Seagate Launching "Industry's First" 4TB HDD

[ngoy]

[citation][nom]MMXMonster[/nom]When they are ripped from BluRay using x264 codec. Videos can be anywhere from 2gig up.[/citation]

It isn't near HD quality at 2GB. All the rips are 8GB to 20GB, compressing a a BD to DVD size barely gets you 720P quality.

They should have said 4000 DVDs, a 1GB DVD rip looks somewhat decent. I don't care about how many crappy downrated to ipad quality rips I can put on a drive.

 

[danwat1234]

[citation][nom]johnsmithhatesVLC[/nom]Seagate has a history of making cheap drives with a low mtbf. It's how they drop the prices so low for their products. That's an undeniable fact. 4TB is seriously not going to last long unless seagate has figured out how to fit it into 2 platters.[/citation]

Give it 2 or 3 years for a 2-platter 4TB drive. We'll have 50TB 2-platter drives eventually

 

[danwat1234]

[citation][nom]Tanquen[/nom]Yes (I think) they are. See post above.[/citation]

Well the hard drive manufactures are misleading, that's for sure, but they aren't lying. When you go to buy a 4TB drive, you ARE getting a drive that holds 4TB of data. I hope nobody thinks that that's not true.. but they are misleading and they absolutely should start stating capacities in the base 2 system so the capacities match up in computer land.

 

[BryanFRitt]

I'd like to see a 2043 GB 'portable' version.
(yes, that's a 3 not an 8)

 

[multimediaguy]

I got five of these 4TB drives in October 2011 for my Blu-ray server (currently 730 titles, uncompressed, .ISO format) to replace some 2TB and 3TB drives. In June 2012, after less than 600 hours of use, one of the five drives failed outright & I would have lost 121 titles were they not also on another machine. Now, as of November 6th, with just 676 hours on it (28 days, 4 hours) and a total start/stop count of 362, a second 4TB drive is failing, at 284 bad sectors and climbing. Two out of five drives in one year with hardly any use (the machine is only running when watching or ripping a movie), that's a failure rate of 40%! I will NEVER buy another Seagate product again. In case you're wondering, these drives are Barracuda XTs and have been professionally removed from the enclosures. In my server they operate at 75 to 95 degrees Fahrenheit, as opposed to 140 to 150 degrees in the original plastic enclosure. I've never had a problem with the 2TB Western Digital drives I've used. Perhaps it's time I went back to WD, I'm done with Seagate and their garbage drives. The USB3 adapters that come with these have a very high failure rate as well.