Western Digital joins the Terabyte club

[Paul H]

Western Digital Caviar GP WD10EACS 1TB SATA Hard Drive:
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=336

[Kirby]

I've got two of these drives, so far using just one for my recording drive in Sage and its working great! Wasnt a bad deal at $259 each either Hope they will last a decent amount of time, only been running the one for 2 weeks now.

[elaw]

Oh c'mon, don't keep us in suspense... where'd you find it that cheap?

Enquiring minds want to know

[Paul H]

Best current prices:
http://techbargains.pricegrabber.com...earch=WD10EACS

[Kirby]

Bestbuy had them on sale at that price 2 weekends ago. Right now you can get them from Newegg for $309 shipped if you use the newegg mailing list coupon (EMC1011HDD01).

[stevech]

Unrelated to Sage, these low cost BIG drives, rarely in a RAID configuration, will shock naieve consumers when they lose thousands of photos and family videos when the drive fails.

[flavius]

Especially if it's WD.

[sainswor99]

Originally Posted by stevech

Unrelated to Sage, these low cost BIG drives, rarely in a RAID configuration, will shock naieve consumers when they lose thousands of photos and family videos when the drive fails.

There you go again stevech, always look on the bright side of life!

[sandor]

Originally Posted by stevech

Unrelated to Sage, these low cost BIG drives, rarely in a RAID configuration, will shock naieve consumers when they lose thousands of photos and family videos when the drive fails.

heh, reminds me of what a geeky photographer once told me - ATA drives are so cheap because you have to buy two at once. (insinuating the necessity to always have it backed up). That was in the waning days of SCSI on macintoshes... ah, how i kind of miss built in SCSI on every computer...


still, with the ability to load 10 or 12 drives into my NasLite server, i dont see the reason to go for the 1 TB for 2.5x the price of the 500 GB drives... anybody remember the days when the 120GB drives were at the sweet spot of $100?? ah, technology....

[thomaszoo]

I will date myself... when I bought my first PC I was told I was going way overboard with the HD... I got a 65 MB HD! I was told I would never fill that thing up. It was also a 5 1/4" model.

[tmiranda]

My first PC drive was a 10 MB model for one of the original IBM PCs. When I was one of the first developers inside IBM to get the x286 based PC with a 20 MB drive runninx Xenix I thought I'd died and gone to heaven.

[tipstir]

TB still pricey two 500GB still come out cheaper less than $200 bucks plus Maxtor either SATA 150 or PATA 133

[sandor]

Originally Posted by thomaszoo

I will date myself... when I bought my first PC I was told I was going way overboard with the HD... I got a 65 MB HD! I was told I would never fill that thing up. It was also a 5 1/4" model.

yeah, i was a mac head, and though i used the original Macintosh since '84, the first one i bought was a IIcx, and i got a 2 GB SCSI drive for that. I still have the original 2x SCSI external burner i got for that thing.... Ah Photoshop 1.x..... I also had a pair of 16 MB video cards for that cx - the RAM couldn't be used for video, but PS could use it as a RAM disk.

[HawgGuy]

I will really date myself. I paid $900 in 1985 to add a 10 MB drive to my KayPro II (replacing one of the 5 1/4 inch floppy drives). I then had to compile a custom version of the operating system (CP/M) to recognize the drive.

[davephan]

Originally Posted by HawgGuy

I will really date myself. I paid $900 in 1985 to add a 10 MB drive to my KayPro II (replacing one of the 5 1/4 inch floppy drives). I then had to compile a custom version of the operating system (CP/M) to recognize the drive.

HawgGuy,

At least you had a hard drive back then. I started with a Commodore VIC 20, then later upgraded to a Commdore 64. Years later I finally could afford a 386 after they had been on the market for awhile...

Dave

[doc]

Originally Posted by davephan

HawgGuy,

At least you had a hard drive back then. I started with a Commodore VIC 20, then later upgraded to a Commdore 64. Years later I finally could afford a 386 after they had been on the market for awhile...

Dave

My brother had a sharp mz80k (upgraded to 48k ram) and I was soooo jealous.

You could switch it on, put the tape in, start to load basic, then make a cup of tea, and if you were lucky, it was ready to use.

Our local CB club had a bingo night every week, and the computer chose the numbers - WOW!

It took him 2 years to save up for it, paper rounds don't pay very well

[garyellis]

My first PC drive was a 10 MB model for one of the original IBM PCs. When I was one of the first developers inside IBM to get the x286 based PC with a 20 MB drive runninx Xenix I thought I'd died and gone to heaven.

lol....I was part of the group in IBM Boca Raton, Fl. that released the original first PC ... an 8086 model...

I remember buying the first ones we could get off the line..They were $5000 and we got them for $3000 since we were IBM employees.

I remember making a decision of color monitor or monochrome...I chose monochrome, because I could not imagine why I would need a color monitor.

Memories,

Gary Ellis

[Humanzee]

Originally Posted by flavius

Especially if it's WD.

Speaking from your own experiences I suppose? I've been running only WD drives with SageTV since I started it up in 2003 Not a single drive failure and I have 7 different disks spinning 24/7 and have packed up and moved probably 4 times since then. But now that I have said that one of them will probably fail tonight. I'll have to find my usb backup and re-sync all my family photos.

[Jesse]

At least you had a hard drive back then. I started with a Commodore VIC 20, then later upgraded to a Commdore 64. Years later I finally could afford a 386 after they had been on the market for awhile...

Dave

My first machine was a C64. I bought it at a toy store (no kidding) in South Miami. A few years later I bought an Amiga 3000 from a buddy. Man that thing was hot s*** in its day.

J

[sandor]

Originally Posted by Humanzee

Speaking from your own experiences I suppose? I've been running only WD drives with SageTV since I started it up in 2003 Not a single drive failure and I have 7 different disks spinning 24/7 and have packed up and moved probably 4 times since then. But now that I have said that one of them will probably fail tonight. I'll have to find my usb backup and re-sync all my family photos.

i have to agree - i never seem to have one drive brand fail more than any other (apart from the 60 GB DeathStars of yore - they were horrid!)

I typically buy what ever is cheapest, and whether it is Seagate, WD, Hitatchi (IBM) or Maxtor, they all have about the same life span. Maxtors still frighten me a *little* bit because they always seem to run so much hotter than anything else, but they dont ever seem to fail anymore often.