so whats the biggest hd $ can buy?

[d94]

i was just thinkin about this when i rememebered that i stopped by compusa a few days ago and they had a 500gb drive there!

[austinbmxnig]

i don't know what the biggest drive is but i certainly would fill it with pr0n if i had one

[Quigsby]

Can buy a 400GB drive from Newegg.

[cooter]

400 GB

Seagate:
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=22-148-068&depa=1

Hitachi:
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=22-145-074&depa=1

[pwnt by pat]

500 - http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?product_code=316229&pfp=BROWSE

Inside should be a standard hard drive so you can mount it internally. Apple/macintosh though according to the site.

[zip22]

nope, PC too i believe

[Zac42]

current macs use SATA drives that dont care whether they are plugged into a mac or pc

[man_utd]

1.6TB
http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10551

[aeiou]

that's not a single hdd. Notice it says Raid0. still, quite nice.

[Skulemate]

... Notice it says Raid0. ...
Though I bet that's a typo... should likely read RAID5.

[JTanczos]

Plug and play with a built-in RAID 0 array for super fast speeds

Ya dont get "super fast speeds" from raid 5. Now if it said "super redundent" then maybe.

JT

[neonblingbling]

Would it be better to have, say, 2 250GB hard drives instead of one 1 500GB if space permits? Like, if one crash, you still have half of your pr0n, but if the single hugeass drive goes, it all goes. Maybe theres something I dont see...

[dark_15]

Also, the 250 gig drives will be cheaper than a single 400-500 gig drive... less density/less platters per hard drive...

[fabulouscoops]

Here's a terabyte for $1K. External, firewire or USB. They don't say whats inside.

http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10462

[zip22]

nice job reading the thread before you posted fabulouscoops

1.6TB
http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10551

[fabulouscoops]

I saw that, the 1.6 TB unit says RAID 0 array. The one I posted does not. It may still be a RAID array but I could not tell from the specs.

[JTanczos]

If you want safety get 3 200 or 250 gig drives and a decent raid 5 card. Put it on a computer you dont use for gaming. Heck, unless you get a good raid 5 card ide suggest using the computer for nothing other than a raid 5 array server.

You would loose the space of one of the drives to the error checking bits but if a drive fails you just swap it out with a new one and the card will rebuild any information that was on that drive by comparing the other drives data plus the error checking bits. That way you wouldnt loose anything if 1 drive fails. Downside is you loose everything if 2 drives fail. :( The odds of that happening at the exact same time during normal operation arnt very great. Electrical storms tho are an entirely different matter.

JT

[man_utd]

All of the big lacie drives are two 5 1/4 hdds. And if you want to turn this into something more, why don't you just ask "Which HDD has the highest platter density?" because that will give you technically the answer you are looking for.

And since when was RAID 5 super redundant? Last time I checked the only thing that was completely redundant with 2 drives was RAID 0, since RAID 5 requires atleast 3 drives...

[fabulouscoops]

And since when was RAID 5 super redundant? Last time I checked the only thing that was completely redundant with 2 drives was RAID 0, since RAID 5 requires atleast 3 drives...

I think you meant RAID 1 not RAID 0

[JTanczos]

And since when was RAID 5 super redundant? Last time I checked the only thing that was completely redundant with 2 drives was RAID 0, since RAID 5 requires atleast 3 drives...


I was showing that it does not offer any form of redundency. I added the "Super" because it said it was "Super fast". Raid 1 you are basically putting half your money in useless space. Where raid 5 you only loose 1/x the space where x = the number of drives. You will pretty much have to buy 2 TB worth of drive space to get 1TB of useable space with raid 1. You would only need 5 250gig drives or 1.25TB to get 1 TB in Raid 5.

JT