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General => Akihabara => Topic started by: chera on January 11, 2007, 07:31:00 AM
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(http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/2007/01/hitachi_1tb_box_sm.jpg)
1TB = approx 931GB.... but still, this baby can hold a LOT of porn! XD
7200 RPM, 8.5ms access time, 32MB buffer, 5 platters, approximate price $400.
Put that into my dream system (Black Thermaltake Armor case + 3 5SA Addonics SATA disk arrays), and you get 24TB of space.
(http://img187.imageshack.us/img187/3831/dreamsystemhf5.jpg)
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1TB = approx 931GB.
Isn't that 1024GB?
(and the box itself seems to say 1,000 even)
Damn that's a lot of space.
Can I have that dream system too?
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So.....much.....HD space.....:drool: :drool: :drool:
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Only $400. thats not really Expensive.
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Put that into my dream system (Black Thermaltake Armor case + 3 5SA Addonics SATA disk arrays), and you get 24TB of space.
Just curious, how do you get 24TB with this setup?
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^ 3*5=15 external + 9 internal?
(seems a waste of air containers actually)
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Would love to get just one of those, it'll take me quite some to try and fill it, though.
Yea, the $400 price tag isn't all too bad for one of those.
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Isn't that 1024GB?
(and the box itself seems to say 1,000 even)
Not really.
This 1TB drive they are selling isn't a 1,000GB drive, it's a 1,000,000,000,000 byte drive. Likewise, a drive marketed as 100GB doesn't actually have 100GB, it has 1,000,000,000 bytes.
Your OS calculates storage capacity using a different system: binary (2^X). That's why all drives you buy have a OS reported size different from what is stated in the marketing material. For example, a 250GB drive will have an actual capacity of 232GB.
1TB for $400 isn't too bad a deal, especially for space-constrained uses like media boxes. But still, it's hard to beat the bang per buck of the current going OEM rate of 250GB for $58 (see here (http://www.pricewatch.com/hard_drives/serial_ata_250gb.htm))
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Yeah it would be cheaper to have four 250GB disks in raid than one 1TB drive.
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Seems pretty nice, I'll pick one up when they get to around 200 bucks :P
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LOL have fun backing/transferring all that data up when ur hdd fails or fills up eventually.
OR alternatively just buy a new hdd. With the price of hdd so cheap nowadays, they should really lower the price of dl-dvdr disks.
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1TB! but the price is still high... it might be cheaper to buy 2 400GB Harddisks instead... though it would be more troublesome.
We can never have enough HD space, can we? :)
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If I have the money......
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I would love to have one for myself when I can afford it :D
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Its only gonna get cheaper. Remember how much 500GB drives were. Now they can be found for ~$100
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More things to lose when hard disk crash. It uses perpendicular recording technology, which is new. Will it last 5 years or break down in 2 years. The data is more expensive than the hardware in this case.
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hard drives will always die. it's not a question of if, but when.
if you aren't using a RAID array, you probably don't need access to the data 24/7/356, which means you really should power off the disks when they're not in use. if you are using RAID array, chances are with that many disks, you've already invested in a proper RAID controller. which means that even if one or two disks fail, you've already spent extra money (since you seem to have lots of it) on spare disks.
there are still plenty of good reasons to choose 1x1tb over 4x250. for one, you save a lot of physical space. for another, you end up only needing to power one drive, not four (which is still a problem in a desktop setup, since you need a massive PSU to power 15x or 24x drives). hdds to build up heat, so the fewer you have the less heat you have to deal with (not that it's safe to ignore, though). plus, with fewer drives and larger capacities, you can add more space to a standard setup without having to buy additional SATA ports.
still, at $450 per drive for 24x drives, plus maybe roughly $4000 for good server components including a proper RAID card, you're looking at a $16000 investment. though more expensive, you may want to invest instead in a sun X4500 [http://www.sun.com/servers/x64/x4500/ (http://www.sun.com/servers/x64/x4500/)]. that beast features sun's new ZFS file system, for guaranteed data integrity regardless of how many disks fail (as long as it's not more than 2 at once, while it recovers data). of course, the X4500 isn't a toy, and requires a LOT of power, plus industrial-rated air conditioning systems and so forth. but a homegrown storage server would need something similar anyway...
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^ ouch, X4500 is $70,000 for 24TB and 12TB for $33,000
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^ ouch, X4500 is $70,000 for 24TB and 12TB for $33,000
quiet expensive for your audio or video collection :P