Where are the Terabyte hard drive?

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Ask Tereabyte's service department.
Geez!!! Are you stoopid or what.
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Get a small mobo like ITX sized board, with enough ram and decent CPU.
Drop in a RAID card and fill it with 750GB hard drive, set them all
for RAID 0 config. Install OS, and set the RAID to be shared. You now
have a 3TB network drive, or more if you add more RAID cards and more
750GB drives.

Seems like yesterday when the only way to get a TB was to hook up 4
just-released 250GB hard drives and using Win XP Pro or RAID card.

Tomorrow: 10TB storeage for under a grand!
 
Get a small mobo like ITX sized board, with enough ram and decent CPU. [SNIP]
have a 3TB network drive, or more if you add more RAID cards and more
750GB drives.
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Not with the ITX mo-bos I've been looking at for the last while.
Not seen one (IIRC) with more than one PCI slot. They might exist
though.
 
Previously Aidan Karley said:
Get a small mobo like ITX sized board, with enough ram and decent CPU. [SNIP]
have a 3TB network drive, or more if you add more RAID cards and more
750GB drives.
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Not with the ITX mo-bos I've been looking at for the last while.
Not seen one (IIRC) with more than one PCI slot. They might exist
though.
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Well, put in an 8x SATA controller and you get 12TB with 750GB drives..

Arno
 
Not with the ITX mo-bos I've been looking at for the last while.
Not seen one (IIRC) with more than one PCI slot. They might exist
though.
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Eh had a brain fart. When I mentioned adding more, I should have
mentioned you would need mATX board (2 or 3 PCI slots) or standard ATX
board (usually 5)

ITX is still fine for only 1 RAID card
 
I wonder how long it will be until Seagate comes out with a terabyte
(or bigger) hard drive.
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Considering the hitachi T is $400 and the seagate 750 is $199, I'd
say there's no rush.
 
Considering the hitachi T is $400 and the seagate 750 is $199, I'd
say there's no rush.
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Those $400 will get a lot smaller when there's more TB drives on the
market. So unless you really need the hard drive now, I'd wait a few
months or so to see if other hard drive maker offers TB sized drive at
a more competitive price.

Or get 2 of those 750GB and a RAID card and laugh at your friend or
neighbor who paid too much for only 2/3rd of what you got.
 
Those $400 will get a lot smaller when there's more TB drives on the
market. So unless you really need the hard drive now, I'd wait a few
months or so to see if other hard drive maker offers TB sized drive at
a more competitive price.
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Or get 2 of those 750GB and a RAID card and laugh at your friend or
neighbor who paid too much for only 2/3rd of what you got.
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Just saw an ad from Samsung for their own TB drive. They claim 3
platters and low noise and energy consumption (which I believe
since Samsung was the best on energy and among the best on noise
so far).

Arno
 
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