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rubric
Joined: 28 Oct 2006
Location: Pongdongfongyong
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 Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 4:52 pm Post subject: 1 TB Drives |
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Anyone got hold of a 1TB drive?
How much/where from/etc?
Any issues with heat and noise? I'm looking to use it as an external.
I read that the Samsung isn't as reliable being four disks instead of Seagates/WD's two disks. |
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spliff
Joined: 19 Jan 2004
Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 6:59 pm Post subject: |
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| You could always get 2x500GB drives, which are fairly quiet and reliable, for around 215,000. Still a bit cheaper than a single 1TB. |
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TheChickenLover
Joined: 17 Dec 2007
Location: The Chicken Coop
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| Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 8:44 pm Post subject: |
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I own 6 x 1TB drives. I bought from Western Digital. Samsung drives seem to have been crapping out on my at a far larger % than other drives. No problems at all so far.
Chicken |
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rubric
Joined: 28 Oct 2006
Location: Pongdongfongyong
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| Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 9:10 pm Post subject: |
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I weakened and ended up getting a Samsung 750g for 150 + nice case with fan for 40.
I may wait till the end of the year to pick up a couple of 1tbs. Hopefully the price will drop to nearer the 200 mark. 750'll do for now I spose. Thanks for the link and feedback. |
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hanguker
Joined: 16 Mar 2005
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 10:46 pm Post subject: |
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mmm...6TB  |
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cangel
Joined: 19 Jun 2003
Location: Jeonju, S. Korea
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| Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 11:15 pm Post subject: |
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| Just out of curiousity, what do you do that requires 6TBs of storage? |
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Ut videam
Joined: 07 Dec 2007
Location: Pocheon-si, Gyeonggi-do
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| Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 11:28 pm Post subject: |
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| cangel wrote: |
| Just out of curiousity, what do you do that requires 6TBs of storage? |
Porn, porn, porn! 
(I kid, of course. TheChickenLover is married, and to some sort of police/prosecution official at that!) |
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Easter Clark
Joined: 18 Nov 2007
Location: Hiding from Yie Eun-woong
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| Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 2:33 pm Post subject: |
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| cangel wrote: |
| Just out of curiousity, what do you do that requires 6TBs of storage? |
He could host his own forum with storage like that.  |
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Demophobe
Joined: 17 May 2004
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| Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 3:27 am Post subject: |
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| Easter Clark wrote: |
| cangel wrote: |
| Just out of curiousity, what do you do that requires 6TBs of storage? |
He could host his own forum with storage like that. |
You can do that with a lot less than 6TB. |
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pkang0202
Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 4:58 am Post subject: |
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Over the many years, I've gone through many hard drive brands, Seagate, WD, Samsung, IBM Deathstars *ahem* Deskstars.
I've found that all of them fail at about the same rate. I've had 10 WD drives, 3 which I've had to RMA, 6 IBM's, 4 which I had to RMA, 5 Samsung drives, 1 which I had to RMA but 1 more which made a strange whining sound while spinning up, but it worked perfectly fine so I just lived with it, and 12 Seagate Drives, 3 which I've RMA'ed.
My advice for Hard Drives, screw reliability. Get whichever has the longest/best warranty period. My favorite now is Seagate. 5 years and they ask no questions when you RMA. |
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Demophobe
Joined: 17 May 2004
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| Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 5:02 pm Post subject: |
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Failure rates for all tech products are escalating. Mainboards, RAM and HDDs.
I will never buy a 1TB drive, or even a 500GB one for that reason; it will lull me into not backing things up. To lose 1TB of data would be opening a big box of bad.
As it stands, I get by well with 2x250GB (internal), 2x120GB (external). Never ran out of space and if it does start filling up, it forces me to backup.
I guess if I were a big movie/TV show downloader, my thinking would change. To lose a bunch of those wouldn't be a big deal, but work files, pictures and music (rare stuff)...that would be catastrophic. |
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OneWayTraffic
Joined: 14 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 11:01 pm Post subject: |
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| Demophobe wrote: |
Failure rates for all tech products are escalating. Mainboards, RAM and HDDs.
I will never buy a 1TB drive, or even a 500GB one for that reason; it will lull me into not backing things up. To lose 1TB of data would be opening a big box of bad.
As it stands, I get by well with 2x250GB (internal), 2x120GB (external). Never ran out of space and if it does start filling up, it forces me to backup.
I guess if I were a big movie/TV show downloader, my thinking would change. To lose a bunch of those wouldn't be a big deal, but work files, pictures and music (rare stuff)...that would be catastrophic. |
And I will never need any more than 640KB.
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Easter Clark
Joined: 18 Nov 2007
Location: Hiding from Yie Eun-woong
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| Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 11:37 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah, I remember having a 64 MB (that's megabyte) hard drive thinking "That's all anyone would ever need!" That was on a machine with 4MB (that's megabytes) of RAM!
These days I'm thinking the sky's the limit. It's only a matter of time until storage will no longer be an issue -everything will be stored on the internet rendering hard drives obsolete or at least unnecessary- and 128GB of RAM will be commonplace. |
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Demophobe
Joined: 17 May 2004
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| Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 12:04 am Post subject: |
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| OneWayTraffic wrote: |
And I will never need any more than 640KB.
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I will get more storage when it goes solid state. Magnetic storage is dead. |
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