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Miscellaneous => The Lounge => Topic started by: Lead Head on 27 September 2008, 04:16

Title: Technology
Post by: Lead Head on 27 September 2008, 04:16

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148337 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148337)

1.5 Terabytes, $189, 120MB/s transfer rate. Completely nuts.

Title: Re: Technology
Post by: Aloone_Jonez on 27 September 2008, 14:04

Totally mental, it looks perfect for a server.

Title: Re: Technology
Post by: SiMuLaCrUm on 27 September 2008, 16:44

Not bad. I like Seagate personally, much more than Western Digital.

Title: Re: Technology
Post by: Lead Head on 27 September 2008, 17:03

Quote from: Aloone_Jonez on 27 September 2008, 14:04

Totally mental, it looks perfect for a server.

Yup, and lately seagate has been offering enterprise editions of their high capacity drive. $40-50 more for a supposedly much more reliable drive.

Title: Re: Technology
Post by: worker201 on 27 September 2008, 22:51

I wonder how they do that.  Probably run read/write/erase drills on it until it gets to the bottom of the bathtub curve.  If so, that means it will have a statistically shorter lifespan than a normal drive.

Title: Re: Technology
Post by: Lead Head on 28 September 2008, 03:20

Well for years seagate and western digital and many other makes have had Enterprise and Consumer drives. Lately seagate has been dropping the prices on the enterprise drives and releasing them for consumer purchase.

Title: Re: Technology
Post by: SiMuLaCrUm on 28 September 2008, 04:05

Might be that it is getting cheaper to produce them.