when will we have a 1tb drive?

[RyanMicah]

If you want big storage, just do a raid array. A couple 500GB drives would probably work out cheaper than a single 1Tb drive when they first come out.

Also You could get better perfomance and/or error recovery than a single drive too depending on how you configure it.

isnt there double the chance it will fail?

God, I'm so sick of hearing this. You guys act like we can't backup truly important data on another drive. Raid-0 isn't that likely to fail. Get a couple of good drives, like Seagate and you'll be fine. WD Raptors have a 5 year warranty! They spin at an extra 2.8K rpm too. There are commercial grade drives if you're that worried that are only a few bucks more. Buy them if you're so worried. You put one hdd in and it goes out. You lose EVERYTHING. You put two hdd's in and they go out, you lose EVERYTHING. Backing up your data is important either way. Riskier? Yes. But you ALWAYS run the risk so if it's important to you - make a copy. Raid is great. You want a 1Tera drive, or two 500's seperately, makes little difference. We don't need 1Tera drives that badly. If you're running out of room in your case for hard drives, I feel sorry for you. Thing is, you can save 2TB's of media on your drive, but the odds of you watching it all again are slim. 6,000 songs at 3 minutes is 300 HOURS of listening time. That's roughly 13 days straight of listening time. (takes a minute or so now and then to find the right song, etc) Or, if you listen for just 2 hrs a day, that should last you 156 days. Are you really going to listen to 2 hrs of music a day? Audiophile.

 

[lcdguy]

for what ?

my system ?

what kind of benchmarks ? (compression, media encoding, 3d ?)

 

[biohazard420420]

Actually 1845 hours according to winamp. LOL

 

[enforcer22]

Actualy i have 400gigs of movies i have gone through in two days since im to lazy to find the ones i had to burn to dvd ill be needing a much larger drive. im sure i can go through the other 400gigs of tv shows just as fast and yes i do frequintly watch them.

 

[Dante_Jose_Cuervo]

I hear ya, I've cycled through about 8TB of anime fansubs (I know, I don't have a life, you don't have to remind me 8) ). and I'm still going through more and more each day. Personally, 1TB would be a godsend so I wouldn't have to be deleting these files over and over again to watch an episode of Bleach or TOKKO.

 

[RyanMicah]

As long as you can admit it. I never even said it was a problem. I can think of far worse things than addictions. Like combining them with raising kids or driving. But I can't save the world. To each their own.

 

[Dante_Jose_Cuervo]

Meh,.. I'm happy with this addiction. Personally I'd rather have this addiction over just about any other. It's relatively harmless (although my teachers would love to debate this) and it's free! My only problem is that I hate deleting the files once the whole series comes out on DVD. Anyways

For all you out there, HITACHI is having a 1TB HDD released this winter, maybe november/december and I'm guessing it's going to be part of the "deskstar" series (no not deathstar, I've actually had better luck with hitachi-made hdds than IBM, but aren't they the same thing? The world may never know...). Yeah... I'll put up a link once I stop being lazy........................................................................................................
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[starwhite]

You can get an external drive, VIA a USB cable. It will boast 1 TB, However, it is really 2 500 GB drives. My big thing I am waiting for is when the they release a new type of HD in development. THe idea is to eliminate the clunky,
magnetic storage platters current HDs use. This is a major bottleneck in speed and performance. It will use flash memory like the current USB thumb drives. This will be much faster, less chance of failure.

 

[RyanMicah]

I thought we already mentioned these drives? Samsung and Hitachi are already coming out with them...geared for laptops.

 

[enforcer22]

I knew samsung was coming out with a fully flash HD componant but I thought all the major HD makers were making hybrids but hell if Hitachi does make one thats my fav drives so ill have to look into one for a main drive to run my mose used apps. Samsung might make good monitors but never used a HD from them or thier ram really.

 

[Dante_Jose_Cuervo]

Yeah, I know, except one problem: too expensive and not NEARLY enough storage space. I'll still to platters right now since they're cheaper, speed isn't too much of a concern with me right now when it comes to anime.

 

[RyanMicah]

Actually Enforcer, Samsung makes a LOT of name brand RAM. They sell it to other companies who sell it under their own name. They also make great monitors. Samsung's been in the business awhile. I'd buy a flash memory HDD from them if it was a good price and came with a decent warranty, in a heartbeat. I think you're going to see today's HDD's hit 1T and be used as backup drives much like tape drives are. For regular faster drives I believe flash ram will take over.

 

[enforcer22]

yeah i know they make ram just never used it on my own rig. I try and buy ram using winbond chips if possible.

 

[RyanMicah]

Ah. I think a lot of people try to buy Winbond as well.