Missing a trick?

immortalcloud · 25 Mar 2010 at 14:57

I wonder if hard drive manufacturers ar emissing a trick here?

The samsung 1tb f3 has 2 500gb in 1 hard drive. So why couldnt they make it so its a 500gb advertised with a backup 500gb built in. Would be a good selling point and im sure they could sell them for more aswell?

Matt

JonJ678 · 25 Mar 2010 at 14:59

You could buy two 500gb 2.5" drives and tape them together for much the same effect. The problem with your suggestion is whatever killed one disk, probably killed the other. You want backups to be offsite ideally, failing that in a cupboard or a different computer.

There might be potential for internal raid 0, which is definitely done by the ssd guys, but I imagine it brings mean time between failures down too far for mechanical drives.

d_brennen · 25 Mar 2010 at 15:01

What in the controller dies or the SATA connector breaks (common for ham fisted DIYers

)? Your data and backup gone

edscdk · 25 Mar 2010 at 15:01

that would be silly, just buy 2x500gb drives..

if its a backup everythign has to be seperate, the controller and motor... it must be a totally seperate device.. or if the wrong bit breaks you loose everything and the backups

Baldrick1001 · 25 Mar 2010 at 23:35

I wonder if hard drive manufacturers ar emissing a trick here?

the HDD manufacturers saw the trick, but didn't like it.... Fortunately there is no such thing as a bad idea, if there was, that would be a contender. :-)

Only kidding - I see where you are coming from, but with back up/resilience it is "good" to have physical separation - two discs in a single HDD would have too many common points of failure to make it a suitable solution.