a lian li g50 case so theres definately not enough room for that 10+ drives in there
Great - I will state for the record that no matter what those 'charming people' decide I will NEVER refer to kibibytes, mebibytes, or tebibytes - and I certainly won't let them stop me getting to refer to my yottabyte storage server in years to come
I'm quite surprised at the value of these drives, I hope Seagate's entry to the market will only drive prices lower. The 7200.10 750GB drives were overpriced compared to the current 500GB offerings but Hitatchi has opened with a sensible price.
You're welcome to refer to it as you like, just don't complain that you're 'losing' gigabytes or that hardware manufacturers are trying to rip you off. I don't understand the relunctance to use a system that clears up a major ambiguity in computing.
And for the record, no-one's going to stop you refering to anything in decimal forms. It's quite correct to use 'yottabyte' to refer to a system capable of storing 10^24 bytes.
cavemanoc said:Great - I will state for the record that no matter what those 'charming people' decide I will NEVER refer to kibibytes, mebibytes, or tebibytes - and I certainly won't let them stop me getting to refer to my yottabyte storage server in years to come
You're welcome to refer to it as you like, just don't complain that you're 'losing' gigabytes or that hardware manufacturers are trying to rip you off. I don't understand the relunctance to use a system that clears up a major ambiguity in computing.
And for the record, no-one's going to stop you refering to anything in decimal forms. It's quite correct to use 'yottabyte' to refer to a system capable of storing 10^24 bytes.
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I don't see why OcUK doesn't allow them to be mentioned, as it's not like anyone on here would actually buy from themSlackworth said:
.lsg1r said:
Well the DM9s and DM10s seems quote happy running 24/7 for the last two+ years (array is a seperate fileserver) but I see your point.
I've had one ibm deathstar die, the other has lasted for it's lifetime.
I used to have two mk1 36GB raptors in raid 0, one died just before the 5 years and the other is still going strong in this PC.
I would full format both drives (you can format two simultaneously) even if it did take all night. Quick format isn't guaranteed to verify the drive is fully functional and with 1TB you may find it more of a hassle later if you find it has small problem at 79% through the drive!
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People bash Maxtor a lot, but it really was a bad period in their history, 2002-2005, where their QC wasn't great.
I've got an 850MB Maxtor drive bought in 1996 that not only still works, but works after having had the lid prised off of it and still has 11 year-old files on it.
I've got an 850MB Maxtor drive bought in 1996 that not only still works, but works after having had the lid prised off of it and still has 11 year-old files on it.
