Hitachi 1TB SATA Hard Drive sale.....sub $450

[Fluffdaddy]

Available from CDW at $444.99, "will ship within 6 days" . I haven't found it for sale anywhere else yet. Hopefully, it'll come down in a few weeks as other vendors start offering them.

http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/def...px?EDC=1184091

[UFGrayMatter]

Originally Posted by Fluffdaddy

Available from CDW at $444.99, "will ship within 6 days" . I haven't found it for sale anywhere else yet. Hopefully, it'll come down in a few weeks as other vendors start offering them.

http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/def...px?EDC=1184091

umm...best buy has had them for 399 (they are backordered)
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage....=1172880158065

[Fluffdaddy]

umm....................Thank You

[wvpolekat]

Thats a bunch of data to put in one place. It fails, your toast.

[Fluffdaddy]

Life's a b!tch

[dflachbart]

Originally Posted by wvpolekat

Thats a bunch of data to put in one place. It fails, your toast.

True, and I rather pay only $280 for 1 TB using two 500G disks...


Dirk

[jdamore]

Originally Posted by flachbar

True, and I rather pay only $280 for 1 TB using two 500G disks...


Dirk

Silly Q.. After format, will you loose the same amount of disk space with 2 500 giggers or 1TB?

Oh yeah.. if you need external:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822204018

[lovingHDTV]

Originally Posted by flachbar

True, and I rather pay only $280 for 1 TB using two 500G disks...


Dirk

erm and have twice the probability of a failure. Its a no win situatoin

[Opus4]

Originally Posted by wvpolekat

Thats a bunch of data to put in one place. It fails, your toast.

I wonder what year was that first said. It can be applied to any size hard drive and is what gets said every time a larger one comes out. As always: if the data is that important, then use some sort of backup system.

- Andy

[GKusnick]

Originally Posted by lovingHDTV

erm and have twice the probability of a failure. Its a no win situatoin

I think the point is that whatever combination of capacity and redundancy you require, you can achieve it at lower cost using 500 GB drives.

[jdamore]

Originally Posted by Opus4

I wonder what year was that first said. It can be applied to any size hard drive and is what gets said every time a larger one comes out. As always: if the data is that important, then use some sort of backup system.

- Andy

HAHA Yeah.. I wonder when first time someone said "You should just wait 6 months and it will be so much cheaper!".

[wvpolekat]

If really worried about data, you could run 4 500 gig drives in RAID 5 and have more capacity as well as more robustness for roughly the same cost.

[Opus4]

But, 500GB drives are pretty large too... better stick with something even smaller. You could probably get 20 50GB drives even cheaper on ebay, though RAIDing them will be a pain.

When 2TB drives are out, will the 1TB drives be safer to use? Maybe I'll wait for that. Plus two 1TB drives will be cheaper by then. I'm definitely waiting.

I'm just trying to point out that you can divide all the numbers posted above by 2 and all of this could have been said months ago... multiply by 2 and it will be said months from now.

Hmmm... four 1TB drives in RAID 5... there must be someone out there salivating about that.

- Andy

[wvpolekat]

Yes, but when taken in a cost per MB vs risk perspective, there are clear winners. And, those winners are a moving target as you point out.

I would say at the moment, to reach 1TB, RAID 5 with 500GB drives would be winner when factoring cost vs risk. Sure, you can reach it with 250GB drives, but after RAID overhead and costs, it isn't a good value.

Ultimately, each of us have to make a choice. Some are willing to risk the data to a single drive failure with either one large drive or a pair of RAID 0 500GB drives. Some are not willing to take that risk and will go with 3 500 GB drives in RAID 5.

Since to us mere mortals, effectively backing up 1 TB isn't reasonable, many will chose the most robust option and hope for the best.