Seagate May Be Dishing Out 3 TB HDD This Year

[lauxenburg]

[citation][nom]mr_tuel[/nom]i thought that WD already had a 1TB 2.5"...[/citation]

I swore I saw a 2.5in 1TB WD drive on the Egg not so long ago too...

 

[Gin Fushicho]

Yay, more movies and porn.

 

[micky_lund]

[citation][nom]hellwig[/nom]All I ever read is that the long term reliability of these bigs drives is not so good. In fact, wasn't there an article on here (or linked from Tom's) that stated that the number of sectors on the disk, and the MTBF (calculated in accesses or something like that) means you can't read the entire disk without encountering an unrecoverable error? I.e. if the drive may encounter one failure every 1 Trillion accesses, well guess what, that drive has 1 trillion bytes on it, so how quickly will it take to reach that failure count?I'd like to see a reliability article done by Tom's. Put some of these 1TB and 2TB drives into various 24/7 scenarios and see how long they last without failures. These drives are getting bigger, but are they getting more reliable? 3TB is an awful lot of data to lose if you encounter a file system error and have to reformat.[/citation]

hear hear

 

[JohnnyLucky]

Interesting article. I'll have to talk to a couple of IT techs and see what their hard drive experiences has been.

 

[Guest]

[citation][nom]hellwig[/nom]All I ever read is that the long term reliability of these bigs drives is not so good.[/citation]

Same was true for the first 500GB drives a few years ago and every highest end capacity drive ever on the market. Where I would use this is the price drop it would have on the 2TB drives to replace in my backup server. Redundant storage where data duplication results in less available storage but no worries over losing 1 drive.

 

[gm0n3y]

As far as I've heard, Seagate's .10s were great, the .11s were shite and we won't know about the 12s for another 6 months or so. That said, given the .11s, if I we in the market, I would pick a WD drive right now.

 

[kayvonjoon]

imagine one of these things dying on you IF you're without any backups! 3TB of data all f**ked up!

 

[Guest]

http://www.directron.com/wd10tpvt.html

Western Digital 2.5" 1TB drive. This has been out for a couple months now, nothing new.