Hitachi 1TB in stock!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Pabster]

Originally posted by: mudboy
Absolutely. I remember a time when Microcenter had a 540MB (that's MEGABYTES, kids) hard drive on sale for $279. I jumped on that thing faster than an epileptic on a trampoline.

Pete

Heh, I remember buying a 20MB (yes, 20 MEGABYTE) hard disk for my Tandy HX1000. It cost $599.

The good old days...right? :laugh:

 

[Tdavis5432]

Originally posted by: Dubb
so any other places have these in stock at a decent price? several shops showed stock had them wed-thurs last week, I ordered two from onsale.com @ $365. two days later, I get an email saying there's a problem with my CC, I call a half dozen times friday and today, and when i finally reach someone, they say it's out of stock.

I need these soon to finish my new computer and get my data transfered over. My apartment is a mess of computer parts.

and on top of it all I just found out I didn't get the job I was going for (it was perfect for me). One of those weeks....

CDW has it in stock, its $444.99 though, still cheaper than the egg...
Linky

 

[mrrman]

I wouldnt want it in the event that it crashes...Id rather have 320's

 

[Dubb]

Originally posted by: mrrman
I wouldnt want it in the event that it crashes...Id rather have 320's

You should always have backups whether your data is on 320s or 1TBs. My 750 is just starting to go south...and I don't care...I have backups and a 5 year warranty.


I grabbed one of these off ebay for $410 shipped...I can pre order a second from buy.com for $395 shipped after 5% coupon.

I think I'm set for my new workstation.

 

[TekDemon]

Originally posted by: jimmybgood

Originally posted by: funboy42
Why dont they just go back to the 5 1/4 size and make some 20-30tb drives then? I just took apart a 40mb old Mitsubishi drive that was 5 1/4, and I have but one dvd drive in my case with 3 more opening for that size, so why not go back to making them that big, you could make one hell of a size with 5 1/4 I would think And prolly cheap too.

For a given rpm, the speed of the edge of the platter is proportional to the diameter. The platters that Hitachi is using would fail (break apart?) at 7200 rpm, if they were made 5 1/4". That's why 10,000 rpm drives have lower data densities and higher prices.

The large, low performance Quantum Bigfoots were not very popular, though Dell stuck lots of folks with them.

Well, they could obviously make the platters such that they wouldn't fail and go back to 5 1/4, but then there would be a much more drastic difference in speed at the outer edge of the platter and speed on the inside of the platter, and probably make the drive slower. You could just lower the RPM speed actually so that it could read the outer edge at the same data rate (since I'm sure how fast the heads can read the data is also a limiting factor), but that would just make in the insides molasses slow.

I owned one of those Bigfoots btw...a 2.5GB model...I think it spun at 2000 RPM or so. Slow doesn't really begin to describe it. I mean, we're talking about getting maybe 2-3MB/sec when it was well defragged and on the outer edge of the disc.

 

[soccerballtux]

Originally posted by: Googer

Originally posted by: us3rnotfound
I think it would have been smarter if you didn't post this.

Go easy on him, he is new with only 9 posts. On second thought, he could be a newegg.com employee.

This is why I think the moderators (like the one that posted here earlier) should exercise a little more leniency in their modding of this forum. I'm sure we get people from across the internet googling for "hot computer hardware deals" who find this forum-- allowing the rest of the anandtech community to yay/nay the "hotness" of a deal (politely) would do nothing but educate the newbies about whether or not they should pick the deal up if they've been interested in something similar for a time.

I wouldn't call "you know this really isn't a hot deal" threadcrapping; threadcrapping would be "this deal sucks nobody cares stop posting". In my opinion.

 

[soccerballtux]

Originally posted by: hansmuff

Originally posted by: funboy42
Why dont they just go back to the 5 1/4 size and make some 20-30tb drives then? I just took apart a 40mb old Mitsubishi drive that was 5 1/4, and I have but one dvd drive in my case with 3 more opening for that size, so why not go back to making them that big, you could make one hell of a size with 5 1/4 I would think And prolly cheap too.

Actually, Quantum tried that route with the BigFoot drives a couple of years ago.
5 1/4" drives, low rotational speed.

Pro: Cheap
Con: VERY slow (the seek times were crazy because of the large platters and low rotational speed)

In the end, the BigFoot drives died pretty quickly. If you want to pursue your thought further, googling that particular model might help.

Hm. I wouldn't be completely opposed to this though. Get a 500GB or 1TB main drive, and then have a 25TB storage drive for files etc. Even if it only spun at half or a quarter speed, that's still 30 rotations/second, which would be plenty for file storage and ripped-movie-viewing-and-streaming.

 

[Speckledpig]

I think I still have a bigfoot laying around somewhere. I seem to remember that it was less thick than a 5.25" drive.

 

[pcslookout]

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: jdoggg12

Originally posted by: Pabster

Originally posted by: Kaido
32mb cache?? :Q

Yep. It's pretty snappy too, from the reviews I've seen, considering the size.

right on par with the raptor 150

Yeah, that's why I bought a Maxline 500 for my latest desktop build - the reports I read said that they were nearly as quick as a Raptor in day-to-day use. Half the cost and nearly 4 times the storage, why not?

Not at all I compared all three and the Raptor 150 feels a lot faster.

 

[Pabster]

Originally posted by: Dubb
You should always have backups whether your data is on 320s or 1TBs. My 750 is just starting to go south...and I don't care...I have backups and a 5 year warranty.

:thumbsup:

Backup is one of the most important yet oft overlooked aspects.

You never realize how important it is until you need it. And it makes no difference if the drive is 40GB or 1000GB.

 

[pcslookout]

Originally posted by: Pabster

Originally posted by: Dubb
You should always have backups whether your data is on 320s or 1TBs. My 750 is just starting to go south...and I don't care...I have backups and a 5 year warranty.

:thumbsup:

Backup is one of the most important yet oft overlooked aspects.

You never realize how important it is until you need it. And it makes no difference if the drive is 40GB or 1000GB.

You don't need a huge hard drive for backups either.

 

[Pabster]

Originally posted by: pcslookout
You don't need a huge hard drive for backups either.

That depends on how much you are looking to backup.

My personal method involves a multi-tier approach. Hard disk backup is just one facet of that. I think online storage and optical backups are a good idea as well.

Of course, it also depends on how critical the data is.

 

[pcslookout]

Originally posted by: Pabster

Originally posted by: pcslookout
You don't need a huge hard drive for backups either.

That depends on how much you are looking to backup.

My personal method involves a multi-tier approach. Hard disk backup is just one facet of that. I think online storage and optical backups are a good idea as well.

Of course, it also depends on how critical the data is.

Yes but you only really need to backup your installed os and application partition. Which for the most part should only be at the maximum 20 to 30 GB.

What online storage do you use and how much does it cost ? Is it really worth it ? When you refer to optical backups are you talking about blank dvds ?

 

[Pabster]

Originally posted by: pcslookout
Yes but you only really need to backup your installed os and application partition. Which for the most part should only be at the maximum 20 to 30 GB.

Well, I like to backup the gigs and gigs of music I've purchased, the gigs of music videos and TV shows, etc. That needs a fair bit more than 20 or 30 gigs

What online storage do you use and how much does it cost ? Is it really worth it ?

I use Carbonite. $5 a month for all you can store. They'll start to cap your daily uploads over 50GB stored and I imagine they'd terminate you completely if you get carried away. But certainly enough for the most critical data storage. I absolutely love it.

When you refer to optical backups are you talking about blank dvds ?

Yep. I maintain full backups on DVD as well. You can never be too careful.

 

[pcslookout]

Originally posted by: Pabster

Originally posted by: pcslookout
Yes but you only really need to backup your installed os and application partition. Which for the most part should only be at the maximum 20 to 30 GB.

Well, I like to backup the gigs and gigs of music I've purchased, the gigs of music videos and TV shows, etc. That needs a fair bit more than 20 or 30 gigs

What online storage do you use and how much does it cost ? Is it really worth it ?

I use Carbonite. $5 a month for all you can store. They'll start to cap your daily uploads over 50GB stored and I imagine they'd terminate you completely if you get carried away. But certainly enough for the most critical data storage. I absolutely love it.

When you refer to optical backups are you talking about blank dvds ?

Yep. I maintain full backups on DVD as well. You can never be too careful.

Interesting but do you think you can rely on Carbonite to never loose your data or have it become corrupt ? I guess thats why you take proactive plans and backup all on dvds as well. Do you back it up onto another hard drive too?

 

[ayabe]

Originally posted by: Pabster

Originally posted by: mudboy
Absolutely. I remember a time when Microcenter had a 540MB (that's MEGABYTES, kids) hard drive on sale for $279. I jumped on that thing faster than an epileptic on a trampoline.

Pete

Heh, I remember buying a 20MB (yes, 20 MEGABYTE) hard disk for my Tandy HX1000. It cost $599.

The good old days...right? :laugh:

Cassette FTW.

Look at the bones man!!!!!

 

[Pabster]

Originally posted by: pcslookout
Interesting but do you think you can rely on Carbonite to never loose your data or have it become corrupt ? I guess thats why you take proactive plans and backup all on dvds as well. Do you back it up onto another hard drive too?

Well, that's why I use a multi-tier approach. If the data is destroyed or lost in one place it is readily available somewhere else.

Carbonite and similar services are great because the data is off-site (they use servers on both coasts for redundancy) and you have access to it anytime, anywhere.

And yes I do use external hard disks for backup as well.

 

[solo717]

they are back in stock for $399.99 now...