News Hitachi paves the way to larger HDDs

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2007/10/15/hitachi_paves_the_way_to_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!

 

I'll take 8 for a RAID 6 array

 

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

 

Imagine a 4TB Deathstar going belly up lol

 

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.

 

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.

 

Bring it on…

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

 

did you mean GB?

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

 

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

 

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

 

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....

 

sooo much pr00000n *drools*

 

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 !

 

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

 

in your case hentai ..... but anyway that is a *hit load of pron.......

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

 

wow 4TB is a ton of data

 

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

 

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

 

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.

lol. Worth a try though!