Terabyte hard drive

[tedski]

Jan 16, 2007 ... Hitachi Global Storage Technologies showed off the first terabyte (TB) hard drive. Hitachi's Deskstar 7K1000 will begin shipping to retail customers in the first quarter of 2007 at a suggested retail price of $399 (USD), or 40 cents per gigabyte (GB). This new consumer-friendly price makes ultra-high storage capacity more affordable and accessible than ever before. Along with the Deskstar 7K1000 for the retail market, Hitachi is also announcing today a CinemaStar version 1TB hard drive, which provides optimized capabilities specifically designed for digital video recording (DVR) applications. The 3.5-inch, 7200 RPM Parallel-ATA/Serial-ATA hard drives are built on the industry's most reliable perpendicular magnetic recording technology, first established with Hitachi's Travelstar 2.5-inch and 1.8-inch product lines. Hitachi will also come out with a similar 750GB drive. Rival Seagate Technology will come out with a 1 terabyte drive in the first half of 2007.

Damn ... and I remember when 100MB was a big capacity hard drive.

 

[Jwrussell]

Wow, that's one hell of a price. Going to be necessary here pretty soon for anyone using there computer to store video.

 

[jrohrer]

that's a whole lotta storage.

you could fill that with mp3's and NEVER listen to the same song twice...for the rest of your life!

 

[derek]

I seen the Maxtor Terabyte External, but its a little more then that and I want it.

 

[cvm4]

Damn that's some space there!

 

[Mikes]

at 30 gigs to rip an hd dvd or bluray disk...this will get filled up quick ) What I want is 10 of em and all of the hd movies i can get at one time from netflix to make my own ho,e based movie server. muhahaaaa

kinda like this:

http://www.kaleidescape.com/files/datasheets/Kaleidescape-1U-Server.pdf

nice find btw on these new servers I was wondering when they were coming out.

 

[Sticks]

That's unreal. My first computer was a Tandy XT (before 286) and had no hard drive, I added one a few months later. It was 40MB (that's right megabytes) and cost me $420.00 with tax. How times have changed!!

 

[joshua]

We have one customer at work that sent up a 750GB drive a couple months ago. It was just a matter of time before this happened. The good news is 500GB drives keep going on sale for around $140, when this comes out they will keep going down.

 

[N8NOE]

That's unreal. My first computer was a Tandy XT (before 286) and had no hard drive, I added one a few months later. It was 40MB (that's right megabytes) and cost me $420.00 with tax. How times have changed!!

My First "Very First" Hard Drive was 2Meg in a Compaq Portable I had. The Compaq Portable looked like a sewing machine for those how might remember them. The 2 Meg Drive cost me $275.00, but included a bootable DOS (I think it was) Ver. 1.2... I then Upgraded the CPU to the "FAST" 8086 @ 8Mhz, another $200+-.. HELL, I was Cool at that point!
Jeff

 

[ATCDub]

My First "Very First" Hard Drive was 2Meg in a Compaq Portable I had. The Compaq Portable looked like a sewing machine for those how might remember them. The 2 Meg Drive cost me $275.00, but included a bootable DOS (I think it was) Ver. 1.2... I then Upgraded the CPU to the "FAST" 8086 @ 8Mhz, another $200+-.. HELL, I was Cool at that point!
Jeff

With a little baby screen. Those were badass.

 

[Jwrussell]

at 30 gigs to rip an hd dvd or bluray disk...this will get filled up quick ) What I want is 10 of em and all of the hd movies i can get at one time from netflix to make my own ho,e based movie server. muhahaaaa

kinda like this:

http://www.kaleidescape.com/files/datasheets/Kaleidescape-1U-Server.pdf

nice find btw on these new servers I was wondering when they were coming out.

Very cool. Gotta be 'spensive.

 

[caudio51]

I heard about that

I'm happy with my 500 gig drive at the moment, that is until it is filled.

 

[geoffrie]

Now: My servers are connected to an EMC array of 20 terabytes (and growing)

Then: Had a 5mb Corvus harddrive that we backed up to 1/2" videotape.

 

[Electric Sheep]

I've had a 750GB main drive for months now, and I've got another 400GB and 300GB in external FireWire cases.

Honestly, it's BARELY enough space for what I do.

 

[caudio51]

Damn, that is a lot of space!

 

[MCsommerreid]

Just gotta rig up 6 of them in your desktop, and you're set.

 

[Rank_Tyro]

Just think, five of these and you could build a RAID 5 server that would last you and all of your data for the rest of your life.

Is it wrong to drool over material things?

 

[caudio51]

How big is a RAID 5?? 5,000 gigs?

 

[Rank_Tyro]

The usable capacity of a RAID 5 array is (N-1) * \min(S_1, S_2, \dots, S_N) = (N-1) * S_{min}, where N is the total number of drives in the array, Si is the capacity of the ith drive, and Smin is the capacity of the smallest drive in the array.

Did that answer your question?

 

[Rank_Tyro]

In a more practical mode of answering the question....1 Terabyte is 1024 Gigabytes. To put that in perspective, 1 ripped DVD movie is about 5 Gigs. The song "Gods own drunk", by Jimmy Buffet is 6minutes and twelve seconds long, and is 5.79 Megabytes

A RAID 5 server would only have 1 Terrabyte of data, but if any of the drives in the array failed, you could just replace it with a new one and never worry about your data being lost if a hard drive gets broke.

A RAID 0 would give you the storage of all the drives, but no redundancy, so if a drive failed, your data, (movies, pictures, mp3's, pr0n), could become unrecoverable/unusable.

I recently acquired a Compaq server, with 8 hot-swappable drives. The only problem is they are all 20 gig drives, so if I went with the RAID 5, I would never have to worry about losing any data, but I would only have 20 gigs of storage.

If I went RAID 0, I would have 160 gigs of storage. I am just mucking about with the machine right now, but as soon as I can afford to buy 8 400 gig SCCSI drives from Compaq, (*not soon), I will have the home entertainment server from HELL!!, and no worries about losing data.