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Cobbydaler

17-10-2007 00:05

4 TB drive on horizon...

Hitachi have announced an advance in recording technology that could lead to 4TB capacity 3.5" drives & 1 TB 2.5" drives by 2009/2011...

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homealone

17-10-2007 00:13

Re: 4 TB drive on horizon...

it sounds great - but would you trust your data to untried technology??

Cobbydaler

17-10-2007 07:45

Re: 4 TB drive on horizon...

Well, hopefully by 2009/2011 somebody will have tried it... ;)

slowcoach

17-10-2007 09:08

Re: 4 TB drive on horizon...

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Originally Posted by homealone (Post 34416131)

it sounds great - but would you trust your data to untried technology??

Would you trust your data to an Hitachi drive? Click of death free with every drive.

Graham M

17-10-2007 10:35

Re: 4 TB drive on horizon...

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Originally Posted by slowcoach (Post 34416200)

Would you trust your data to an Hitachi drive? Click of death free with every drive.

To be honest, they're pretty good these days - and click of death was a term relating to Zip drives :)

monkey2468

17-10-2007 10:39

Re: 4 TB drive on horizon...

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zeph (Post 34416243)

To be honest, they're pretty good these days - and click of death was a term relating to Zip drives :)

...or the old IBM Deskstar drives (now Hitachi?)

TheNorm

17-10-2007 13:01

Re: 4 TB drive on horizon...

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Originally Posted by Cobbydaler (Post 34416124)

...an advance in recording technology ...

Giant magnetoresistance - two guys (a Frenchman and a German) were just awarded the Nobel prize for discovering this. Talk about cutting edge technology!

dilli-theclaw

17-10-2007 13:05

Re: 4 TB drive on horizon...

Quote:

Originally Posted by monkey2468 (Post 34416247)

...or the old IBM Deskstar drives (now Hitachi?)

HHHmmm -The Deathstar you mean ;)

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In any case - I don't think I'd trust that amount of data on any drive.

monkey2468

17-10-2007 14:05

Re: 4 TB drive on horizon...

Not unless you can afford a pair and mirror them.

slowcoach

18-10-2007 03:20

Re: 4 TB drive on horizon...

I had 4 of the IBM drives, you were just waiting for the click of death and you didn't have to wait long. I didn't know at the time they were made by Hitachi otherwise I would never have bought them, I'd had too many bad experiences with their other consumer electronics previously.

Pedro1

18-10-2007 05:57

Re: 4 TB drive on horizon...

Quote:

Originally Posted by monkey2468 (Post 34416343)

Not unless you can afford a pair and mirror them.

Yip you are right. Just to feel safe.

tweetypie/8

21-10-2007 01:16

Re: 4 TB drive on horizon...

Quote:

Originally Posted by homealone (Post 34416131)

it sounds great - but would you trust your data to untried technology??

not on your nelly :(

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