500GB drives are nice but too expensive.

Just ordered an Areca ARC-1220 (8-port SATA) and 4x300GB Seagate today. Going to upgrade the old terabyte server.

Hmm, will this do good for storing my assembly source files on the Freescale '08 processors?

Finally a drive that can hold all of my pictures, now if I can find the time to sort all the crappy ones from the good ones.

-LS

It's still maxtor though, so no thanks.

I bet they still fail in record time too.

Drive capacity is the most inaccurate thing I've ever heard. This will hold what, 450GB? When will a gigabyte be 1024^4 bytes?

I"ve luckily never had a hard drive fail. w00t for me!

I've had Maxtors in all my computers, and they've done well.

Still wonder what they mean by "shipping", though.

2004 Q3 and 2004 Q4, we had a devil of a time trying to get Maxline Plus III 300GB drives. We'd order 500 and only get 50. The 300GB DM10's were easy enough to get, but the Maxlines... not so.

Then again everyone goes through this problem. Seagate's 7200.8 16MB's... how late are they? o_O

With a 500GB capacity I think it's a pretty safe bet it'll have greater aerial capacity then DiamondMax 10... using 5 platters to reach 500GB capacity wouldn't exactly be the easiest thing to do.

I wonder how much porn you can fit in that? :)