The very idea of a terabyte of hard drive space available on my PC makes me salivate. I'm already thinking how long it would take to fill that up. I think by that time the first exabyte drive will come out.

The article below takes the latest Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 for a spin and tests its performance, noise levels, and power consumption against 18 other drives to find out how it stacks up.

http://www.techreport.com/reviews/2007q3/h...00/index.x?pg=1

As for myself, I think I'll wait until the price comes down a bit, and I also think it's a good idea to let many other people test these drives out over extended periods of time. I will also wait for Seagate to come out with their version, because the Seagate drive will have a 5 years warranty, but this one has only 3 year warranty.
Also, after reading around a bit more, some people seem to suggest that Hitachi drives have earned a nickname as "Deathstars" for dying so much. No comment there.

It's a good comparative exploration of recent high-capacity drives, with the smart money being on the Caviar SE16 (750GB).

This post has been edited by dserban: Aug 14 2007, 08:53 AM

I almost bought an external terabyte drive the other day, but only because it was on sale for $300 which I figured was a pretty good price. I didn't end up getting it but mostly just because I forgot about it until the sale passed haha. Basically I think having one might be nice but I'm not huge into video editing or anything of that nature so having a massive hard drive just isn't necessary for me. As long as I'm willing to backup stuff I accumulate once in awhile I don't have any problems with drive space with the 200 or so gigs I have now.

I'm probably going to be getting a new computer within the next year so I wouldn't be surprised, however, if I put a raptor type high speed drive and a mega secondary drive in it, such as a terabyte which will likely be well review and stress tested by then.

1TB? Not in the near future, nor do I see myself even using that much space. It'll take me a couple years to fill 1TB. It took me 5 years to fill 80GB (pure data).

xboxrulz

Yeah, I don't really need so much space, because I am not working with such big data, nor do I edit video, music files or etc. I don't even keep DVD movies or other movies in my hard drive, I prefer to burn a CD/DVD.. so ~120 to 250GB is the way for me, the main thing for me is that it would be stable, very stable.

my 320GB external drive is serving me well, and I have hardly filled it up at all! I don;t think I will be needing a TB drive anytime soon!

Maybe the only reason why I WOULD buy the hard drive is to look cool with the cutting edge tech, but its really useless at the moment.

xboxrulz

I used to think bigger the better. That was until I had one of those bad boys died on me and it took forever to restore from backup. Also when I format I usually just leave it on overnight because it takes so long.

Make sure you use the fast format version when formatting the drive. It's so much faster.

xboxrulz

We are in the BIG jump again, like from Kb to Mb, Mb to GB and now: GB to Tera.
I will buy a "Teradisk" when the needs and money lets me

ABOUT SIZE, CAPACITY, SPEED and more
At this time, I'm working in a Celeron 1Ghz, 512mb ram, 40GB HD, Nvidia Geforce2 64mb. And is enough to me. Web development doesn't needs a monster CPU/GPU/HD. But every 6 months, there is something new, smaller, stronger, faster, and the entropy is growing: more machines with very different hardware and software. I have to work in standards of usability, browsers, coding. Then, all this is about criteria and needs.

AGAIN: If you need one truck, buy one a do your work

Blessings!

I think companies should focus more on memory instead of storage since the speed of memory still is creating bottlenecks for the CPU.

xboxrulz