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Seagate Announces First 1.5TB Desktop Hard Drive
MojoKid writes "Seagate announced three new consumer-level hard drives today, which it claims are the 'industry's first 1.5-terabyte desktop and half-terabyte notebook hard drives.' The company claims that it is able to greatly increase the areal density of its drive substrates by utilizing perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology that is capable of delivering more than triple the storage density of traditional longitudinal recording. Seagate's latest desktop-class hard drive, the Barracuda 7200.11, will be available in a 1.5TB capacity starting in August. The 3.5-inch drive is made up of four 375GB platters and has a 7,200-rpm rotational speed."
Here you go! http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/research/recording_head/pr/PerpendicularAnimation.html
Hard drives are getting bigger? Wow.. what news.. that hardly ever happens.
You guys mod this funny, but it's a little known fact that the terabyte was actually named after Tera Patrick in deference to her online body of work.
Careful What You Wish For....
So you're saying it's not how big it is, but it's how long it will last?
Yeah. Bill Gates once said 500 GB of porn ought to be enough for anybody! Or something like that...
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Seriously, I'd take half that storage if there was more assurance of my data integrity.
How does more assurance of your data integrity obviate the need for backups? In other words, how does your behavior change even with those assurances?
Losing an 80 GB HD nearly broke my heart, I can't imagine what losing 1.5 TB would do...
Yeah, it'd be nice not to have hard drive failures, but don't blame the drive manufacturers for your lack of backups. There is no data solution so good that it doesn't need redundancy in some manner.
Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.
The question is WHEN do Joe need that much space? Lets talk about this question in a couple of years...
When Windows 7 comes out
I hope you make backups. A corrputed 1.5 TB HDD with ReiserFS would be a bloody mess!
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When you start ripping your Blue-Ray HD Movies to store on a disk-less HDD share (at about 25GB to 50GB a pop) and then you conveniently convert them into mountable ISO images, you will then know why you bought that 1.5TB HDD.
What a waste. If he spent a little more time and remuxed them down to just the movies he could easily shave off half of that space. For example, the "I am Legend" blu-ray contains two complete copies of the movie, one of the theatrical cut and one of the director's cut - no seamless branching, two full copies that are 99% identical. Toss the theatrical cut, and all of the other junk and that disc which was nearly the full 50GB is down to ~18GB.
Another common space-wasting practice on blu-ray is to include multiple uncompressed (lpcm, not even truehd or dts master audio) soundtracks, good for 5-6GB each, all of which can be tossed except the native track and then you can losslessly compress that down to 1-2GB. And then, of course, there is all the supplements which you watch, maybe once, if that. Throw those out the window, if you ever really want to watch them you can still pull the original disk out of storage.
Another benefit to remuxing is that you can easily play the movie in any variety of free and semi-free players. Sometimes that can be extremely difficult with the original iso -- like animated movies where they actually render the scenes differently depending on the language track in order to localize things like signs and to keep the mouth movements in sync, typically seamless branching is used for these things, but the net effect is 30-40 different snippet files for each specific language that are not necessarily in any obvious order.
And what backup solutions exist for 1.5TBs today? Anything affordable, or just more RAID solutions (again, hard drives)?
You can talk about backups all day long, but you know that when HP pushes out their latest consumer desktop with this drive, a home user is essentially buying a ticking time bomb.
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I have the same problem as you (no sense of humor). Usually I check if the comment was modded "funny" and it lets me know when to laugh. Laugh harder if it is at +5 funny. If the comment was posted recently and has not been moderated check again in a few minutes.
Yes, obsessive video hoarders will use big hard drives just as you describe. Everybody else will pay Netflix or Comcast $20 a month for hassle free access to 10,000 times the content.
I went with the hard drives. I find the seek times on Netflix to be unacceptable.
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Are you thinking of the pedobyte?
Good Source is Storage Review
http://www.storagereview.com/php/benchmark/bench_sort.php
The top 34 drives all do at least 54mb/sec MINIMUM and at least ~80MB/sec maximum. The top 15kRPM cheetah doing 82.7-135MB/sec.
If i were to pull a number out of my ass I would say 78-135MB/sec (min/max) on the new 1.5TB drives.
I would say if you have 750gig seagates and you are only getting 25MB/sec you have a bottleneck. Those drives should do a MINIMUM of at least 40MB/sec...