Monster IBM Drives!

[DJ]

Check it out <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5083199,00.html?chkpt=zdhpnews01">Here</a>

DJ

[Novdid]

400GB

[Jammrock]

I'll take 2 x 400 GB, 15000 RPM, SCSI 320 drives please!



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Athlon 650
256 MB PC133 CAS3 from Crucial
87 GB storage from WD & IBM
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SB Live! the original full retail, still going strong
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[xortam]

I heard about this on the financial news Monday morning. Ruth's pixie dust will increase storage density five fold!!! Since then, every one of my engineering friends have been bringing this up with me in discussions. It sure is getting a lot of people's interest!

[Novdid]

Well...it got mine.

[DJ]

Well, with a 400GB drive who needs DVDRW?

DJ

[The PIT]

How we're going to back that up??
We'll need at least two drives.

[xortam]

I've become convinced that HDD is the current best solution for backup. We ran into that problem in trying to backup HDTV recordings which are quite large. You have to have them on disk to play them back (most tape systems are too slow, I think DLT will work) and it takes way too long to move them from tape to disk for later playback. You also need a jukebox to store such large amounts of data which adds to the expense of the media. The cost of HDD is getting so low that its become an inexpensive and fast solution that can address the capacity requirements of storage backup.

[rugger]

I am with xortam. Where I work, we simply compress and store our files onto a harddrive mounted in a bracket, on a dedicated backup computer (pentium 90). We can use the slower, cheaper drives. Our nightly backups are in excess of 10gig and we use 30gig drives at the moment. There is always more than one backup of our work.

In my experience, hard drives are far more reliable than tapes, and you can get several of them for the price of a decent tape drive.

[Guyver]

I can't wait to see what effect this will have on a large (2-3 terrabyte) EMC Symmetrix unit that currently uses 18/36gb drives.

As far as tapes go, the LTO (utltrium), and Super/Ultra DLT both weighing in at ~100GB are the only things large/fast enough to saturate an LVD channel.

[Paddy]

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="2">Ruth's pixie dust will increase storage density five fold!!! </font>

Damn! Those babies are gonna fly!

[SCompRacer]

"400GB ought to be enough for anybody."

[Paddy]

Imagine how much that would cost!

[Technoid]

When we actualy reaches those figures, the prices will be in the same range as the current.

[Wombat]

oooo, even cheaper to rip DVD's to my HD.