1 Terabyte Drives Reach Mass Market

http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/25/hitachi-gets-its-one-terabyte-deskstar-7k1000-drives-out-the-doo/
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Admit it, you're a digital pack rat.  You have backup CDs and DVDs strewn about, several external hard drives of varying age and size, and probably a flash thumb drive or three when you need to move files around.  You never seem to have enough space for your entire collection of rare South American butterfly photos and videos.  You've considered those external storage boxes that you slap a few off-the-shelf hard drives into.  But those can be costly before you even buy the first drive.  Not to mention you can't run applications or games off of them because USB 2.0 or Gigabit Ethernet just isn't quite the same as SATA II's 3GB/sec transfer rate.

So you're not sure what to do.  Will you have to abandon your life-long dream to download every episode of Welcome Back Kotter, in every language it was ever broadcast in?  Will you have to start deleting your vacation photos from 1994 when you went to visit the world's largest cheese wheel?  These are tough decisions no technophile should ever have to make.  You deserve more storage space... nay... it is your RIGHT to more storage space!  You should have the ability to store multiple copies of the contents of the Library of Congress on your PC!  Don't stand for hard drive manufacturers forcing you to use 160, 200 or even 500 gigabyte hard drives.  It's time you demanded more!

Well, you're in luck.  Hitachi has finally reached "critical mass" in it's efforts to manufacture and distribute a 1 terabyte drive (well, technically it's 1000 gigabytes, which is 0.976563 terabytes, but those whacky hard drive manufacturers have their own measuring stick).  The Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 is a 7200rpm SATA II drive, and looks to clock in at around $400.  So if you have the cash to lay down, and are worrying about where that next batch of Wombats Gone Wild videos will be stored, start scouring your favorite PC parts stores and sits to see if you can get your hands on them.  As of right now, they're still relatively scarce, with major sites like Newegg.com not yet carrying them.

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Wombats Gone Wild, YOU TOO!?
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Wombats Gone Wild

There are tame ones? ....

Sins of a Solar Empire II
Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Zubaz prepares for next season's Nickie Gone Wild by rushing out and buying a new drive
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
  
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
And running right back home because....I ain't got 400 bucks. Seriously...what would you do with all that space. I've got a 200 gig HD and with all the stuff I have the total is less than twenty percent. I could never fill it up...not that I would
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I have a 160 internal and a 250 external... both are filled to capacity... music, movies, games, and incrimental data backups over the past year or so.

Of course, for $260, you can get two 500GB drives and achieve the same result.

Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Zubaz prepares for next season's Nickie Gone Wild by rushing out and buying a new drive


LMAO!!! You can download images from your brain!?!?! You'll have to teach me that trick!
Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I have 250 on desktop about 220 is used and 100 internal w/40 external on laptop and they are both full!
music, movies,


Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top
ah, sweet sweet storage... i am a media junkie, and i don't know if im willing to try the terabyte yet. plus I'd rater spend the $260 for 2 500 gigs anyway.what really helps is having 8 SATA on your board, then the 500 giggers become a viable option. as of right now, i have:
1.300GB Maxtor 7200RPM 16MB  
2.400GB Western Digital 7200RPM 16MB  
3.750GB Seagate 7200RPM 16MB  
4.160GB Western Digital 5400RPM 8MB   
5.60GB Hitachi Travelsar 4200RPM 2MB   
6.60GB Fujitsu 4200RPM 2MB  
7.250GB Maxtor 7200RPM 8MB   
8.(4) 2GB Flash Drives  
9.256 MB Flash Drive  
10.512MB Flash Drive  

btw, working at a tech store makes getting good prices on drives realllly easy
(not that hard drive prices are high now, anyway)

1 and 2 are in my main gaming/customizing box(1 has OS and Programs, 2 has Media)
3 and 4 are in my server(DNS,Domain,File Storage)(3 is storage, 4 is OS)
5 is in my wonderful Acer Notebook, but my 100GB should be in this week...
6 is in a 2.5 USB enclosure for external storage
7 is just waiting to be put into my main box
2GB Flash Drives are used for quick transfers, incremental backups, and loaning to buddies
256 is empty now, what good is a 256MB flash drive?
512 stores all my tech tools for work.

lets see...1988.75MB, or 1.9TB i need some more space...    
Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I remember when I wondered how I was going to fill up a dvd blank.  
Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I'm still using my old external scsi Zip 100 drive. Does that make me antiquated?
Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top
$400. sounds great even when using the exchange calc it comes to $510. NZ dollars that's until our dollar rate drops.
Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top
hmm seems like i'll be buying a few of those babies when i build me new rig
Reply #14 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I wish I had waited just a little longer . Just purchased another external drive because of to many graphic and 3D programs. After reinstalling XP again I had to have more space.And it's hard to work off Cd's all the time. The Hitachi sounds like this pack rats heaven.
Reply #15 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Two 500s mirrored might be a better idea . . . but a terabyte is cool.
Reply #16 from WinCustomize Forums Top
a couple of 500GB in RAID-0 can be considered a bad idea unless you have another to be used as fault tolerance. Not only do you increase the failure rate of the drives used in a RAID setup but you also consume more energy by going that route.

However, it was never mentioned anywhere to suggest to go with a RAID-0 setup. So yes, generally speaking, a couple of 500GB drives as individual drives is definitely cheaper. But still consumes more energy since you need to power two drives instead of one.

1TB is beyond what I need... at this time. I think it's safe to say that if you got a lot of stuff and you need room, it's time to back up some old files onto a DVD and be done with it. Lately I have been lazy in dumping many of my stuff onto DVD and I have been meaning to transfer some old files from CD to DVD as well.
Reply #18 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Wonder what (time wise) it'd be like to DEFRAG that baby??? Guess you just leave your system on all the time!!

On a similar note...the longest scandisk time I ever had was 26 hours....and it hadn't completed....so I gave up.

Size of drive?.......

 

.....20 meg.

Reply #19 from WinCustomize Forums Top
LOL..Great question George Rogers Jr.
Reply #20 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I use Hitachi drives (mainly). I have XP on a 320Gb, Vista on a 320Gb and backups on 500Gb. All are suprisingly quiet. Also have Maxtor 300Gb and 250Gb both of which are more noisy.

If you are wondering how to defrag all that space, try mst Defrag. It runs in the background (XP only) and constantly keeps your HDs defragged. I very rarely notice it running.