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Half-Terabyte Hard Drive Reviewed
EconolineCrush writes "The Tech Report has posted an in-depth review of Hitachi's half-terabyte Deskstar 7K500, the largest hard drive available on the market. The drive is compared with five of the latest drives from Maxtor, Seagate, and Western Digital, so the review serves as a good round-up of the fastest Serial ATA drives on the market. Performance testing is quite extensive, covering desktop applications, load times, file copy tests, multi-user workloads, disk-intensive multitasking, and even noise levels and power consumption."
I don't think my four banger calculator goes that high?
Please tell me that these are not built on the same technology as the old IBM Deathstars.
It's almost big enough to hold my p0rn collection.
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How does Joe Sixpack back up 500Gb?
With a second drive. Hopefully they'll be doing some sort of buy-one-get-one-free deal.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
When does Joe Sixpack even consider backing up *any* data?
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not very useful if that drive is physically located in the same place and you live somewhere like, say, New Orleans.
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Joe Sixpack?
He makes two partitions, uses 250GB for his working drive, and then uses ghost to mirror it to the second partition every couple of months. How can you lose?
What you forgot to ask is how his tech savvy cousin (who also does taxidermy and accounting) makes it faster, larger, and redundant. In that case he makes 7 partitions and uses software to do a raid5 setup over the first 6 partitions, using the last one as parity. 428GB with a perfect, online safety net. Pretty smart, huh?
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
This drive is finally more powerful than my brain which can store exactly 487 GB of information per lifetime. Wait, did I already post this message??
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Speak for yourself. Porn collections can be pretty demanding.
I personally lost seven hard drives due to the poor manufacturing quality. Those hard drives contained data that was invaluable to me.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me seven times?
The only thing Joe Sixpack backs up is his Ford.
Mother, do you think they'll like this sig?
Also in the news: ... well, nevermind.
A new study finds that the size of one's pr0n collection is inversely proportional to the size of one's
SCSI is better, all your (S|P)ATA users are losers.
Who can back up all that data?
Pr0n!
s/Deskstar/Deathstar
(Seagate|Maxtor|IBM|Hitachi|LaCie) is better!
It runs too hot
It runs too loud
I have {insert obscure Linux kernel bug} when I install $DISTRO to this drive
How many Libraries of Congress per hogshead is that?
Seriously, does anything have anything TRULY insightful to say? (this post doesn't count, since its a meta-post)
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
With the sheer amount of free porn out there, why not simply get some fresh new stuff every time you need to masturbate?
back when I was a tech for a small local computer store we had a guy come in desperate to get his businesses records back working on his laptop. Said he'd had everything in order set up by his son so it worked for him and he needed it back exactly how he had it, with his data intact.
We checked out the drive in the Toshiba laptop he brought in and found not a thing on it bar a fresh default install of XP. Things didn't look good, and we ran what we could over it finding nothing. Guy comes back, we couldn't get his data so he starts threatening legal action cos his entire business depends on the data on that laptop. We explain it's been formatted, back to the state it was when it was brand new.
turns out... it WAS brand new. Barely a week old when he brought it to us, the idiot had just up & SOLD his other laptop without any thought to backup & restore, then bought a new one the same model and expected to be able to use it just like the old one.
Saw him again a few months later. he tried to get back in contact with the guy he'd sold it to, but it'd been stripped and parts sold off on eBay. Apparently he tried suing that guy too.
It only holds 500 hours of video. If I watched every minute from waking to sleeping, I use that up in a month :-(
So thats what they use in the 6.8GHz 1TB RAM and 2TB HDD Laptop!!
Joe is still working on "Left click with your right hand!"
That previous article was only for a little 500GB, this is half a terabyte! duh! =P
Given the way hard drive manufacturers report capacity, I make it 465.7 GB, which is a whisker under 45.5% of a TB. Of course that's before any FS overhead.
OK, it's *close* to half a TB, and it is a BIG hard drive (my first was 20 MB). BUT... if I had half a TB of data to store, I'd be short over 46 GB, which is no small amount.
Nonsense. All you had to do was open the system and, using the erasor end of a pencil, give the platter hub a push and hit the power switch. If you had 2 drives you would briefly power off after starting the first drive because the 2nd was cooking. Then before the first drive spun down you would push off the second drive. You shouldn't be spreading FUD about these fine drives.
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Nah, the size of your pr0nz collection is directly proportional to the size of your pipe multiplied by its uptime.
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