CrunchGear

Great! Problem is, if you got 1TB of stuff, you also need another to back it up on ;-) So the real question should be…. when will we have 1TB Solid State Memory Chips? There are too many moving parts in HD to be dependable unless you got 2 of them :-(

Jon

Having two of them doesn’t really make them more dependable. It just means you spent the money to have a plan B. I agree, there is no reason for me to put all my data in one basket that big when there is a possibility for things to go wrong. I’m perfectly content having it spread across multiple 250Gb drives.

… then your RAID system fails and causes a domino effect loosing everything… I prefer to burn my stuff to DVD (blueray will be really cool) every few weeks as a backup… takes forever but at least, I can go back a few months if I need to - no hardware failures or vacuum cleaner erasing magnetic ions.

Jon

This will be great for DVRs!

Man guys, I’ve yet to get over 200 on my 250, how much porn do you actually need? :)

Jon,

Use RAID 5 or RAID 10 then you don’t have to worry as much about RAID Failure, but I agree the only way to be safe is to keep your important data on tape in a fireproof box.

Cost, meet floor. HD’s and storage space is setting the stage for video big time.

drdrew

I think a lot of big data users pack their hard drives with huge photos collections, huge video collections, or even running their websites. One of my friend runs a pretty decent if eccentric “The Price is Right” fansite, and he uses a computer as a server.

Like patent-monkey and drdrew also said, I can’t wait until more and more manufacturers realize the potential that HDs have for DVR and video period. Of course, video on demand will have to keep up with the growth of HDs, but there’s so much potential for growth.

Well the thing is you can get away with using the drives in a raid 1 configuration if you have a smart controller.
Some of the real stupid ones will take the contents of a dieing drive and perfectly mirror the errors onto you nice and still working second drive.
Raid 5 is over kill in most operations.
There’s no reason why a 1tb hd would be any more unreliable than a 250gb hd but yes you do stand a good chance of the loss of lots of your data in a failure.
I’m always pressed for space so I totally welcome a larger storage space.
As for solid state HD based on flash, yes there out there but…
They cost bank. http://www.dvnation.com/nand-flash-ssd.html

blobs blobs blobs blobs ……… meat spiner meat spiner meat spiner …… blobs blobs blobs FU ALL MWHAHAHAHA

DAM Seagate

the Seagate 750GB HD was a price pice of shit.
-it would stop spining
-very loud
-very slow

can not wait the to what type of shit they pull with the 1TB HD
I gussing it will be very slow.

I would get the Hitachi 1TB HD “7K1000″
not very price
not slow
dependable

DAM, I think you are retarded.
It would stop “spining”? What the hell is spining? I hope my hard drives aren’t “spining”.
BTW, all hard drives have a failure rate below 1%.
Your own experiences don’t count for shit, buy a Seagate, a Western Digital, a Samsung, a Hitachi, a Toshiba, a Fujitsu. They are all fine.

I have about 1.5TB in total storage, and am soon to need more. My ever growing collection of video fills them rapidly.
Out of maybe 20 hard drives ive seen 1 fail. And that was due to a user error of trying to compress and defrag a full harddrive, and it locked up with scrambled data.(dont let people use your comps -.-)
I would not mind 4 , 1TB hard drives. Then maybe i could use 2TB’s and have the other 2 as backup.

I am about to purchase a 500 GB hardrive. I am not too experienced with these kinds of things, I just need some more room. If anyone is feeling piticuarly magnanimous when they read this would you give me some tips on failures and problems .ect….My E-Mail is bliljerk101@yahoo.com

Hard drives are soooo sloooow. Bring on solid state memory!