1 terabyte drives are out!

[David Nahmani]

I'm not exactly sure when those babies came out, but you can now purchase 1TB Hitachi drives, putting up to 4TB storage mass inside your Mac Pro.

 

Wow.

 

http://www.hitachigst.com/portal/site/en/menuitem.8027a91c954924ae4bda9f30eac4f0a0/

 

Best price seen online so far is BestBuy.com: $319.99 (please update this thread is you see a better price!) The drives show as "backordered" though...

[marcel72]

Hmmm...

 

Realize the possibility of never having to move stuff off the work drives, and never feeling the nagging doubt that something may go all messy in the process...

 

Very attractive. And drive space is going the way of consumer electronics. Ridiculously cheap.

 

Cool.

[musick]

Don't go for the highest capacity drives, they often are not as reliable as 'older' ones and the GByte/$ ratio is worse....

[David Nahmani]

Don't go for the highest capacity drives, they often are not as reliable as 'older' ones

I disagree.

 

I don't think anyone has tested the long-term reliability of 1TB drives yet, for obvious reasons.

 

So the only sources we have to guesstimate the reliability of the new drives is the manufacturers themselves. Despite the fact that they have an obvious bias, they also have a reputation to affirm, not just with our niche market of music and video pros, but with a huge market of IT professionals. Reading articles by Hitachi and Seagate show PMR (perpendicular technology, the technology used in 1TB drives) to be more efficient, using less heads and less drives, generating less noise and less heat, and more reliable, than the "current" (past?) technology.

 

I would buy the 1TB in a heartbeat.. if I had the need for it. It is my experience that the bigger, newer drives are usually more reliable than the smaller, older ones.

[musick]

I fully agree that the advantages of less heads, less heat etc. will increase reliability in the long run, but the new technologies used in those drives will likely have there starting problems.... IBM had it's share with the 'DeathStars' (before they sold the DeskStar division to Hitachi), I encounterd Maxtor SATA drives timing out at random times..... I personally only would use such new drives in a RAID configuration for the time being

[David Nahmani]

Well one thing is for sure:

 

WHATEVER HARD DRIVE YOU BUY, BACK UP, BACK UP, BACK UP, BACK UP, AND BACK UP SOME MORE!!!

[musick]

BACK UP, BACK UP, BACK UP, BACK UP, AND BACK UP SOME MORE!!!

Absolutely! And the most practical way to backup 1T is to copy the data to another 1T drive

[Logic Pro]

Yeah man, i have 6x 750GB drives !

 

I house 3 in a old G4 tower while run identical clones via Super-Duper from ext.FW enclosures.

 

 

I can tell you guys that 2 went bad on me, sometimes i also get bad bit maps and they refuse to mount, i used DataRescue recently when a M-Audio Projectmix i/o zapped a FW drive between booting into automation modes, been that the iMac i have shares the firewire bus it zapped my FW "Project" drive and i had stuff on it that was very recent which Data Rescue recovered via folder hierarchy and all!

 

Allot of people do use 250GB ext. FW drives for film shoots instead of 500GB and up, so i say for every drive you buy get a 2nd one to clone it!

[ben parsons]

yeah, that's cool and all, but check THIS out...

http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h223/benparsons/apple_32_supermicro.jpg

[David Nahmani]

This was the first logo for Apple (true!)

[Waterboy]

Oh my gawd! That is awesome! I knew the big drives were only a matter of time, but these are truly great! I will have one with my 8-Core Mac Pro that I am going to buy in the "not too" distant future .... hopefully in a couple of weeks!

 

Those logos are neat too! It'd be nice to hang something like that on a wall or something!

 

Scott

[paulm]

Be awesome when they can put these drives in laptops

[guavadude]

I need to replace a drive in a PPC dual 2.5 G5. Is there a size limit for these.

I think the largest I've seen shipped in those was a 400GB, but can I replace it with something larger?

 

Also can I use a drive with a 16mb cache instead of the 8mb like what was stock?

 

thanks

[majool]

otherworldcomputing DOT com is a great place for terabyte drives. i just got a dual 500gig firewire 800 drive (raid) that's smoking fast and quiet for $350

[Waterboy]

How can anything compete with that?

Technology is simply amazing!

I still remember wayyyyy back when I was using a PC with a hard drive - that had less space on it than my RAM does today ..... which is only 2 GB's (BTW)

[biff_larken]

My first PC had 80 MB of data.... ran at (either) 8mHz or 25 mHz (don't understand the point of two speeds, but whatever) and probably about 1MB of ram....

 

Yeesh...

[dkgross]

I paid $300 for an 8 MEG RAM upgrade for my Atari 1040

[Waterboy]

my parents would've never allowed me to spend that much money on my 520ST (I realize we are talking apple and oranges). They looked at my Atari like a game machine!

[dkgross]

I produced and entire album of Motown Remixes back in 1990 for Step Reebok Aerobics using an Atari 1040 ST with Master Tracks Pro and a Tascam 388 1/4 inch 8 Track

 

those were the days. lololol.

[Neil Parfitt]

With any of these huge capacity drives being used for work scenarios... always budget for 2 of each drive you need... that way you can drop all your important data to the same capacity drive .. with no "do i have enough space to archive this??" hassle.

 

If the mega drive dies - you have the safety on the shelf... with hopefully a very recent backup!

[inflex]

accordingly to manufacturers data, 1TB hitachi has 1.2m hours MTBF (136years)

nothing to worry about

[Neil Parfitt]

Hah - well MTBF and real life are different things.

 

Either way always buy in pairs so you have a backup.

[David Nahmani]

Yeah MTBF has nothing to do with the average life of a drive!!!! That's more like 5 or 10 years.

[jeramy]

Hey all, Since you are talking about 1TB drives here, fwiw I got one of these Samsungs a few months ago for one of my internal drives in my MacPro. It works great and the price is way better! Hope it helps someone.

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152102

[route-electrique]

Hey all, Since you are talking about 1TB drives here, fwiw I got one of these Samsungs a few months ago for one of my internal drives in my MacPro. It works great and the price is way better! Hope it helps someone.

 

Yeah, i added one Samsung F1 1TB HDD when i got my Mac Pro. It was like around ~120€uros. I did some comparing, but everyone was hyping and praising for these suckers, so i bought one. Fit 5 of them to your Mac Pro and you have serious backing up problem . I have only 350GB+1TB on my system, which i can backup nicely to 2TB External.