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    Seagate takes it to half a terabyte

    Seagate is today launching a range of Barracuda desktop hard drives delivering up to 500GB of storage capacity. The 7200.9 family of Barracudas sports the latest in SATA features, including, as you'd expect, NCQ. You also get a claimed 3Gbps data transfer rate and the latest ClickConnect connections for SATA cables.
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    It would appear that drives are rocketing up now, and again we are seeing a huge drop.

    With 250GB drives at the 75 mark, and 320 at just under 100 - well a 1TB array mmm, would be rude not to

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    300 seems to be the smart ammount to plump for now. Gets you a nice ammount of space, and it doesn't actually cost that much considering.

    I can't wait for perpendicular, 2TB hdd's here we come

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    I say - 5 * 320GB drives, with the ability to make it 8
    2 DVDRWs or soemthing....
    .... and you have a perfect media server

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    Quote Originally Posted by David
    I say - 5 * 320GB drives, with the ability to make it 8
    2 DVDRWs or soemthing....
    .... and you have a perfect media server
    Yeap I only need an Xbox360 now to complete my task.

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    this is bad, this is very very bad!

    Be easier it is to build a 1TB+ RAID-5 the more likely i am to build one.

    not good.... sooooooooo not good..........

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    wouldn't the defragging time be horrendous on a 500Gb drive?

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    Probably for a start, but if you do it regualrly enought then there isn't much to defragment and rearrange really - I have 120Gb over 2 drives and to do them one after the other takes about 20minutes max. 20mins*5 (very rough estimate) = 1hr 40, just leave it on overnight - that's what I do anyway
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    Point is - I wouldn't put this in my desktop - have it as a NAS box and then you can leave it doing that overnight or something

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    Quote Originally Posted by cptwhite_uk
    wouldn't the defragging time be horrendous on a 500Gb drive?
    Thats what night time is for

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    The other point to consider is hardware failure (something that has happened to me recently - see, I TOLD you I needed some new hardware!). Losing 20 Gig is bad - losing 300 Gig of stuff is very bad indeed! And you're not going to be able to back it up anywhere (unless you have lots of ca$h available! lol) so you practically HAVE to have some sort of RAID....

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    Quote Originally Posted by David
    Point is - I wouldn't put this in my desktop - have it as a NAS box and then you can leave it doing that overnight or something
    A home made NAS maybe, but a proper NAS? I wouldn't, those things are a horrendous waste of money.

    The other point to consider is hardware failure (something that has happened to me recently - see, I TOLD you I needed some new hardware!). Losing 20 Gig is bad - losing 300 Gig of stuff is very bad indeed! And you're not going to be able to back it up anywhere (unless you have lots of ca$h available! so you practically HAVE to have some sort of RAID....
    Well, backing up is still an option, just not on Optical storage. But tbh I reckon you'd be mad to atttempt to back stuff up on storage and hold it for more then 8 months.

    Tape drives would be one solution. They're capacity is getting huge, yes theres a large initial outlay, but probably cheaper then a full RAID of 500 drives, and their capacity can be in the hundreds. Also, the things last like 20 years untouched.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cptwhite_uk
    wouldn't the defragging time be horrendous on a 500Gb drive?
    I've defragged my RAID a few times, doesn't really take very long but then I don't regularly uninstall/re-install stuff to fragment the drive that much.
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    11 ms average seek time. That's a perceptable difference in speed if you're used to the more common 9 ms.
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    I got over a TB already.. I find it a pain to maintain. If it wasnt for my dvd's and ISO's I'd just get rid of it! also, keep in mind that larger drives are slower simply due to there indexes. Have to manage that database of all thoes files takes up alot of space on the drive and it takes longer to locate your file.

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