biggest hardrive

mecoatwar · 01-11-2007, 06:04 PM

Ok well what hardrive has the most capacity on the market right now dosent matter what the price is just the best one out

**8210GUY** · 01-11-2007, 06:42 PM

Well 500gig is quite common now, and I know Terabyte drives exist, but you wont find them in your average places, come to that not even sure you will get one in normal circulation, but I have a vague recollection of seeing the odd 750gig drive around, but at the prices these are running at 500gig is about the best deal around from what I know.

Rmesser · 01-11-2007, 07:16 PM

i still dont get why ppl would need a terabyte, its useless in my opinion. expecially for home use.

**twajetmech** · 01-11-2007, 11:57 PM

Collecting photos, music, home videos and dvr functions can eat up even a 750Gb hard drive faster than you can blink....just depends on what you use your computer for. Even on my laptop, 100Gb with all the cbt and training vids, photos, powerpoint presentations and such is not a whole lot of space.

crazijoe · 01-12-2007, 06:09 AM

Seagate 1TB drive by June.

http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/...gate1tb_1.html

**linderman** · 01-12-2007, 07:04 AM

IMHO you'd be better served running 4 x 250 gig drives than one bit T drive

with the lower reliability of hard drives these days; losing such a big drive would be grounds for suicide

i cant even imagine the time it would take to defrag or back-up that puppy! LOL (you'd have to do that while on vacation!

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crazijoe · 01-12-2007, 07:08 AM

Very true linderman.
I do find it ironic that the size of the drives are outpacing the transfer speed.

**TheMatt** · 01-12-2007, 05:21 PM

If you want the best out there I would get a bunch of smaller hard drives and set up a backup system. Why don't you set up RAID 1 with 4 x 500 GB hard drives, and then they will be fast and your data will be redundant.

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mecoatwar Registered User Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 262 OS: xp My System	biggest hardrive Ok well what hardrive has the most capacity on the market right now dosent matter what the price is just the best one out

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linderman Moderator, Hardware Team Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 20,402 OS: win 2000 pro / Win XP pro My System	IMHO you'd be better served running 4 x 250 gig drives than one bit T drive with the lower reliability of hard drives these days; losing such a big drive would be grounds for suicide i cant even imagine the time it would take to defrag or back-up that puppy! LOL (you'd have to do that while on vacation! ) __________________ Even a Broken Clock is Right Twice a Day ! Power Supply Selection LEARN TO BACK-UP YOUR DATA FREE & EASY YouTube - Runtime Software DriveImage XML tutorial

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8210GUY TSF Enthusiast Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 1,558 OS: xp Pro	Well 500gig is quite common now, and I know Terabyte drives exist, but you wont find them in your average places, come to that not even sure you will get one in normal circulation, but I have a vague recollection of seeing the odd 750gig drive around, but at the prices these are running at 500gig is about the best deal around from what I know.

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crazijoe Registered User Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Omaha, The Center of the Universe Posts: 7,632 OS: WinXP, Win2K3 My System	Very true linderman. I do find it ironic that the size of the drives are outpacing the transfer speed. __________________ Microsoft MCSA + Messaging, MVP, A+, Network+ http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b3...other/Help.jpg Do you want a real Republican? HDD diagnostic tools / HDD data recovery software

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