Comments for: 1TB hard drives 'likely' before next year

#23. Posted at 03:33 PM on Aug 15th 2006

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crabjokeman

So can I download the internet yet?

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#25, Its TUBES! : Bauxite (#31) «

#31, rofl a series of tubes : droopy1592 (#33) «

#23, pfft. At the speeds the internet goes at now? Pass. : DrDillyBar (#32) «

#30. Posted at 10:21 PM on Aug 15th 2006

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_Shorty

um, you should *never* fear losing any amount of data, because you should be DOING BACKUPS OF CRAP YOU DON'T WANT TO LOSE. Duh.

#1. Posted at 10:51 AM on Aug 15th 2006, Edited at 10:52 AM on Aug 15th 2006

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grug

I'd feel a little uneasy about the prospect of losing 1TB of data in one hit, but doubly so with a Deathstar label on the drive.

Still, a great milestone. And you've gotta love Hitachi's animation.

#1, The drives have changed a lot since the deathstar days. : dextrous (#3) «

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#10, I have a 66% failure rate with Maxtor drives. : True Xploder (#16) «

#16, Thing is, they were great until ~3 years ago. I've ... : just brew it! (#18) «

#3, Hey - darwin:~# cat /proc/ide/hda/model IC35L060AVER07-0 Do ... : wilreichert (#29) «

#1, Deathstar eh? Hmmm, the unfortunately apt nickname of the 12... : cynan (#5) «

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#5, IBM sold it's hard drive segment to Hitachi, that's what ... : Delphis (#8) «

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#14. Posted at 12:02 PM on Aug 15th 2006

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grug

For the record I have a Hitachi Travelstar 7K60 in my iBook and it's great with no problems whatsoever . But I still feel uneasy -- rational or not -- with the Deskstar as a brand (just as I would a Diamondmax, despite owning one which also has been great) and I'd rather pick up a 5 year warranty Seagate is all.

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#27. Posted at 05:33 PM on Aug 15th 2006

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d0g_p00p

Ugg. After losing 250GB last week, I fear losing 1TB of info. I'll tell you what. I have 2 new 250GB + a NetCell in the mail. This data loss hit me hard.

#19. Posted at 02:02 PM on Aug 15th 2006

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ShadowEyez

If 1TB = 931GB after the "converstion" why don't they just advertise the "converted" number. I wish drive makers and OS makers (and filesystem writers) could agree on using SI or powers of 2 when listing capacities. I heard a while back someone sued Western Digital for this and they had to give everyone with certain models of drives $30 worth of backup software; IMHO they got off with a slap on the wrist; if they had been ordered to pay the plantiffs I bet a consensous on how to better represent capacities in the future would have quickly been reached.