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A Terabyte In A Cigar Box

Posted by timothy on from the drool-drool-droll dept.

Anonymous Howard writes "LaCie has introduced a 1 Terabyte (capacity) disk for (get this) only $1,199.00!(USD) It is external and equipped with FireWire 800, FireWire 400, iLink/DV, Hi-Speed USB 2.0 or USB 1.1 to connect to both PC and Mac. Take a look here."

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  1. wow... by TWX · · Score: 5, Insightful

    four 250GB hard disk drives and a controller in a case for $1200... What will they think of next?

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  2. Missing bytes growing fast by Humba · · Score: 5, Insightful
    The bytes lost to marketing(1024*1024*1024*1024 = 1,099,511,627,776 bytes) vs 1,000,000,000,000 bytes are 3x larger than the drive on the machine I'm using right now.

    I know this is "just the way" drives are measured, but all those missing 24 bytes are really starting to add up. --H

  3. proprietary controller by lukior · · Score: 5, Insightful

    My fear would be that the proprietary controller would go bad and then you would lose all the data you had stored. I bought a sancube that was a raid array in a box and lost data when it went down. They repaired it but that took two weeks. Those were two weeks I didn't have. When I got it back I removed any data that was still useful removed the drives and threw away the box. I just couldnt risk any more problems.

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  4. Hey Epson, by teamhasnoi · · Score: 5, Insightful
    look at Lacie! They actually INCLUDE all the cables for all the interfaces.

    Of course, for a grand and some change, this thing better make the bed the next morning, you follow...

  5. $1/GB by Saeger · · Score: 5, Insightful
    1 Terabyte (capacity) disk for (get this) only $1,199.00!(USD)

    What's so amazing about that? HD space has been under one dollar per gigabyte for a few years now. Add the cost of RAID and it's still under a buck a gig.

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  6. Re:Sorry.. by elmegil · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Don't think this is the wave of the future.

    Because after all, we haven't been doing RAID for a long time now. Oh wait, doesn't RAID mean Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks?

    Come on, it certainly has its reliability concerns, but if you mirror one to another, where's the difference between this and two racks of smaller disks? Seems to me that 4 points of failure on each side of the mirror rather than a dozen or two could actually HELP reliability.

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