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Seagate reveals 10TB Barracuda HDD
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article published on 20 July, 2016
It's likely overkill for 99 percent of PC owners, but Seagate has revealed a new 10TB Barracuda Pro HDD this week, giving users a massive amount of storage for their computing needs.
The drive is standard 3.5-inch, 7200RPM so it won't offer too much in terms of features besides capacity, but it is still interesting to see how far we have come.
"The Barracuda family has a rich history ... [ read the full article ]
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20. July 2016 @ 11:32 |
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I miss the days of loading up games from my Atari cassette player!
We thought we were in heaven when we finally had 40MB HDD's and Colorado 120 tape drives. Even though the 40MB drive was about $500 at the time. ROFL
Wonder where we'll be 10-20 years from today?? Hope I'm still around to see it!
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20. July 2016 @ 12:20 |
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Originally posted by skeil909:
I miss the days of loading up games from my Atari cassette player!
We thought we were in heaven when we finally had 40MB HDD's and Colorado 120 tape drives. Even though the 40MB drive was about $500 at the time. ROFL
Wonder where we'll be 10-20 years from today?? Hope I'm still around to see it!
Yes, I remember not so long ago getting 64GB HDDs and thinking that would last forever. Insane.
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20. July 2016 @ 20:57 |
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I still remember my 210MB hard drive, trimming wallpapers and screensavers and unused DLL's out of Windows 95 so I could fit two or three games on the computer at once. When it died and I had an excuse to upgrade to a 2GB model (made by Maxtor, now owned by Seagate)...I was in heaven! Now I have 17TB of external drives sitting at a friend's house as an offsite backup, plus many GB of documents synced with Mega...heck, my phone has a 128GB MIcroSD card in it.
That doesn't change the fact that I want a 5D crystal burner...more is still better! I'm so glad that hard drive companies are past their flood induced stagnation/price fixing stage and are actually making bigger drives and lowering the price on the smaller ones.
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ivymike
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20. July 2016 @ 22:13 |
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Just imagine losing 10 terabytes of data, sheesh.
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20. July 2016 @ 22:29 |
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Originally posted by ivymike:
Just imagine losing 10 terabytes of data, sheesh.
It really isn't any different than losing 10GB of data...in fact the most valuable data is often very small, while drives like this tend to either get filled with ripped movies or (once the price comes down) get thrown into redundant RAID arrays for servers. Personally I go with offsite backups...RAID is nice for preventing loss from a dead drive, but there is still fire, power spikes, etc...only what I am working on at the current time is on RAID arrays, as it is hard to keep that backed up remotely when my internet isn't fiber.
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hearme0
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22. July 2016 @ 14:25 |
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Originally posted by KillerBug:
Originally posted by ivymike:
Just imagine losing 10 terabytes of data, sheesh.
It really isn't any different than losing 10GB of data...in fact the most valuable data is often very small, while drives like this tend to either get filled with ripped movies or (once the price comes down) get thrown into redundant RAID arrays for servers. Personally I go with offsite backups...RAID is nice for preventing loss from a dead drive, but there is still fire, power spikes, etc...only what I am working on at the current time is on RAID arrays, as it is hard to keep that backed up remotely when my internet isn't fiber.
It's WAY different. As a network engineer, I regularly span data across multiple partitions to alleviate a single solitary loss.
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22. July 2016 @ 19:34 |
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Originally posted by hearme0:
Originally posted by KillerBug:
Originally posted by ivymike:
Just imagine losing 10 terabytes of data, sheesh.
It really isn't any different than losing 10GB of data...in fact the most valuable data is often very small, while drives like this tend to either get filled with ripped movies or (once the price comes down) get thrown into redundant RAID arrays for servers. Personally I go with offsite backups...RAID is nice for preventing loss from a dead drive, but there is still fire, power spikes, etc...only what I am working on at the current time is on RAID arrays, as it is hard to keep that backed up remotely when my internet isn't fiber.
It's WAY different. As a network engineer, I regularly span data across multiple partitions to alleviate a single solitary loss.
Losing one drive of an array made up of 10GB drives is different from losing one drive of an array made up of 10TB drives??? Other than rebuild time, how so?
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26. July 2016 @ 22:12 |
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Got a 382mb hard drive here 200mm (8")long,140mm (5 1/2") wide,70mm (2-3/4")deep & weighs approx 6kg it's a NEC 1989,it's pretty much the size of two internal pc dvd drives stuck togeather.Couldn't find any pictures to post however what i did find is even bigger again,a vintage IBM the size of a small suit case,i suggest wearing safety boot before viewing if you're so inclined,tech sure has come a frak'n long way
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBjoWMA5d84
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27. July 2016 @ 22:06 |
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I still remember finding "bigfoot" drives in ordinary PC's on a somewhat regular basis for a while, some of those double height 3.5" hard drives too...and I have an old IBM collecting dust that has a hard drive as part of an ISA card...I think it is a whole 20MB, and it is almost as long as my GTX970. Of course that old IBM "portable" has two 5.25" floppy drives as well.
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