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A terabyte drive is a kind of watershed mark, such as the four-minute mile, $100-a-barrel oil or unlimited long distance ...Read the full article
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Sancre Tor from Dexter, United States writes: 1 TB sure is a lot of drive. I have 2 drives that are 500 GB each and while it's great to be able to stuff tons of files and programs onto those drives, it also used to be time-consuming to schedule defrags for those huge drives regularly. I installed an automatic background defragmenter and it has been smooth sailing since then. I can imagine those 1 TB drives will suffer from the same problem.
Additionally, the users better have a sound data protection plan in place when dealing with so much data. Regular backups and file recovery software installed should do the trick. Losing nearly 1 TB worth of files would be devastating!- Posted 22/05/08 at 10:35 AM EDT | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment
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h w from Waterlogged, Canada writes: At $300 this drive is not a high bang for buck. As Jack stated, you might be better off with two drives, say 500 GB drives - at qty. 1 pricing, about $80 ea, or for $160 for the pair. Seagate, WD and Hitachi's 1 TB drives much cheaper (and still 7200rpm, 32 MB cache). Respectively priced at $200, $200 and $250. The sweetest pricing spot is still around the under $100/500GB mark, but going to a 750 GB may give you more space, redundant drives (insurance against spindle failures) without paying excessive premium for 1 TB drives. As for space wastage, using an archaic disk format like NTFS defaults to cluster sizes of 4 KB, thereby wasting more disk space, in addition to the 12.5% overhead by the MFT on entire volume size. Try Linux!
Also note that drive manufacturers tend to quote disk sizes in powers of 10, not powers of 2. Thus 1 TB is 1000 GB (not 1024), and 1 GB is 1000 KB (not 1024). New IEC units address this as kibi-, mebi-, gibi, and tebibytes for the proper power of 2 alternates. However Microsoft still reports drive/volume sizes in powers of 2 thereby showing a number much lower than expected.- Posted 22/05/08 at 11:46 AM EDT | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment
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h w from Waterlogged, Canada writes: Woops, that should read "1GB is 1000 MB" not KB. 1 MB is of course 1000KB in base 10 marketing speak, and not 1024. Then again, RAM is another story, where 1 MB = 2^20 bytes. (not the case for flash drives, memory cards etc. which are often measured like hard drives).
- Posted 22/05/08 at 7:16 PM EDT | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment
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Glenn F from Canada writes: To think - nary just 15 years ago, I was transporting things on a 1.44 MB diskette. Not even 10 years ago, I was astounded by a 650MB CD.
- Posted 26/05/08 at 4:32 PM EDT | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment
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