Do you have a terabyte hard drive yet?

[yoda313]

So do you have a terabyte hard drive yet?

I have recently bought a 500gb maxtor drive that is doing just fine.

How about you?

[aedipuss]

no and no intention to get any. i have 2TB in 4 drives but i am still pissed of about the 2 year old 500GB that perished with 400GB on it last week. no warning, just turned on the comp one morning, and "s.m.a.r.t." warned me of imminent drive failure. i tried to access that storage drive and nothing could "see" anything on it. i opened it up and i couldn't even turn the platters by hand, complete bearing failure. no way i'm going any bigger only to lose more data. i took a BIG hammer to it, so there was at least a little satisfaction to be had. one less manufacturer on my "good" list.

[Xylob the Destroyer]

Got a 40GB, 80GB, and a 160GB all crammed into the HTPC and plenty of room to spare still.
No need for a TB

[redwudz]

I got a good deal on a bunch of 320GB drives a year ago, so I have 5TB available. (And about 1/3 full. )

[LOWTECH]

A 1 terabyte is a bad move, too much data at risk..........

As they say don`t put all your eggs in one basket.

Spread the risk, stick to 250gb to 400gb drives and have copies on 2 drives as back up of important data.

I could not stand the loss of 750gb of data.......

Sometimes too big is not so good.

[Dr_Layne]

Added two Hitatch 1TB internal drives recently to hold all my live Pink Floyd audio and video for quick access. Of course all is backed up on dvdr's as well.

A_L

[Conquest10]

I have over a terabyte in space but over several drives. I've already had two drives die on me (luckily I was able to pull the important data off of it) so I couldn't imagine if I had a terabyte of data just disappear suddenly.

[SCDVD]

For what it's worth, I read a review recently of the three terabyte drive models on the market from Seagate, Hitachi and Western Digital. The Seagate drive was rated the fastest of the three.

[Supreme2k]

I have two (old) 2TB drives from an IBM mainframe from about 4 years ago. They are bigger than my PC. I have since upgraded to two 500G drives, which I barely use. I have a 300 for my OS and programs, and the 500's for archive and video work. the TB drives are now on my server (which previously had a 5G drive on it).

[budz]

I got a good deal on a bunch of 320GB drives a year ago, so I have 5TB available. (And about 1/3 full. )

Whoas! Go redwuz!

I just have many drives spread over 5 computers and 3 external cases w/hard drives as well. I do have one 500gb Seagate SATA II hd that I use as video storage and did a backup of my os for that fast c2d pc. A few years ago I had a 250gb maxtor hd PATA die on me after only a few months but I did get a replacement/refurb drive.

[rhegedus]

Yes.

WD 1TB MyBook.

A 1 terabyte is a bad move, too much data at risk..........

As they say don`t put all your eggs in one basket.

Spread the risk, stick to 250gb to 400gb drives and have copies on 2 drives as back up of important data.

I could not stand the loss of 750gb of data.......

Sometimes too big is not so good.

They also said that 250GB drives were risky when everyone was still buying 120GB ones....

[harrisonford]

From 250 to 1 tera, total 28.5 terabytes need any space?
Server for work and data storage and processing.
look closely and you can them all
not Maxtor, started out there, had lots of luck, few years ago to many failures,
Western Digital, best 250 HD, than all of a sudden to many failures, 4 in 3 months, all new,
Yes all Seagate, no failures, ..... ...... so far, 500GB 750GB a 1 terabytes will rid 250's and 320 and 500 later in 2008, second generation 1 terabytes, back up everything to disc, 5200 DVD so far, can somone make me a larger storage system, Raid 6 is great, but off site storage is $$$$$$ for 28 tera's

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[dadrab]

I'm about up to three TB spread across several drives. I must've bumped into the same deal on 320GB drives that redwudz did. I bought four to add to the arsenal.

I'm not sure I wouldn't buy a 1TB or better drive, but I haven't run into the right deal yet.

...cheap SOB, you know...

[oldandinthe way]

Don't need 1TB on a single drive. Fortunately my drive usage segments so 500mb is my largest drive. I've never totaled all of my drives but suspect I'm at somewhere over 2TB.

I'm always concerned about single points of failure, but more concerned by the backup time for large drives. My 500mb is about half full and the backup drive is only 320gb. I haven't decided whether to let it grow past 320gb.

[gadgetguy]

No.

[Lovepeaceguru]

I have 3 x 1TB drives in a Raid 0 array. 1 x Seagate, 1x Western Digital, 1 x "forgotten" giving me a total NTFS formatted space of 2.72TB which I have in a single partition and on which I store 720/1080p movies

[SCDVD]

This discussion is always the same, just the drive sizes change. I remember when drive capacities increased from 6 MB to 10 MB to 20 MB. Then when the capacities increased to over 100 MB, a number of self anointed grizzled veterans said with all finality that was as far as it would go. Quote, "With a certainty, 512 MB is the absolute maximum drive capacity that anyone could possibly ever use on a PC in their wildest dream". These same anachronistic mutants scoffed at a Gigabyte drive as insane. The funniest part is the superior attitude these jokers put up. I can tell you for sure that the storage capacity growth is not over. Ten or twenty years from now, a 1TB drive will seem just as tiny as we now perceive a 6 MB drive from 20 years ago - and the same shortsighted nitwits will still be snorting about how they are such he-men that they will "never use a Petabyte drive". And in the more distant future, all of the commotion will be over Exabyte storage. One of these clowns is likely to "announce" that disc drives can't achieve that capacity as a way to demonstrate how small their brain is. The key word is data storage, not whether or not it spins, vibrates, pulsates or anything else.

[edDV]

I picked up 2 WD SATA today for $89.99ea. at Microcenter. A single 1TB drive would have cost $299 or more than three times the 500GB. Considering price, 500GB is a good size.

Last week I got 2 Maxtor PATA 320GB for $44ea at a Fry's one day sale. Interesting that in the ad they were promoted as "true 300GB" and formatted to 298GB. The box was labled 300GB with a sticker that said "Bonus 20GB". It looks like they have competing marketing strategies.

[solarfox]

I have over a terabyte in space but over several drives. I've already had two drives die on me (luckily I was able to pull the important data off of it) so I couldn't imagine if I had a terabyte of data just disappear suddenly.

Which is why all of my systems now run RAID-1 mirrored pairs. Yeah, I know it's not 100% foolproof -- but nothing is, really; all you can do is reduce the odds to an acceptable level of risk -- and the odds that both drives in a RAID-1 could simultaneously fail catastrophically enough to be completely unrecoverable are, realistically, pretty low. (If I was truly paranoid about it, I'd invest in a RAID-6 array.)

[solarfox]

Last week I got 2 Maxtor PATA 320GB for $44ea at a Fry's one day sale.

And knowing Maxtor, you'll be returning at least one of them within a month.

(I despise Maxtor drives. I've had way too many of them just up and die, or even be dead right out of the box, to ever trust them for anything more than fancy paperweights.)

[Conquest10]

(I despise Maxtor drives. I've had way too many of them just up and die, or even be dead right out of the box, to ever trust them for anything more than fancy paperweights.)

Yup, one of my dead drives was a Maxtor. Died about 7-8 months after I got it.

[LOWTECH]

The bottom line is the bigger the drive the more you have to loose in a failure.

If you have to back up a 1 terabyte disk onto dvd disks the amount needed would be around 250 dvds @ 4gb for safety...... plus maybe a backup 1 terabyte drive.

The gamble to loose so much data must be covered safely.

A drive failure will always be a worry, the bigger the drive the bigger the worry.

I am not against the massive size of a terabyte drive, I feel its beyond my safety limit for my use.

I use external 250gb drives, untill larger SD type storage cards may come along and take over from hard drive storage...?

[harrisonford]

If you own terabyte data farms, or near online data farms, RAID 6 or RAID 60 is the way to go, but most people
don't have that much personal data to fill the terabyte spaces, give it several years and this will change with
HD content and gigabit Internet/IPS.

Backing up terabytes is for m.o.r.o.n.s, offline near online backup off site is the only way. Tape, waste of time.
500 GIG dvd disc would be nice.
For smaller amounts of data, tradional data back up methods are clearly useful.

RAID 6 card are cheap now ($340) on sale, and so are hard drives, if you complain about data lost due to hard
crash, one may say it is your fault, RAID 0 is a starter solution, but when terabtyes are at stake, RAID 0 is to
little, and to late to save it, 8 port RAID 6 card, 6 for data and 2 for parity, any 2 or 3 drives can crash and
still recover, so, go out ahead and buy lots of maxtor drives LMAO, kidding.

[redwudz]

The bottom line is the bigger the drive the more you have to loose in a failure.

True. That's one reason I use 320GB drives at present. Lots of drives, but less to lose if one drive dies. And I put nothing on a hard drive that I can't afford to lose. It's mostly a mechanical device and it willfail at some point.

I back up my data that is important to other formats, usually DVD data discs. I've used RAID in the past. Too many drives or too many failures. I've had better luck with just single drives. I do use Seagate SATA drives at present.

The only hard drive failure I've had in the last couple of years was a Maxtor boot drive on one of my servers. And S.M.A.R.T. warned me it was failing, which I ignored once too many times. Still, I just had to replace the drive and add the OS back. In hindsight, I should have cloned it early on, but always learning.

[SaSi]

After several years of wishing, I finaly got to build myself a RAID-5 array. 5 disks of 500Gb each giving 1.81Tb or net capacity.

Is it enough? Of course not.

[lacywest]

For what it's worth, I read a review recently of the three terabyte drive models on the market from Seagate, Hitachi and Western Digital. The Seagate drive was rated the fastest of the three.

I'm more interested in reliability ... I bought two Western Digital 500 GB a year ago ... one of them never worked right and the other one ... a month ago went belly up and for last few weeks been retrieving the data on it ... it had about 450 Gigs on ... mostly Internet Porn ... I guess I moved all my ... movies from the other drives over to this drive and now I'm spending my spare time trying to rescue the DATA on it ... after I believe I've finished I will see if it can be reformated and will use it again for some purpose or another.

I do have a 500GB USB 2.0 Western Digital Book ... I bring with me to work. And at my work bench out in the garage ... I've got a Seagate USB 2.0 500 GB.

I buy my drives from Best Buy ... when they are on sale.

[DereX888]

The machine im using the most has only 2x4GB "drive" space (yes, total of EIGHT GIGS only on 2 SD cards, its a PocketPC) and I do everything personal I need with just that much space only... not often I need more, but if my next PocketPC can have ~32GB I'm sure I'll have enough for next few years

But yeah, some of my home PCs have more than TB of space (and some don't - i.e. my old laptops have only 3GB and 80GB...).

Space is not really important for personal use, almost every "puny" devices as it may seem is probably good enough for most people; space is relevant only when you deal with video files, or use the machine as a server (home media storage etc). Or if you install and play gazillion of modern graphics-heavy games

[Constant Gardener]

I always put two drives on machines I build - at the moment, that means 500 GB Seagates. So I have a terabyte. I'll buy terabyte drives when the price sweetens a little. I want to try the WD "green" drive for my mp3 library - mostly captured radio - since it uses less power than the faster Seagates. I'm not too worried about reliability rumours since I always have backups.

[Dr_Layne]

For what it's worth, I read a review recently of the three terabyte drive models on the market from Seagate, Hitachi and Western Digital. The Seagate drive was rated the fastest of the three.

If you are refering to internal drives, you left out Samsung.

A_L