17-10-2007, 00:05
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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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17-10-2007, 00:13
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Re: 4 TB drive on horizon...
it sounds great - but would you trust your data to untried technology??
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17-10-2007, 07:45
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Re: 4 TB drive on horizon...
Well, hopefully by 2009/2011 somebody will have tried it... 
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17-10-2007, 09:08
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Re: 4 TB drive on horizon...
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Originally Posted by homealone
it sounds great - but would you trust your data to untried technology??
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Would you trust your data to an Hitachi drive? Click of death free with every drive.
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17-10-2007, 10:35
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Re: 4 TB drive on horizon...
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Originally Posted by slowcoach
Would you trust your data to an Hitachi drive? Click of death free with every drive.
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To be honest, they're pretty good these days - and click of death was a term relating to Zip drives 
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17-10-2007, 10:39
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Re: 4 TB drive on horizon...
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Originally Posted by Zeph
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?)
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17-10-2007, 13:01
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Re: 4 TB drive on horizon...
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Originally Posted by Cobbydaler
...an advance in recording technology ...
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Giant magnetoresistance - two guys (a Frenchman and a German) were just awarded the Nobel prize for discovering this. Talk about cutting edge technology!
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17-10-2007, 13:05
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Re: 4 TB drive on horizon...
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Originally Posted by monkey2468
...or the old IBM Deskstar drives (now Hitachi?)
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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.
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17-10-2007, 14:05
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Re: 4 TB drive on horizon...
Not unless you can afford a pair and mirror them.
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18-10-2007, 03:20
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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.
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18-10-2007, 05:57
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Re: 4 TB drive on horizon...
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Originally Posted by monkey2468
Not unless you can afford a pair and mirror them.
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Yip you are right. Just to feel safe.
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21-10-2007, 01:16
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Re: 4 TB drive on horizon...
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Originally Posted by homealone
it sounds great - but would you trust your data to untried technology??
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not on your nelly 
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