Never run out of hard drive space again!!!

[sellpipe]

check this out....

All I can say is DAMN!!

http://www.cooltechzone.com/reviews/drives/hddnewsstory_001.php



sellpipe

[RDS1955]

Kewl!!!

Only issue here is the part about never runing out of HDD space again..I can remeber that thought when I got my 1st reallly really big HD that was 20 GB in size..Then again when I got my 80 GB'iter.. Now I'm at 200 GB and contemplating about buying another large HD cause I only have about 30 GB left..(the original 80 GB + a 120 GB External USB HD..)

No matter how big it gets, the softoware manufacturers and us will figure out ways to fill em.. :P

[nissmo300]

Western Digital 200GB 7200RPM x 5 = 1 Terabyte for 710 at NewEgg.

That other one is a waste of money at $1200.00

[housepig]

Western Digital 200GB 7200RPM x 5 = 1 Terabyte for 710 at NewEgg.

That other one is a waste of money at $1200.00

you have a motherboard that will support 5 IDE devices? plus your rom and recordable drives?

@RDS1955 -

you're right - I remember buying a 240Mb hard drive (for $200!) and thinking "I'll never fill this..."

[handyguy]

"640k is enough for everyone"
B. Gates

[nissmo300]

you have a motherboard that will support 5 IDE devices? plus your rom and recordable drives?

You can buy a controller with the remaining $500 you save.

[housepig]

You can buy a controller with the remaining $500 you save.

which, since it's on a PCI bus instead of an IDE bus, may or may not be fast enough to work properly.

sometimes you need something in one drive space, using one IDE connection and one lead off your power supply. for those people, they can spend the extra $500. or wait 3 months until the price drops.

[adam]

Don't miss the fine print on that site. Seems all that is, is a number of drives arrayed via a raid controller. I don't think this is anything that you couldn't just do yourself.

[gmatov]

Housepig,

What would be an acceptable speed for you? 6 or 8 times the fastest available today?

A 133 meg add in card will top or match a 100 board's inbuilt, or a 66.

Are all the users here supposed to go with ultra fat, ultra wide, ultra bloated, ultra bullshitted SCSI? 200 bucks for a really superfast 18 gigs? Can copy your DVD fastewr than 6your program can decrypt it? Click "Copy", click cancel, because it is done already?

Goddamn, man, video is not as HDD intensive as you all make it out to be. Should you calculate the rate of DV, you would find that an old '99 drive has the capability, if not the capacity.

I do not speak from envy. I have some 540 gigs on the machine I am in front of at the moment. Some 400+ on the video machine in the other room. Never have I had a problem with copy/transfer speed.

Cheers,

George

[housepig]

What would be an acceptable speed for you? 6 or 8 times the fastest available today?

actually, my 3 vanilla Maxtors (280Gb total) are quite fast enough, thank you.

I personally don't have a need for a terrabyte in one drive - but someone else might.

[gmatov]

As Adam wrote, above, check the page again. Update 4-09-04, combined 2 500 gig drives in a RAID array.

We don't have a 1 Terabyte drive yet.

My 160 Maxtors cost 80 bucks final price. Half a buck a gig. I for one will not be paying a buck twenty a gig.

Nor do I think I want all my eggs in 1 basket, 1 huge drive to fail, losing everything in one swell foop.

4 iinternal, 2 USB2 drives, this machine. 3 optical drives. 2 add-on cards, still have connectivity for 5 more devices, but a little short of actual space.

Kinda like the 800 buck, 1 gig camera cards. Wouldn't it burn your balls to lose the damned thing?

Cheers,

George

[Capmaster]

Never have I had a problem with copy/transfer speed.

Me neither. I don't have s aeparate drive for caps and OS, my HD is nothing special.

On my 3-year-old laptop which has a P3-M 1.13 GHz CPU, has a 20GB 5400 RPM drive, UDMA66 IDE, capping is done on the same drive as the OS (Win2K), and it's never skipped a beat in 2 straight years of intensive, every-day capturing. It is defragmented regularly, but that's always a good thing. So much for the "You have to have this to avoid problems" that I read on this and other forums. They're probably written by someone who has RAID0 capture-only drives and feels he needs to justify it in his own mind. Not the case in the real world. At least not for my MPEG2 caps. Maybe DV would require the mongo fast drives.

[lchiu7]

I run 60G Seagate as primary master, 250G Maxtor as secondary master with Sony burner on same channel as the 60G and Sony DVDROM on the other channel (so I burn from the 250G to the Sony on the other channel). Also have a 120G WD USB2 plus another 180G on the network. Drive space is not an issue - backing up is

[proggy]

you have a motherboard that will support 5 IDE devices? plus your rom and recordable drives?

They do exist. The asus p4p800 deluxe will do 2-sata and 8-ide all at once. Only 4 of the ide's will support the use of cd/dvd roms. The other four are part of the raid chip.

[gmatov]

Housepig, et al,

I don't think anypone NEEDS a 1 TB drive. Bragging rights, OK, but what in the hell could you use it for, I mean as in what file could possibly be so large you did not want to span 2 or more drives?

If you are a financial institution, you would never trust that data to a HDD, backup to tape on a daily, at least, basis.

Cheers
,
George

[Capmaster]

I run 60G Seagate as primary master, 250G Maxtor as secondary master with Sony burner on same channel as the 60G and Sony DVDROM on the other channel (so I burn from the 250G to the Sony on the other channel). Also have a 120G WD USB2 plus another 180G on the network. Drive space is not an issue - backing up is

I'm not sure it's wise to have an optical drive and a HD on the same channel. Have you tried keeping the primary channel HD-only and the secondary channel optical-only?

The optical drive might slow down the IDE bus and hurt HD read/write performance.