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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+48In case you die? The odds are you will certainly die.
- rackrent, on 10/12/2007, -1/+42Wow...I am soooo going to get perpendicular!
http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/research/recording_head/pr/PerpendicularAnimation.html - vsujohn2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+29Mmmm..... 931.32GB never sounded so tempting before
- aldenhg, on 10/12/2007, -3/+29Finally, a place for my illegally downloaded porn, music and movies! Sure beats those backup tapes.
- cyssero, on 04/18/2009, -0/+21HD video editing of... porn?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21I am going to have my entire DNA structure scanned and stored on it so I can be Re-Animated in case I die
- drvelocity, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18The worst thing about a terabyte HD: Having to buy a second terabyte hard drive to back it up.
Either that or risk losing a ***** of data when the inevitable crash occurs. - gccsilver, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15Someone needs to start selling it at the MSRP. CDW is charging 450, instead of 400.
Also, there are legitimate reasons for needing this drive. HD video editing takes up a hell of a lot of space. - scabbers, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18I'm amazed they're still using the infamous DESKSTAR name. click click click
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15Deskstar...more like Pornstar
- Otto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13>>>"As far as I know, they don't shoot porn in HD yet."
Actually, they do. They just don't sell it on BluRay. HD Porn is HD-DVD exclusive.
Porn always has the latest technology on their side. - Darph.Bobo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13I'll wait until Seagate releases one with a 5 year warranty.
- ElbridgeGerry, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12And to think, this will be SMALL in about a decade.
- MasterChi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Defrag is the least of my worries with a drive this big, Secure formatting a terabyte drive would take a month.
- BuzzLightyear, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14click click click ARGHHHH!!!
No Deathstar for me thanks.
Once bitten.. - LordSkywalker, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Buy 2 500GB drives for $250 instead. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152052
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11"Is Two Terabytes really better than One?"
Short answer : Yes.
Longer answer : Yes, and I can't believe they even asked that question. - beccabob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9From what I understand, the increase in platter density has as much to do with overall data transfer rate as does the RPM of the drive. This makes it so that even though you may get quite a bit higher effective linear and rotational velocities with higher RPM drives, but if you pack the data 3-4 times more densely, as with perpendicular recording, the overall transfer rate can be higher at a slower RPM.
- gccsilver, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11The problem with that is some people just don't have the space in their case. I have two 500s, one 750, one 320, one 250, and one 120 (my OS is on this) in my case. My case is a beast and can hold nine 3.5" drives, but most people don't have a case like that (or a good enough psu). Even with all that space, I would prefer to actually get rid of my two smaller drives and get two of these drives instead. If I did what you're suggesting and I wanted to add 2TB of space I would need four drives instead of just two. That means four SATA connectors instead of just two and four power connectors instead of just two, That would take up more power, more ports, and more space. Saving that power, ports, and space is worth the added cost to me; and is likely the case with other people who will buy this drive.
- vroom101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Deskstar 7K1000 specifications from Hitachi Global Storage Technologies:
http://www.hgst.com/portal/site/en/menuitem.8027a91c954924ae4bda9f30eac4f0a0/ - bariswheel, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10But how quiet is it? Very important to me. I have a pair of seagate drives, all I hear from my antec sonata computer is them clicking when being read or written to. I listen to machines purring all day at work, don't want to listen to this at home.
But holy cwap that's a lot of porn. - computergod, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9^^^ Just change it's sound settings. Access time will increase, but it will be quiet when the arm is moving.
Looks like they are still using the old 'DeathStar' design, I'm not touching it. IIRC there was a TB HD I saw over a year ago on tomshardware.com, but it was a full height 2" drive. - skinfitz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8"Looks like they are still using the old 'DeathStar' design, I'm not touching it"
Hear hear - I got burned with a Deskstar 75GXP a few years ago that would die and corrupt when it got warm - I have never bought an IBM / Hitachi drive since. - JohnboiWaltune, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8A ripped HD-DVD/Blu-Ray takes about 21GB. There will be a consumer market for this.
- kelpdip, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Oh my god! This is the best educational flash video on the internet!
- qwertykeyboard, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Defragging a hard drive this big would take some time.. specially those filled with videos and MP3 ahehehe..
- xelloss, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I don't know if I could trust a Terabyte worth of data on one drive o.O
- SuperSloth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Ext2/3/etc *do* become fragmented. If you use upwards of 80% of your disk or you create and delete a lot of both small and very large files , you *will* fragment your disk. Linux file systems are much more resistant to fragmentation, but they're not immune. DVD ripping and encoding, for example, combined with installing and uninstalling many different apps is all but guaranteed to fragment your disk in adverse ways. If you have a 20 GB partition and try to write a 5 GB file to it, it's going to be fragmented under Ext2/3 if you've got more than a few dozen other files on the disk thanks to the math involved.
The problem then becomes that there are no tools to defragment ext2/3 because everyone thinks it can't be a problem. - ddast, on 10/12/2007, -7/+13"We're guessing if you need one terabyte of data, in a 3.5-inch enclosure, spinning at 7,200 RPM and hooked up to your computer, you know who you are!"
A guy with lots of porn? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Too bad it's not Vista Optimized with built in flash memory.
This drive has 32MB buffer. If I use it as the OS drive, will it be faster than my 200gb with 16MB? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9God damnit that's twice now Digg isn't letting me reply to the correct comment.
Fix your ***** comment system Digg! - amigiac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Surely fragmentation would be less of a problem due to all the blank space. :)
- Owned1Up, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Amen, and anyone that recommends buying from tigerdirect should be dragged out into the street and beat with his own self respect.
- crestfall, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7I am no hdd expert, but what the hell is going on in the speed department? 10 - 15 k is the max I've seen, with 7200 being the standard. For multi-tracking audio, and I'm sure for video recording and other applications, there are a lot of people out there who would like higher speeds at lower prices, or at least a wider selection of high-speed drives. Is it not possible to transfer the data fast enough on SATA to justify a faster spindle speed? it just seems that everyone's chasing the prize for most storage capacity, and that highest speed or transfer rate has been neglected... at least in terms of dropping the prices.
- msgyrd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5So....my years of computer science training was all wrong. Disco music is all it takes to manipulate data. It's all so obvious now.
- ihate2regist, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Remember to turn up the sound.
- EBFoxbat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5"all I hear from my antec sonata computer is them clicking when being read or written to"
uhhh... you might want to check that. - snapple, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6hey so how's it going?
- Eccohawk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3seriously, n0ydz, go get greasemonkey and a digg comment script. you'll save yourself a lot of hassle.
- CraigB12, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3These are going to make SAN solutions a whole hell of a lot smaller. The company I work for just bought another 45 Terabytes for its SAN in Waltham, MA and it takes up almost an entire rack. Using terabyte drives it would take up less than 8U.
- Snakedal337, on 10/12/2007, -5/+8Do people still do that?
I thought de-frags were left in the past with Fat32 and whatnot. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4"Looks like they are still using the old 'DeathStar' design, I'm not touching it"
Exactly... I've seen 3 dead 'DeathStar' drives in the last month and a half, 2xHitachi (500GB) and 1xIBM (old 60GB)... Steer clear.. - stefpet, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Three articles at AnandTech about this drive...
Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000: Terabyte Storage arrives on the Desktop
http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=2949
Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 in RAID 0: Is Two Terabytes really better than One?
http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=2969
Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000: Two Terabyte RAID Redux
http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=2974 - Neorio, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I gave the whole 1TB drive thing some thought, and here's what I came up with.
500GB drives are at a price sweetspot at the moment. It would be faster, cheaper, and hold more storage to get 4x500GB drives,and then whack them into a ZFS RAIDz1. Fault tolerance of one of four dead drives (as opposed to one of two in a 2x1TB mirror). Cheaper cost of replacement of drives. Faster then two mirrored 1TB drives. Total storage space= 1.5TB
Now all I want is for FreeBSD 7.0 and ZFS to go stable (twiddles thumbs for the next 12 months) - cyranthus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3$399 actually isnt too bad for a whole freakin terabyte!! Doesn't WD's 1TB external go for something around $599 +?
- arbiterusa, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Wow. Thanks. That's like a blend of "Schoolhouse Rock" and about ten times the normal dose of LSD.
- stopple, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3maan.. back in the day i had [variable] of HD space and i thought id never fill it up!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I have a 40 MB RLL drive, I can let it go for 50% off what I paid; $1200.00.........
- SuperSloth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@bariswheel: Download the SeaTools CD and use it to adjust the acoustic setting on your disks. Some PCs even have this setting in the BIOS.
- cquinnd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I remember when people used to say the same thing about 10 Gig drives.
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