Seagateto relase 750GB hard drive!

[mummey]

I look forward to seeing RAID devices based on these drives.

[R3desiGN]

Just imagine how long the first formating will take or scanning the whole disk (when full) against viruses :D To be honest I'd more than happy having that "issues" :P

[enygma]

Sweet stuff. I might have to get me one of those drives here down the road. Not like the 2 500GB drives I have isn't already enough mind you... but still... :D

[Spater]

sweet googley moogley, that's a lot of pornography right there.

[Spritemare]

Sounds great. Seagate has been my favorite HD company for many years. My only peeve with it was already mentioned, it will take forever to format or defrag a drive that big!

[mech7]

Quickformat only a second i guess :)

Just imagine how long the first formating will take or scanning the whole disk (when full) against viruses :D To be honest I'd more than happy having that "issues" :P

[pgp_protector]

2 Questions.

1) How Much ?
2) How Soon ?


Mmmm put a few of em in my system, and that make a nice Video Server for the home :)
No more swaping DVDs :D

[ParamountCell]

sweet googley moogley, that's a lot of pornography right there.
hahahahah oh boy.

I can imagine it to be pretty expensive.

[DeadlyFreeze]

Lets see the largest consumer drives are 500Gb and those cost around $300, so a 750GB will probably be around $450 to $500

Not that good price to GB ratio and really your better off spaning data over multiple drives then one big one.

[JMcWilliams]

Anyone else just prefer having smaller seperate drives? At the very least incase the drive goes down (not putting all the eggs into one basket as they say :D ).
I suppose you could have a raid backup instead of a raid stripe? But still...

I also organise stuff based on my multiple drives.

[DevilHacker]

one step closer to 1TB hard drives...
:thumbsup:

[arvid]

for my new HTPC i bought two 250Gb hard drives and striped them as one 500Gb unit, I'd love to do that with two 750Gb disks.. :D

[pgp_protector]

Anyone else just prefer having smaller seperate drives? At the very least incase the drive goes down (not putting all the eggs into one basket as they say :D ).
I suppose you could have a raid backup instead of a raid stripe? But still...

I also organise stuff based on my multiple drives.

That is true for Data you create, but me, I'd like to make a nice video server for the house, and store all my DVDs on the drive, so the only thing I'd loose is my time if the drive failed, as I'd still have all the original DVDs

You figure on avrage 7G for a Movie that's 100 Movies Per Drive, 2 Drives in a home server, That should cover my full library :)

[hightillidie]

That is true for Data you create, but me, I'd like to make a nice video server for the house, and store all my DVDs on the drive, so the only thing I'd loose is my time if the drive failed, as I'd still have all the original DVDs

You figure on avrage 7G for a Movie that's 100 Movies Per Drive, 2 Drives in a home server, That should cover my full library :)



DVDs are a big bitch, it took me over 300 gb I think to back up all my F.R.I.E.N.D.S seasons.

[pogonip]

Man I have 120 GB and have yet to ever come close filling it ( 96 GB right now ) :argh:

[rasamaya]

Sure, bigger is great, but lets get them quicker. 7200 should not be a standard, why do they try to keep us in the dark so long? Please dont tell me.
I do prefer a few 10000 rpm units and a few larger slugs due to pricing bla

my 2 bits

Cheers

[mental]

1998
Lets see the largest consumer drives are 10Gb and those cost around $300, so a 50GB will probably be around $450 to $500

Not that good price to GB ratio and really your better off spaning data over multiple drives then one big one.
2000
Lets see the largest consumer drives are 50Gb and those cost around $300, so a 100GB will probably be around $450 to $500

Not that good price to GB ratio and really your better off spaning data over multiple drives then one big one.
2004
Lets see the largest consumer drives are 100Gb and those cost around $300, so a 250GB will probably be around $450 to $500

Not that good price to GB ratio and really your better off spaning data over multiple drives then one big one.
2005
Lets see the largest consumer drives are 250Gb and those cost around $300, so a 500GB will probably be around $450 to $500

Not that good price to GB ratio and really your better off spaning data over multiple drives then one big one.
2006
Lets see the largest consumer drives are 500Gb and those cost around $300, so a 750GB will probably be around $450 to $500

Not that good price to GB ratio and really your better off spaning data over multiple drives then one big one.
:shrug:

[mustique]

Anyone else just prefer having smaller seperate drives? At the very least incase the drive goes down (not putting all the eggs into one basket as they say :D ).
I suppose you could have a raid backup instead of a raid stripe? But still...

I also organise stuff based on my multiple drives.

I'd prefer multiple small drives too.
But you gotta consider that each drive costs you about 25 Watt power.
I'd buy 3X250 GB harddrives if I knew I can devote 75 Watt just for storage.
But then again, I don't need that much GB right now.

[Pin_pal]

Drop two of these in my Tivo, 1500 hours of recording goodness! Won't ever have to delete a show! :)

[Clanger]

My first hard disk was 10MB yes I did say 10MB not 10GB and at the time I thought I'd never fill it.

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