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- TomT127, on 03/06/2009, -4/+67Might be time to upgrade my 8 GB hard drive.
- inactive, on 03/06/2009, -0/+46it doesn't matter which manufacturer it is, and my comment would look silly in 2 years, but is anyone else slightly nervous about having 2tb on a single drive?
- specialK16, on 03/06/2009, -2/+32No it doesn't.
- sidizzle, on 03/06/2009, -0/+28I'm nervous about having any amount of data on a single drive.
Backup your data. - majortom1981, on 03/06/2009, -0/+19Isnt it SEAGATE that hdd drives are dying? This is samsung wich is a diff company.
- meeting, on 03/05/2009, -2/+21I still want a SSD, but this could quite possibly go into my new build
- khaosx2030, on 03/06/2009, -1/+17Did somebody order a Samsung Pizza?
- pathouston22, on 03/06/2009, -3/+19Only hardrive brands I buy are Western Digital or Seagate. Everybody else outsources too much of their hardrive production for my satisfaction. Tomshardware had a chart once showing who manfactured vs outsourced certain components of their hardrives.
Data is too important to be dealing with 3rd parties. - m3arvk, on 03/06/2009, -0/+12I can remember when the first 20 GB drives came out. People were talking about how you'd _never_ fill them.
- musntSurfatWork, on 03/06/2009, -3/+15seems like yesterday when I splurged $300 on a 250Megabyte Conner IDE with 0 meg cache and ... but hey it held sooo many DOS games!
- inactive, on 03/06/2009, -1/+11OH, GOOD FOR YOU...
- sidizzle, on 03/06/2009, -0/+9$149...***** I'm getting old.
- colincornaby, on 03/05/2009, -2/+11As much as I dislike Seagate, the Seagate 1.5 TB is still cheaper, and they come fixed now... I just bought one for my Mac Pro at Frys for $119. It's been working fine and it hasn't caught fire yet... so...
- rolf, on 03/06/2009, -1/+9In the near term, until SSD catches up in size, I'm perfectly happy to make 60-120GB my main laptop/desktop drive and keep the mechanical hard drives as an external drive to back up and store stuff I don't need really need to take with me.
- Mootabolife, on 03/06/2009, -1/+9Why? SSDs are high end..
- CalcProgrammer1, on 03/06/2009, -0/+8It's a 4 platter drive but it's still really quiet, I got mine in December, updated the firmware, and it runs fine. I don't know what the big deal was, mine never had an issue even with the old firmware.
- Bob24, on 03/06/2009, -0/+7Samsung are known for making some of the most reliable drives on the market...
- inactive, on 03/06/2009, -0/+7That's pretty small.
- inactive, on 03/06/2009, -0/+7Samsung is claiming to have the first 500 GB per platter drives, which is not true, Seagate 7200.12's use 500 GB platters and they've been out for weeks now.
- sexybobo, on 03/06/2009, -0/+7I am only 20 and i still remember paying $149 for a 20GB drive
- S2000, on 03/06/2009, -0/+7Comment. Retarded.
- jer21, on 03/06/2009, -0/+7that's what she said?
- the13thzen, on 03/06/2009, -0/+6I thought you were talking about RAM at first.
- danno147, on 03/06/2009, -0/+6How soon before this is on newegg?
- sidizzle, on 03/06/2009, -0/+6I see no use for a SSD drive in our consumer market right now other than the use in laptops and other portable devices. The speeds just not there and especially not the cost.
- bstock, on 03/06/2009, -0/+6You overlook the fact that many raid setups (mdadm on linux for one) runs occasional checks, so once/week my raid array checks for errors on a drive, if it finds any bad sectors, marks it bad and repairs while the other drives are in tact.
Plus, there's always RAID 6. - SpoonMSU, on 03/06/2009, -1/+7**Insert small genitalia insult here**
- Solkre, on 03/06/2009, -0/+6Soon!
- tomz17, on 03/06/2009, -1/+7It's not just the firmware (which was responsible for frequent lock-ups in some configurations)... it's the fact that these drives have an absurd failure rate (even after firmware update). Just do a google search for the model number. Some sources peg it at 30%+!!!
I have one of the 4 platter 1.5TB drives too, but I'm under no illusion here. Nothing important is stored on it! - sexybobo, on 03/06/2009, -0/+6People are more optimistic now. I have 3 1.5tb drives in my file server and i can see me running out of room quickly.
- SierraAlpha, on 03/06/2009, -0/+5Funny enough I've had terrible luck with Seagate drives and only Seagate drives. I've owned three over the past five years and they all stopped working more or less randomly.
- hagiaso, on 03/06/2009, -0/+5slickdeals.net is your friend
http://forums.slickdeals.net/forumdisplay.php?f=9 - sexybobo, on 03/06/2009, -0/+5Most of the seagate problems went away with last firmware update any way.
- hagiaso, on 03/06/2009, -0/+4They're getting there: http://img.tomshardware.com/uk/2007/02/19/harddriv ...
- Murdats, on 03/06/2009, -0/+4how many platters though?
- FAHQ2, on 03/06/2009, -0/+4Seagate 7200.12, are also 500GB per platter.
I have 3 x (500GB) 1 platter drives right here on my desk, and i bought them weeks ago.
So I don't know why Samsung claims they are the first, to make 500GB per platter drives? - warriorscot, on 03/06/2009, -0/+4Never had a problem with Samsungs myself. The only drive I have ever had die early was a Seagate.
But hard drives are a consumable really. They will eventually wear out on a drive with a 3 year warranty they will usually go to 5 years of solid use before dying on a 5 year warranty drive you can get 7 maybe 8 years from it. In then end they all die. - sexybobo, on 03/06/2009, -0/+4@nesagwa
I will admit seagate rushed to marked to have the first over 1tb hdd but with the latest firmware the driver are a solid as any other manufacturers. - Changa, on 03/06/2009, -0/+4I still remember paying $119 for a 40 Meg Drive.
- NOFXY, on 03/06/2009, -0/+4Short answer: No
Long answer: Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo - lilrabbit129, on 03/06/2009, -0/+4RAID is not a backup. Its for uptime and redundancy. It will protect you against drive failure. ( which is great). But it will not prevent you from accidentally erasing everything on there or corrupting everything.
Just a caveat. With that said I basically use my RAID as a backup as well. - nonymous666, on 03/06/2009, -3/+6No, seagate's drive is four platter, not three.
- bigteebo, on 03/06/2009, -0/+3I never had a single failure with WD drives. Ever. They have me as a customer for life.
- klowngoblin, on 03/06/2009, -0/+3then use Raid 6
- djbon2112, on 03/06/2009, -0/+3Use RAID 6 (short-term solution, as the article says) and move to RAID 10 as a long-term solution. You halve your data capacity, but you have a full mirror of your data (still NOT a backup, but much better than just RAID 5), and with 1.5 TB drives for $149 ($1 for 10 GB!!!), losing that space might not be so painful.
- shootsfired, on 03/06/2009, -0/+3RAID also won't protect you from user error, negligence, theft, fire, act's of GOD.
Always have an off site backup solution. - blah247, on 03/06/2009, -0/+3Isn't there an issue with write cycles on SSD drives which causes them to become less efficient and slower over time?
- klowngoblin, on 03/06/2009, -1/+4so when will Macs get this? 5 years later?
- sexybobo, on 03/06/2009, -0/+3"9 and 10 year old 10-15gb drives" don't get used is why they last so long.
At my work we have a lot of old p3 systems that we give out to departments if they need a temporary PC and don't want to pay much for it.
We always replace the old HDD because even though they work once you start using them they start falling apart. hardly any last more then 3 months alot fail days after they are put back in to use.
We have put about 100 of these PC's into use before we started replacing the drives due to the 99% failure rate after 7 months. - randmcnally, on 03/06/2009, -0/+3Seagate sucks by my experiences - WD or nothing.
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