| 2008/8/4-10 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:50776 Activity:nil | 8/4 I went to Fry's for the first time in ages and was surprised to
see a 1T Seagate HD on sale. I'm still using my 250G and it's
only 60% full. What the heck do people put on their HD these
days, porn? I can't imagine why anyone would want to buy a
1T drive for personal use.
\_ HDTV.
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| 2007/5/17-19 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:46676 Activity:nil | 5/17 My new 750G Seagate HD shows only 698G available. WHAT THE FUCK??
\_ 750G = 750*10^9 bytes. Your OS is probably measuring in 2^30 bytes.
See GiB vs GB
\_ Also, disk drive manufacturers advertise "raw" storage, while
your O/S measures usable storage. You lose quite a bit to
disk label information, metadata and other various things.
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| 2007/1/7-16 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:45525 Activity:nil | 1/7 Looking to get an external HD for my mom (not yermom). Fry's has an
ACOMDATA 250GB USB 2.0 for $70 after rebate, but I see only review on
teh Intarweb (and it's suspiciously glowing). Any of you fine sodans
have experience with this product or its ilk? TIA. --erikred
\_ Seagate has 5 year warranty, I think. However their reliability
has gone down the drain in the past few years. I have a WD250
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| 2005/12/22-23 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:41113 Activity:moderate | 12/21 What's the quietest, most reliable 300-500GB HD out there these
days? I'm mainly concerned with reliability/sound/price per GB
to store lots of media stuff, and I'm not too concerned about
performance. Also a related question, when do you guys think
1T drives will come out, 2008? 2009?
\_ in my experience, seagate drives tend to be quieter than others
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| 2005/5/9-11 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:37579 Activity:kinda low | 5/8 Poll. If you even had to return a HD, what was your experience like?
\_ Hitachi: Regular RMA, No advanced RMA, test suite sucks
\_ WD: Had 2 consecutive failures (same model) in 6 months, the RMA
website is really good, has tracking and advanced RMA. Advanced RMA
requires you putting in credit card number so that if you don't
return the defective drive in 30 days they'll charge you. It's not
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| 2005/5/5-9 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:37545 Activity:low | 5/5 I have a Hitachi/IBM Travelstar 80G HD that occasionally makes loud
clicking noise unrelated to head seek. Today while moving a 150M file
I started hearing that clicking noise again, and 1 min later my
computer freezes. I rebooted, tried copying other files and it's fine
and went back to the same file, and it freezes again. Help?
\_ Download the diagnostic from the http://hgst.com web site.
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| 2005/5/2-4 [Computer/HW/CPU] UID:37454 Activity:moderate | 5/2 I'm that noise intolerant guy who wanted to make my PC noiseless.
Here is my update. In addition to changing my power supply to
Seasonic Tornado (which is nearly inaudible at around 20db), today,
I just received my brand new Papst 80X80mmcase fan. At $18.95 each,
it costs 3X more and weighs 2X more than the other fans. However,
it is only 12db and just as efficient as the other fans. It's
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| 2005/4/20-21 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:37275 Activity:low | 4/19 I went to Fry's today and saw a 400GB HD by Seagate, with 5 years
warranty!!! That is just amazing. By the way, what is the current MB
limitation on size? I remember back in the 90s I had to get special
HD card to go above 4G, and then in the late 90s a special card to
go above 80G. I'm just wondering what the current limitation is.
\_ Why would there be a limitation? Granted, I always buy SCSI.
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| 2004/6/16 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:30833 Activity:insanely high | 6/16 I have about 500 Gigs of stuff that I need to backup on a monthly
basis. I anticipate that our content will grow to 1000Gig in the
next year or two. Should I just get 2-4 big HDs or should I get
tape backup device? Opinions? -newbie admin
\_ Do you need to back up the entire 500g each month or just an
initial cut and a small amount of data changing each month? 500g
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