over 1Tb?

Glaucus · 3 Jul 2008 at 20:44

1 Tb drives have been out for a while. Any news on when larger drives are going to be released and if so what size?

Slackworth · 3 Jul 2008 at 21:23

No news yet. Samsung can hardly keep up with 1TB demand as it is!

Glaucus · 3 Jul 2008 at 21:27

Rubbish.. hdds cant keep up with dvd technology.

Tomsk · 4 Jul 2008 at 09:54

The Seagate 1TB is currently 4x250GB and the Hitachi was 5x200GB.
You might see 1.33TB (4x333GB) and 1.66TB (5x333GB) drives.
Seagate are also planning a 2TB drive sometime (no dates available).

lopkinfop · 4 Jul 2008 at 10:16

it does seem to have plateaued for a while, although they have been improving (334gb per platter) also the new eco friendly samsungs will be out soon, maybe they are focusing their efforts on that

bledd · 4 Jul 2008 at 10:37

loving the price of the 1tb drives though

remember kids, backup and backup your backups, or you may cry

AbsenceJam · 4 Jul 2008 at 11:32

This sounds interesting - http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/04/18/oducat_sells_hdd_kit_to_mystery_vendor .

1TB drives have barely just become affordable for the mass market so I don't see manufacturers rushing but I would definitely welcome larger drives as 1TB isn't enough!

Glaucus · 4 Jul 2008 at 13:51

AbsenceJam said:
This sounds interesting - http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/04/18/oducat_sells_hdd_kit_to_mystery_vendor .

Wow I hope this works.. Suppose I will just have to save up for several 1TB drives

RichDuffy · 5 Jul 2008 at 13:05

The trouble is, now that drives have reached such capacities I no longer trust the integrity as I used to. If I lost 200GB of video files it wasn't such a big deal, but losing 900GB? In order for me to consider using 1TB disks I will need to invest in redundancy. RAID 5 maybe.

I can hardly believe there are people out there running massive disks in RAID 0. I couldn't take the risk.

cavemanoc · 5 Jul 2008 at 13:19

Back of a fag packet that could yield between 15-25Tb per drive :eek:

Remember that larger drives actually make your data safer as it becomes easier to back everything up. Imagine you only had 1Tb of data - could be:

5x200Gb
1x1Tb

Using a simple mirror you would need 10 drives in the 1st example and only 2 in the 2nd. Plus your odds of failure are 5x higher in the 1st example as the drives have the same mtbf.

Give me fewer, bigger drives everytime! (Apart from my game drive - give me RAM!!!! muahaaaaaaaahaaaaahaaaa

)

Snapshot · 7 Jul 2008 at 06:37

Drive quality is enormously better than it used to be. The manufacturers wouldn't be offering five year warranties if it wasn't. But, as bledd says, this is no excuse for not backing up your data.

My 'career' in IT has been long enough that I remember the first HDDs for PCs. There was one particular 10MB (Rodime IIRC and I do mean MB) 5.25" full-height drive that, when one failed on site, we used to order two or three from stores so there was a chance we'd get one that wasn't DOA. I also remember a batch of 40MB 5.25" half-height Micropolis drives that failed straight from the box. How often do we get DOA drives these days?