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Da Dego · 15th Oct 2007, 15:06

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2007/10..._larger_hdds/1

Hitachi has plans to shrink heads in 2009. The company has announced its Current Perpendicular-to-the-Plane Giant Magneto-Resistive head technology. Say that three times fast!

Bluephoenix · 15th Oct 2007, 15:31

I'll take 8 for a RAID 6 array

Delphium · 15th Oct 2007, 15:44

I dunno, I just dont feel safe putting data on such large drives, im not yet 100% confident about 1tb disks.
Having had hard drives die on me in the past, a 4tb or even a 1tb drive loss could be rather painfull without some form of a reliable backup solution.
Used in RAID of cause is a different matter, so I would never buy just 1 of these on there own

8x4tb in raid 6... yer I could settle for that

LeMaltor · 15th Oct 2007, 15:54

Imagine a 4TB Deathstar going belly up lol

steveo_mcg · 15th Oct 2007, 16:04

i'll get the first pron gag in then shall i.,..... 4tb that's a lot of PRON!

I suppose if the costs come down then backing up would be less painful one in your rig and one in a file sever everything is copied overnight but right now lossing even 500gb is painful.

E.E.L. Ambiense · 15th Oct 2007, 16:23

After the whole 'deathstar' debacle, I can safely say I generally choose Hitachis for customer builds and have never had one go bad out of dozens of systems. I use one of the SATA units in my 98SE (!) recording system for a couple years without incident. Good quiet reliable drives.

I'm looking forward to seeing where they are going with this.

MilkMan5 · 15th Oct 2007, 16:40

Bring it on…

The bigger the drive sizes, the better for us all – just thing about how cheap a 500MB drive will be then!

Hells_Bliss · 15th Oct 2007, 16:44

did you mean GB?

4tb drives? good god thats a lot of songs/movies/porn/games

Renoir · 15th Oct 2007, 16:51

With these high capacity drives the only reasonable way of backing them up is to another high capacity drive. DVDs would take forever and blu-ray/hd-dvd isn't going to become viable for a good while by which time we'll be up even higher in HDDs. Suppose we better get used to buying drives in pairs

MilkMan5 · 15th Oct 2007, 17:09

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hells_Bliss

did you mean GB?

xtroid22k · 15th Oct 2007, 19:28

Well,

Ok; data needs will always increase by the minute. I remeber being hyped about my 1.2GB HDD back 12 years ago. Here we are today at 1TB and now 4TB; no supprise. I will never have an issue getting a 4 or 8 or who knows a 1 Petabyte drive down the road.

The problem is, that saving data was easy years ago; but with the onsite of higher data storage. Enterprise level backup solutions will have to make it down to the home market in some way or fashion. Especially a coast effective solution.

Thanks

HourBeforeDawn · 15th Oct 2007, 19:49

WOW AWESOME

but

god imagine how freaking LONG it would take to format the damn thing, be like alright I started formating I will see you in a day or two lol and if that drive ever crashed your screwed....

proxess · 15th Oct 2007, 20:37

sooo much pr00000n *drools*

g3n3tiX · 15th Oct 2007, 21:08

CPP-GMR ? I'd rather ASHPD...

seriously, this means a LOT of space...and the technology looks like it comes straght from the Nobel Prize winner(s)...(French, yay! and German)
Hurray for Science ! (and Physics that enable us to store a lot of ...uh...media on our HDD !

Ghys · 15th Oct 2007, 21:46

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Originally Posted by HourBeforeDawn

WOW AWESOME

but

god imagine how freaking LONG it would take to format the damn thing, be like alright I started formating I will see you in a day or two lol and if that drive ever crashed your screwed....

It's actually a good point.They will need to find a way to format the drives faster than the regular technique...Because even a quick format will take FOREVER

DXR_13KE · 15th Oct 2007, 22:28

Quote:

Originally Posted by proxess

sooo much pr00000n *drools*

in your case hentai

..... but anyway that is a *hit load of pron.......

edit: imagine the read speeds on those.....

The_Beast · 15th Oct 2007, 22:36

wow 4TB is a ton of data

completemadness · 15th Oct 2007, 23:30

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ghys

It's actually a good point.They will need to find a way to format the drives faster than the regular technique...Because even a quick format will take FOREVER

A quick format should just erase the file table or whatever, so it will still only take like 1 min

As the density will have increased, the speed of the drive will be higher, but even then a full format could take like 2 hours

Breach · 16th Oct 2007, 01:13

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Originally Posted by E.E.L. Ambiense

After the whole 'deathstar' debacle, I can safely say I generally choose Hitachis for customer builds and have never had one go bad out of dozens of systems. I use one of the SATA units in my 98SE (!) recording system for a couple years without incident. Good quiet reliable drives.

I'm looking forward to seeing where they are going with this.

Yeah I have 2 160Gb Hitatchis that are still running strong after over 2 years. As I remember the "Deathstars" were one particular drive model, not the whole line.

But hot damn, 4Tb, I dont think every DVD movie, mp3 and program in my entire house would take up that much space...yet

E.E.L. Ambiense · 16th Oct 2007, 01:19

Quote:

Originally Posted by Breach

Yeah I have 2 160Gb Hitatchis that are still running strong after over 2 years. As I remember the "Deathstars" were one particular drive model, not the whole line.

Yeah, the 160's in particular. Nice quiet fast drives, and they stay cool too. In fact, just got another one in the post today in fact for yet another build!

The "Deathstar" thing was annoying because many started crying wolf over anything with a Hitachi logo on it, it seemed like. Come on, like WD and Seagate haven't made any lemons before. Don't even get me started on Maxtor.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Breach

But hot damn, 4Tb, I dont think every DVD movie, mp3 and program in my entire house would take up that much space...yet

lol. Worth a try though!

15th Oct 2007, 15:06	#1
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Renoir Multimodder Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Milton Keynes, UK Posts: 190	With these high capacity drives the only reasonable way of backing them up is to another high capacity drive. DVDs would take forever and blu-ray/hd-dvd isn't going to become viable for a good while by which time we'll be up even higher in HDDs. Suppose we better get used to buying drives in pairs

15th Oct 2007, 19:28	#11
xtroid22k What's a Dremel? Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 6	Yeah buddy Well, Ok; data needs will always increase by the minute. I remeber being hyped about my 1.2GB HDD back 12 years ago. Here we are today at 1TB and now 4TB; no supprise. I will never have an issue getting a 4 or 8 or who knows a 1 Petabyte drive down the road. The problem is, that saving data was easy years ago; but with the onsite of higher data storage. Enterprise level backup solutions will have to make it down to the home market in some way or fashion. Especially a coast effective solution. Thanks

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HourBeforeDawn a.k.a KazeModz Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Cali, USA Posts: 1,785	WOW AWESOME but god imagine how freaking LONG it would take to format the damn thing, be like alright I started formating I will see you in a day or two lol and if that drive ever crashed your screwed.... __________________ Current Rig: RubyRED • Lian-Li A05B • (2) Swiftech 220 Radiators • (2) D5 Variable Pumps • (2) Res • and a whole lot of modding • Retired Rig: Project F.E.A.R. • TT Lanbox Lite • Swiftech H2O-120 • Q6600 G0 OC@3.6ghz • 2900XT • 4gb SuperTalent Memory •

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g3n3tiX Resident frenchie Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: localhost Posts: 587	CPP-GMR ? I'd rather ASHPD... seriously, this means a LOT of space...and the technology looks like it comes straght from the Nobel Prize winner(s)...(French, yay! and German) Hurray for Science ! (and Physics that enable us to store a lot of ...uh...media on our HDD ! __________________ I also have a MTBF.

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The_Beast I am The Stig Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 3,212	wow 4TB is a ton of data __________________ Rendering Machine - Gigabyte DS3L P35 - C2Q Q6600 - Antec New Solution Series NSK4480B - Corsair XMS2 2Gb - Sapphire 2600 XT 256mb - Seagate 'Cuda 320 GB - Antec Earthwatt 430 watt - Windows XP Pro -