while buying this product doesn't make much sense economically (unless you consider the cost per "bay" in your server and you overpaid your server), there is one reason this drive is great for the rest of us
since it came out on the retail market about 2-3 weeks ago the price of almost all the other drives dropped significantly
here are the price per GB at my fav wholesaler (eprom.com)
40gb 1.2$CAD/gb
80gb 0.675$CAD/gb
120gb 0.608$CAD/gb
160gb 0.481$CAD/gb
200gb 0.425$CAD/gb
250gb 0.356$CAD/gb
300gb 0.386$CAD/gb
400gb 0.472$CAD/gb
500gb 0.546$CAD/gb
750gb 0.705$CAD/gb
as you can see the 750gb has the second worst price per gb, of course part of this price is the extended warranty but from my experience the very high reliability of seagate drives makes warranty not all that valuable
so unless you server has high cost per bay it's not really worth it (you server has to cost over 130$ per bay which is ludicrous considering my lastest 12 bay system costed only 41.08$CAD per bay)
and don't get me started on electricity usage & heat & noise, since a proper case won't let much noise escape or will just drown the noise with it's fans or will be in a location where noise isn't important (it's a networked server who cares if it's in the attic) and the heat being only 40 btu per drive (or a third of the heat of a fluorescent tube not even counting it's ballast) and finally electricity usage is just as insignificant at 6$CAD per year of utilisation
however this product is great because suckers will buy it at great markup for seagate which will cover a part of the cost of developpement of this technology which will last until the 5 terabyte drives
and from now on seagate will probably start releasing higher capacity model more regularly meaning an even lower cost per gb in the near future (disk capacities more or less stalled in the past few months this will easily put hard drives back on track of the "capacity schedule")
but I do have a question , how do you backup this much data at a low cost?
tapes are out afaik since they're way more expensive per gb (reusability isn't helping much since you need at least 1:1 the storage capacity of your server at all time, but probably even more than that to compensate for failures and redundancy) than harddrives and also a lot more cumbersome to use
dvd are even more annoying but this is offset by the fact that they only cost 0.0744$CAD/gb which make a disk burning robot probably a economically viable option
next generation disk won't be below the cost of dvds for a long long time (if ever) so they're out too for now
so is there any other option or if not what's the market for disk burning (and maybe disk loading, like a automated dvd carroussel with an integrated reader) robot these days ?
why stop there , why not let every parents who feels like it beat him up just for fun ? after all if this guy had anything to do with child pornography he becomes DE FACTO sub-human, he is stripped of all of his right and should be killed right ?
in fact all judges should be parents because people who don't have kids don't understand the unrational fear parents have to live with and there is only relief when someone associated with the fear gets sacrified
also if someone somewheres downloads a file that turns out to contain child pornography (who cares if he paid for it or if even knew what it was before he downloaded it, I mean if he downloaded teenblowjob.mpg on some p2p network and it turns out it's a video of a 17 year old girl giving the head to some guy then clearly the guy downloading it is "creating more interest in child pornography market" and as such he is no longer human and has no right, all that is left is to stone him without letting him have a trial of course !! it just plain common sense right ? I mean just read the comments on this story or any other story about child porn and it's pretty clear that anyone who has a kid is perfectly clear that this is how thing should be
it's time for an old fashion pedophile-witch-hunt !!! bring on the torches !!!
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that's weird when I posted my text was properly formatted damn this forum software sucks !
while buying this product doesn't make much sense economically (unless you consider the cost per "bay" in your server and you overpaid your server), there is one reason this drive is great for the rest of us since it came out on the retail market about 2-3 weeks ago the price of almost all the other drives dropped significantly here are the price per GB at my fav wholesaler (eprom.com) 40gb 1.2$CAD/gb 80gb 0.675$CAD/gb 120gb 0.608$CAD/gb 160gb 0.481$CAD/gb 200gb 0.425$CAD/gb 250gb 0.356$CAD/gb 300gb 0.386$CAD/gb 400gb 0.472$CAD/gb 500gb 0.546$CAD/gb 750gb 0.705$CAD/gb as you can see the 750gb has the second worst price per gb, of course part of this price is the extended warranty but from my experience the very high reliability of seagate drives makes warranty not all that valuable so unless you server has high cost per bay it's not really worth it (you server has to cost over 130$ per bay which is ludicrous considering my lastest 12 bay system costed only 41.08$CAD per bay) and don't get me started on electricity usage & heat & noise, since a proper case won't let much noise escape or will just drown the noise with it's fans or will be in a location where noise isn't important (it's a networked server who cares if it's in the attic) and the heat being only 40 btu per drive (or a third of the heat of a fluorescent tube not even counting it's ballast) and finally electricity usage is just as insignificant at 6$CAD per year of utilisation however this product is great because suckers will buy it at great markup for seagate which will cover a part of the cost of developpement of this technology which will last until the 5 terabyte drives and from now on seagate will probably start releasing higher capacity model more regularly meaning an even lower cost per gb in the near future (disk capacities more or less stalled in the past few months this will easily put hard drives back on track of the "capacity schedule") but I do have a question , how do you backup this much data at a low cost? tapes are out afaik since they're way more expensive per gb (reusability isn't helping much since you need at least 1:1 the storage capacity of your server at all time, but probably even more than that to compensate for failures and redundancy) than harddrives and also a lot more cumbersome to use dvd are even more annoying but this is offset by the fact that they only cost 0.0744$CAD/gb which make a disk burning robot probably a economically viable option next generation disk won't be below the cost of dvds for a long long time (if ever) so they're out too for now so is there any other option or if not what's the market for disk burning (and maybe disk loading, like a automated dvd carroussel with an integrated reader) robot these days ?
I wonder if anyone else got the N******* D******* reference ;)
why stop there , why not let every parents who feels like it beat him up just for fun ? after all if this guy had anything to do with child pornography he becomes DE FACTO sub-human, he is stripped of all of his right and should be killed right ?
in fact all judges should be parents because people who don't have kids don't understand the unrational fear parents have to live with and there is only relief when someone associated with the fear gets sacrified
also if someone somewheres downloads a file that turns out to contain child pornography (who cares if he paid for it or if even knew what it was before he downloaded it, I mean if he downloaded teenblowjob.mpg on some p2p network and it turns out it's a video of a 17 year old girl giving the head to some guy then clearly the guy downloading it is "creating more interest in child pornography market" and as such he is no longer human and has no right, all that is left is to stone him without letting him have a trial of course !! it just plain common sense right ? I mean just read the comments on this story or any other story about child porn and it's pretty clear that anyone who has a kid is perfectly clear that this is how thing should be
it's time for an old fashion pedophile-witch-hunt !!! bring on the torches !!!