How big is 1TB?

Simian said:
(or 5x 250Gb if you want a RAID5 :D )
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You don’t need 5 hard drives for RAID5. The number is the type of RAID set up, and in the case of RAID5, can be done with as little as 3. Edit: Just realised after posting though that you are probably refering to the amount needed in R5 to actually have a TB of space?


Is there a link to a source for this news? I can’t see this coming out very soon. With the current cost of flash memory, surely it would cost in excess of 5k?
 
Redrum said:
You don’t need 5 hard drives for RAID5. The number is the type of RAID set up, and in the case of RAID5, can be done with as little as 3. Edit: Just realised after posting though that you are probably refering to the amount needed in R5 to actually have a TB of space?


Is there a link to a source for this news? I can’t see this coming out very soon. With the current cost of flash memory, surely it would cost in excess of 5k?
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Don't think he really meant solid state ;)
 
The drives will retail around £700 and they have been working on them for the last 8 months or so.

Due out in May in the usual Barracuda 7200.10/11 flavours with Read/Write heads that I participated in making only last night ;)
 
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paradigm said:
No.

Angus Higgins
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Technically, Gi should refer to 2^40, whereas G should refer to 10^9. Using giga to refer to 2^40 is inconsistent with the standard SI prefixes.

Of course, no one uses the Gi prefix, but it makes a lot more sense to have two separate prefixes that preserve the true meaning of giga, according to the SI. More info on binary prefixes here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefixes.
 
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divosuk said:
The drives will retail around £700 and they have been working on them for the last 8 months or so.

Due out in May in the usual Barracuda 7200.10/11 flavours with Read/Write heads that I participated in making only last night ;)
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not worth the money IMHO.
 
Just Imageine when that fails though. Bye bye 1TB of data! :p

Thats partly why I stick with smaller drives. :D

Slightly OT but why does there always have to be 8MB spare on HDDs when they are partitioned? Indexing or something?
 
good grief

a few years ago when i worked in IT for a bank we moved 1.5 tb of IBM winchester storage up from London to a data centre else where it took a whole weekend and four Bullins big computer moving vans ( large house moving size ) and about five hours for the sparks to get all the 60 amp 3 phase boxes conneted and about 5 miles of data cables ( pre fiber optics )


now you tell me you are going to get 1 tb on a 3.5 HDD , got to go and sit down :D
 
Yep, things have certainly moved on a lot. You can get boxes with 1TB of RAM these days nevermind HDD (ok they are more like cabinets than boxes, but you get the idea). Saying that, it does seem that progress in the area of HDDs (both size and speed) has been much slower than other areas... CPUs, graphics etc.
 
so hold on...have I had too many beers this afternoon or is everyone getting solid state and 3.5" HD's confussed.

a pen drive = solid state. 3.5" = not solid state.

1TB HD's have been aroound on a NON-commercial level for a while surely we only ever see 2 year old technology.

anyways regardless. solid state = solid state. not a spinny disk.

and regardless 2:
when are OCUK taking stock? pre order avaliable?
 
I cant wait until we see proper solid state drives with large storage, the only home user one thats appeared seems to be the Samsung flash one aimed at laptops with 32 gig.

At least things are moving in the right direction.
 
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