2Tb Hard drives released.

[Jonesy]

http://wdc.com/en/company/releases/PressRelease.asp?release={01D0EF49-E149-410A-A173-F872D0E6C335}

[leggy]

Wonder what speed it spins at and what seek times are like? With the size of sample libraries these days bigger hard drives are compulsory.



Rob

[dementedchord]

IntelliPower™, which fine-tunes the balance of spin speed, transfer rate and caching algorithms designed to deliver both significant power savings and solid performance

sounds like it's variable speed... wonder if it will hold up to torture??? the only drives that ever fried on me were western...

[LEX]

Wait 6 months.

There are going to be problems, as there always is.

Personally, I wouldn't go above the 1Tb drives at this point.

LEX

[Devil_07]

Personally, I wouldn't go above the 1Tb drives at this point.

I agree. Having one of those bad oscar's die fully loaded with data would suck big time.

[Sam]

I was in a shop yesterday or the day before talking to a dude who says that the failure rate of the 1tb and 1.5tb drives has been waaaaaaaay above and beyond what they are used to seeing on the 500gb and below drives....we were chatting about remote storage setups for my facilities and he was saying stick to 500gb drives in an array of raid 5 and I should sleep calm at night....any more than this would be un-neccesarry risk in his opinion....

I will just stick to what I know for now and see what the world of solid state brings to the table over the next two ears or so....hmmmm

[TAFKAT]

That has definitely been the case from the reports I have from my supplier as well.., I have steered well clear of the 1 TB HD's.

I have not been using anything above 500's in any of the systems up until now.

I have only recently moved to 640 HD's as the streaming drives on the systems, up from 500's, simply because the platter sizes being 320 GB , the 640 is identical to the 500's in numbers of platters with a little more storage. The 640's are reported to be as reliable as the 500's.

[Jonesy]

Same here, I have never bought anything bigger than 500. Reliability is bad enough at that size....

[Devil_07]

stick to 500gb drives in an array of raid 5 and I should sleep calm at night


Yes sir. I built a 5 disc RAID-5 last summer with 500GB drives, and it took the better part of almost 2 days to build and format the array of 2T. If a drive dies, it's gonna take a bit to rebuild the array, and waiting for anything bigger would leave my data in limbo for longer than I would care too.