400 GIG Harddrive!!!! ....drool

[wildfrogman]

http://forums.rojakpot.com/viewtopic.php?t=9037&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=400+harddrive
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1093&e=15&u=/pcworld/115839

Wow, this is making my harddives look really tiny in comparison! 400gig drives....wow :D

[Paradoxmaker]

Tell me about it,it really makes mine look puny. I still use a 40gb HD(the only HD in my comp) and have less than 10gb on it. so really something with that much capacity would be wasted on me.

[tom10167]

You and at least 95% of the general public. The idea is mass storage is sOOOOOOOOOO cheap, so why not?

[Xaotic]

I've seen a 3U rackmount case with 14 of these, just a little bit of storage. Good seeks and excellent speed as well. It's getting painful to think of backup strategies though.

[Hawker-rider]

I still have a laptop that I had a 3.5 gig hDD in.. it was sufficient.

THAN my wife got me as a present a rid0 setup with a backup drive for a total of 320gis... and I actually useabout 230 gigs of it..... funny huh...

[tom10167]

Originally posted by Xaotic
I've seen a 3U rackmount case with 14 of these, just a little bit of storage. Good seeks and excellent speed as well. It's getting painful to think of backup strategies though.
SAN?

[Xaotic]

FC to SATA hardware RAID bridge, but interface modules are available for multiple applications. Expensive as sin, but with a couple of these units, it'd be easy to run redundant SANs. You don't want to think about the cost, despite being cheaper than SCSI FC-AL. The tape libraries to back these things up and switches for proper redundancy get expensive in a hurry too.