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Storage 4TB HDDs have landed!

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by IanW, 14 Mar 2012.

  1. IanW

    IanW Grumpy Old Git

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    IanW, 14 Mar 2012
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  2. KidMod-Southpaw

    KidMod-Southpaw Super Spamming Saiyan

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    You'd think at this time, manufacturers would be concentrating on trying to get supplies replenished faster instead of making a bigger hard drive.

    Still pretty cool though.
     
    KidMod-Southpaw, 14 Mar 2012
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  3. Pete J

    Pete J Employed scum

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    Woah! For the man who must have everything on the internet downloaded!

    Very pricey though. A 3Tb drive costs ~£150 at the moment.
     
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  4. KayinBlack

    KayinBlack Unrepentant Savage

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    I'll take six.

    Someone wanna give me 8 SSDs while they're at it? I need to fill my storage controller.
     
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  5. specofdust

    specofdust Banned

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    Oh damn I want this. 8(-1) x 4 Tb = 25.2 Tib RAID 5 array.

    How much are kidney's worth, anyone know?
     
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  6. KayinBlack

    KayinBlack Unrepentant Savage

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    Somebody got an iPad2 for one.
     
    KayinBlack, 14 Mar 2012
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  7. specofdust

    specofdust Banned

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    Ipad? I want solid chunks of highly engineered metal and glass . Not a toy!
     
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  8. The_Beast

    The_Beast I like wood ಠ_ಠ

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    SO MUCH DATA TO LOSE IF IT FAILS!!!!


    I wouldn't want that data much on a single disk without a backup
     
    The_Beast, 14 Mar 2012
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  9. specofdust

    specofdust Banned

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    RAID + external. Done.
     
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  10. healthhazad

    healthhazad What's a Dremel?

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    Got a nice new 10TB SSD array at work today, though wouldn't mind another with 4TB 15k SAS drives for mass storage...
     
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  11. debs3759

    debs3759 Was that a warranty I just broke?

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    Ooh, I better get those 8-way RAID cards ready (I suppose I'd better buy them first!) and get a couple of dozen of these. Gotta put all the spare room in my Little Devil case to good use :)

    I'd love to put 4 high-end GPUs and 3 fully populated RAID cards in there. Anyone wanna buy my neighbours house so I can pay for it all?
     
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  12. lp1988

    lp1988 Minimodder

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    So you need two of course :D

    But isn't there something about a limit to what the current BIOS can support in terms of storage or have they worked themselves around that ?

    At least I recall reading something about it back when the 2 TB drives started to appear.
     
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  13. RichCreedy

    RichCreedy Hey What Who

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    uefi bios gets around the 2tb drive limit
     
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  14. BearC

    BearC Profound Modification

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    Nightmare drive, just to big, don't keep all eggs in one basket.
     
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  15. KayinBlack

    KayinBlack Unrepentant Savage

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    There's more uses for 4TB drives than bung everything on one drive. Large RAID arrays. Why else would I upgrade my RAID card?
     
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  16. Pookeyhead

    Pookeyhead It's big, and it's clever.

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    Then have a back up. 2TB, 3TB, or 4TB.. if you buy one disk and use it as storage without back up, you're mental.
     
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