1 terabyte portable harddrive

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  • strobi
    Confirmed User
    • Nov 2002
    • 7383

    #1

    1 terabyte portable harddrive




    I want one!

    http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?id=10118

    $1,199.00

    (kinda expensive)
  • DVTimes
    xxx
    • Jun 2003
    • 31650

    #2
    See:

    http://www.gofuckyourself.com/showth...hreadid=253284
    XXX

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    • dunefield
      www.barely18movies.com
      • Feb 2003
      • 10920

      #3
      looks quite BIG as well...

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      • strobi
        Confirmed User
        • Nov 2002
        • 7383

        #4
        Originally posted by allanuk
        See:

        http://www.gofuckyourself.com/showth...hreadid=253284
        hadn't seen your post... sorry

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        • The Click
          Confirmed User
          • Apr 2003
          • 1685

          #5
          Originally posted by dunefield
          looks quite BIG as well...
          That's what all the girls say at first

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          • Darkystar
            Confirmed User
            • Jan 2002
            • 273

            #6
            looks like it's slow as shit

            USB 2.0: up to 34MB/s

            i connect regular hard disks through USB 2.0 and the speed is more than 500mbs

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            • strobi
              Confirmed User
              • Nov 2002
              • 7383

              #7
              Originally posted by Darkystar
              looks like it's slow as shit

              USB 2.0: up to 34MB/s

              i connect regular hard disks through USB 2.0 and the speed is more than 500mbs
              is 34MB/s slow for a harddrive.? sounds fast to me.. but I'm in no means a pc geek.

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              • jmk
                Confirmed User
                • Sep 2002
                • 5391

                #8
                Wow that's a lot of space .. but the price is ok ... considering the average price per GB is $1

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                • jmk
                  Confirmed User
                  • Sep 2002
                  • 5391

                  #9
                  Originally posted by Darkystar
                  looks like it's slow as shit

                  USB 2.0: up to 34MB/s

                  i connect regular hard disks through USB 2.0 and the speed is more than 500mbs
                  you probably mean Mbits/sec?

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                  • Alex Xe

                    #10
                    If you do not play in games, do not download video and mp3...so much spaces do not need....I have 60 gb, but use only 30.

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                    • Amputate Your Head
                      There can be only one
                      • Aug 2001
                      • 39075

                      #11
                      The problems:

                      if (when) it dies, you've not only lost a $1200 drive that you now have to replace, but you've also lost a TB of data, that you now have to replace.

                      This was what clinched my decision to stick with 250gb drives and smaller. It's much easier to keep adding smaller drives as necessary than it is to bank everything on one drive.
                      SIG TOO BIG

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                      • pradaboy
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                        • Dec 2003
                        • 12931

                        #12
                        expensive??? 1200 bucks for a terabyte harddisk is not expensive man... you can store your entire life on that thing
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                        • TweetyBird
                          Confirmed User
                          • Feb 2004
                          • 8532

                          #13
                          hehe, indeed
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                          • Amputate Your Head
                            There can be only one
                            • Aug 2001
                            • 39075

                            #14
                            Originally posted by pradaboy
                            expensive??? 1200 bucks for a terabyte harddisk is not expensive man... you can store your entire life on that thing
                            it's expensive in the way I just outlined. Because it's not "if" it's gonna die, it's "when".

                            actual price cost is pretty much the same as stacking smaller drives. I got a box of 250gb drives coming at $240 each.... just under a buck a gig. But when one of those fail, I'm not out $1200 in one shot.
                            SIG TOO BIG

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                            • Bex
                              Confirmed User
                              • Feb 2003
                              • 2382

                              #15
                              Originally posted by Amputate Your Head


                              it's expensive in the way I just outlined. Because it's not "if" it's gonna die, it's "when".

                              actual price cost is pretty much the same as stacking smaller drives. I got a box of 250gb drives coming at $240 each.... just under a buck a gig. But when one of those fail, I'm not out $1200 in one shot.
                              Plus if you raid those drives, you can store a lot and only replace a chunk as needed (like you said, it is a matter of when a drive will fail), and you still have all your data in tact.


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                              • Amputate Your Head
                                There can be only one
                                • Aug 2001
                                • 39075

                                #16
                                Originally posted by Bex


                                Plus if you raid those drives, you can store a lot and only replace a chunk as needed (like you said, it is a matter of when a drive will fail), and you still have all your data in tact.
                                yep, exactly....

                                I'm not on Raid, I use a firewire farm.... because I normally only write these drives once and just read from them after that. But same principle applies. I have backup duplicates of every drive in the farm. If one dies, I pop in a blank, restore from the backup, and I'm back in business an hour later.
                                SIG TOO BIG

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                                • Amputate Your Head
                                  There can be only one
                                  • Aug 2001
                                  • 39075

                                  #17
                                  only way I will use TB drives is if they give better incentive than stacking smaller ones. Like, cut the price to about .30 cents a gig.
                                  SIG TOO BIG

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                                  • Lykos
                                    Too lazy to set a custom title
                                    • Apr 2003
                                    • 31027

                                    #18
                                    Me too

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