300 GB Hard Drives!

**Spunky** · 06-26-2003, 07:53 AM

Defragging prolly will take forever

**red-sweater** · 06-26-2003, 07:55 AM

yeah , but if you got like a kickass machine with a gig of Ram then it should do it really fast

**AaronM** · 06-26-2003, 07:57 AM

Originally posted by spunky1
Defragging prolly will take forever

It does on the 200's.

5400rpm sucks ass...Fuck them on size over speed.

Wester Digital Special Edition drives are up to 250gb's now at 7200rpm with an 8mb buffer. Perfect for video editing and storage.

**AaronM** · 06-26-2003, 07:59 AM

Originally posted by red-sweater
yeah , but if you got like a kickass machine with a gig of Ram then it should do it really fast

My video editing machine is 2.8ghz P4 with 1 gig or ram and 500gb's of drive space. It is slow at defraging.

**iroc409** · 06-26-2003, 08:00 AM

yeah, but there's a big problem with this. most hardware won't support it, and windows doesn't particularly like anything over 128gb. there are workarounds, but it'n not something you can usually just plop in and let it sing.

**AaronM** · 06-26-2003, 08:01 AM

Originally posted by iroc409
yeah, but there's a big problem with this. most hardware won't support it, and windows doesn't particularly like anything over 128gb. there are workarounds, but it'n not something you can usually just plop in and let it sing.

Did you miss this part?

"An ATA-133 PCI adapter card comes with the drive."

**eroswebmaster** · 06-26-2003, 08:01 AM

Originally posted by red-sweater
yeah , but if you got like a kickass machine with a gig of Ram then it should do it really fast

Yep running 2 120's raided here with 1.5 gigs of ram, it takes less time to defrag this system than it did my old 19 gig hard drive back in the day

**red-sweater** · 06-26-2003, 08:03 AM

well it shouldnt take longer if you partitioned it

lets say like into 3 parts on 100gb/each

**iroc409** · 06-26-2003, 08:06 AM

Originally posted by AaronM

Did you miss this part?

"An ATA-133 PCI adapter card comes with the drive."

ah, yes i did. depending on the software that comes with the drive though, that still doesn't *necessarily* work. there's been a lot of issue with external usb/firewire drive boxes that have upgraded chipsets for larger drives, and windows still clips them. so really it's not just a hardware issue.

something like the promise sx4000 would most likely fix this, and since maxtor uses promise for thier cards, it would probably work with that.

**Lensman** · 06-26-2003, 08:08 AM

We tested a Serial ATA drive last week, wicked fast, but it does get hot so make sure you have some fans in those babies.

**AaronM** · 06-26-2003, 08:09 AM

The cards that come with the larger WD drives install as a scsi adapter and the drives work very fast.

**red-sweater** · 06-26-2003, 08:15 AM

damn! this must be good news for media webhosting companys

**liquidmoe** · 06-26-2003, 09:03 AM

Large ATA Harddrives = eventual death.

My 100GB drive just died this month after about a year or so. Check out the warranty on that 300 gigger probably wont be more than 2 years, if its even that long. Why not make something a bit smaller but more stable and 5400 is a joke.

**loverboy** · 06-26-2003, 09:06 AM

i have an external 200GB Maxtor USB2 hard disk beside me.

**keyDet79** · 06-26-2003, 09:33 AM

Just take 2 160 gig drives. Less headache, probably also cheaper and faster.

**Bex** · 06-26-2003, 09:42 AM

Originally posted by eroswebmaster

Yep running 2 120's raided here with 1.5 gigs of ram, it takes less time to defrag this system than it did my old 19 gig hard drive back in the day

Nice!

**Lane** · 06-26-2003, 09:43 AM

i wanna see them come up with 1TB drives. thats gonna be fun.

harddisk technology is getting really old. we need static memory, with much faster access times.

300 GB Hard Drives!

300 GB Hard Drives!

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