1000....yes one thousand Gig Hard Drive....is it a good buy?

I would love to have all that space

http://www.amazon.com/1000GB-Raid-0-Triple-Interface/dp/B000JME63G/ref=sr_1_2/103-5651865-0016646?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1177197228&sr=8-2

I would love to have all that space

http://www.amazon.com/1000GB-Raid-0-Triple-Interface/dp/B000JME63G/ref=sr_1_2/103-5651865-0016646?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1177197228&sr=8-2

wildcat2000

That's a RAID 0 setup and not a real terrabyte...

Here is a real one... 

[QUOTE="wildcat2000"]

I would love to have all that space

http://www.amazon.com/1000GB-Raid-0-Triple-Interface/dp/B000JME63G/ref=sr_1_2/103-5651865-0016646?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1177197228&sr=8-2

LordEC911

That's a RAID 0 setup and not a real terrabyte...

Here is a real one... 

OH...so is that the one to get then? Is that one really 1000 or 750....didn't quit understand the description

[QUOTE="LordEC911"][QUOTE="wildcat2000"]

I would love to have all that space

http://www.amazon.com/1000GB-Raid-0-Triple-Interface/dp/B000JME63G/ref=sr_1_2/103-5651865-0016646?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1177197228&sr=8-2

wildcat2000

That's a RAID 0 setup and not a real terrabyte...

Here is a real one...

OH...so is that the one to get then? Is that one really 1000 or 750....didn't quit understand the description

I doubt he would've posted that if it wasnt 1TB :P

The article just states that theyre introducing a 1TB HDD "after" their release of a 750mb HDD last year. So what it means is, 750mb HDD has been release last year, so theyre introducing a 1TB HDD this year (yes my paragraph was going in circles :roll: )

LOL What a rip off!  Thats just 2, 500 gig drives in RAID 0 for $675?!?!

Just buy 2 of these http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152052 for $129 and do it yourself for $260!! 

And if you wanted them in an external case you could get one of those for like $50 - $75.

[QUOTE="wildcat2000"][QUOTE="LordEC911"][QUOTE="wildcat2000"]

I would love to have all that space

http://www.amazon.com/1000GB-Raid-0-Triple-Interface/dp/B000JME63G/ref=sr_1_2/103-5651865-0016646?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1177197228&sr=8-2

NasHHHbk

That's a RAID 0 setup and not a real terrabyte...

Here is a real one...

OH...so is that the one to get then? Is that one really 1000 or 750....didn't quit understand the description

I doubt he would've posted that if it wasnt 1TB :P

The article just states that theyre introducing a 1TB HDD "after" their release of a 750mb HDD last year. So what it means is, 750mb HDD has been release last year, so theyre introducing a 1TB HDD this year (yes my paragraph was going in circles :roll: )

OH,thanks...so 1 terebyte is like 1000 gigs? Iv heard about terebytes but I'vn ever really understood what it is

OH,thanks...so 1 terebyte is like 1000 gigs? Iv heard about terebytes but I'vn ever really understood what it is

wildcat2000

Correct. After terabyte, it would be petabyte, but thats something no one should worry anytime soon LOL!

The 1TB drives are all Hitachis right now with Seagate supposedly being the next to put one out. They aren't really cost effective though. They are slower than the 500gb and cost more than twice as much.nosferatu

You might want to read the review.

The 1Tb Hitachi is very close to Raptor performance, with about 7x the storage capacity. That means it is a bit better then a 500gb.

LOL What a rip off! Thats just 2, 500 gig drives in RAID 0 for $675?!?!

Just buy 2 of these http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152052 for $129 and do it yourself for $260!!

And if you wanted them in an external case you could get one of those for like $50 - $75.basersx

I've seen biggerRandom__Guy

That doesn't sound right by itself 

[QUOTE="nosferatu"]The 1TB drives are all Hitachis right now with Seagate supposedly being the next to put one out. They aren't really cost effective though. They are slower than the 500gb and cost more than twice as much.LordEC911

You might want to read the review.

The 1Tb Hitachi is very close to Raptor performance, with about 7x the storage capacity. That means it is a bit better then a 500gb.

I've read more than just the one review on the drive. What I said, that a pair of 500gb drives is still the better choice by a tiny margin, was the general consensus amongst them.

I've seen biggerRandom__Guy

that's what she said 

well actually a 1 terabyte drive is not 1000 gigs.its more like 975 gigs since hard drive companies use bits instead of bytes to determine the size.if you want a drive that is 1 terabyte wait until 1250 or maybe 1120 drives come out.KandyKornMan

He's right.  Multiply the alleged space by .93 to find the real amount of GB (1024 MB not 1000 MB).  I believe some HD companies are getting sued over this false advertising, though they do have it in the fine print... 

Why on earth would you want 1TB of storage?

I don't understand why you would need 1000gb of storage unless its a server. adam0926

Nosferatu:

The RAID 0 setups are going to be faster than a single drive, but will also be inherently less reliable. RAID 0 means that you have the same amount of data striped across two drives so performance is improved, but if either drive fails you lose everything on both drives.

KandyKornMan:

The difference between drive sizes as reported by the manufacturer as opposed to how it's reported on by the OS is due to a difference of decimal and binary bytes (not between bits and bytes, which are of the same scale.

-Byshop

[QUOTE="Random__Guy"]I've seen biggerInfinite-Zr0

That doesn't sound right by itself 

lol

OH,thanks...so 1 terebyte is like 1000 gigs? Iv heard about terebytes but I'vn ever really understood what it is

wildcat2000

1 terabyte is 1,024 gigabytes. It's just like KB -> MB -> GB.  TB is just the next one on the list. 

these are only for those who have HD porn on their PCsTheDarthvader

i have lots of that luckily i dont have to keep it for to long seeing as people dl it like crazy and its easy to seed 

i don't know why HDs are getting so big, i don't even use 60gb

so, if for the same price of a bigger and slower HD, you can get a smaller and faster, go to the 2nd one.

i don't know why HDs are getting so big, i don't even use 60gb

so, if for the same price of a bigger and slower HD, you can get a smaller and faster, go to the 2nd one.

marlonsm

i have about 20 games installed right now and about 15HD movies, the games are anywhere from 3gb - 8gb each and the movies can range from 4-25gb each

i also have about 6000 songs, many other apps,and all the other standard stuff takes alot of space

oh and i just did a format about a week ago..it adds up fast 

1TB is a bit much, you'll never use that much anyway.BounceDK

and you know what pple use it for? 

[QUOTE="BounceDK"]1TB is a bit much, you'll never use that much anyway.TheDarthvader

and you know what pple use it for? 

1000 gb isnt much, i could fill it easily, i have a tv tuner card : technisat skystar 2 :D guaranteed to get filled.

Any statement along the lines of "you'll never use that much" is ridiculous. Intel thought it likely that we'd never need more than 640kilobytes for applications (NOT Bill Gates as this is often misattributed to) but now most games require 1 gigabyte of RAM only a dozen or so years later. The FAT16 file system only allowed for 2 gigabyte partitions because it at the time that was all that was practically needed at the time. That's to limitations in LBA, a limit of 127gig applied to early versions of Windows XP.

Every time there's a limit, we surpass it (and usually sooner than we thought we would). While you might not use 1TB, I already posted that I have -more- data than that in my house spread across several computers.

-Byshop