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| a 4 TB drive is available now for a cool price of $350 + TAX 
»www.frys.com/product/6943757?sit···0page:p7
Nice to have a big drive, though not at this price point.
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 CylonRedPremium,MVM
join:2000-07-06
Bloom County | I can't imagine needing that much drive space.... |
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 OctaveanPremium,MVM
join:2001-03-31
New York, NY
kudos:1 | said by CylonRed:I can't imagine needing that much drive space....
I can but I can’t imagine spending that much for it. Also I would only want a drive that size for my server but since its running Windows Home Server v1 (PP3) (non-UEFI BIOS) using anything over 2TB HDD could be,…...complicated. |
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BarneyBadAssBadasses Fight For FreedomPremium
join:2004-05-07
00001 | reply to aurgathor
I can imagine it too... I have 11 Tb of disk space on my machine now... across 7 HDD's and would you beleive I'm constrained now?
No, I don't file share.... and it's not movies... code; source data and results from data analysis...
But at the price for a 4Tb drive..... above... I'd pass...
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 DC DSLThere's a reason I'm Command.Premium
join:2000-07-30
Washington, DC
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·Covad Communicat..
·Verizon Online DSL
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said by aurgathor:for a cool price of $350 + TAX
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Nice to have a big drive, though not at this price point.
You think that's a lot of coin?
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CylonRedPremium,MVM
join:2000-07-06
Bloom County | reply to BarneyBadAss
Only time I cam close to using 360 gig is when I hosted a support db on my work laptop for my testing. I still have 278 gigs unallocated on my home desktop.. 
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i could use 10 of those
i have 8 x 3tb now and have about 2tb free across them all |
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OctaveanPremium,MVM
join:2001-03-31
New York, NY
kudos:1 | reply to aurgathor
My Windows Home Server v1 (PP3) has about ~14TB of storage (6x2TB HDD + 2x1TB HDD) with about ~2.5TB free. I currently have three WD My Book Essential USB 3TB HDDs that are currently unused and one WD Elements 1.5TB USB HDD also unused. I’ve been meaning to try and use the 1.5TB HDD to backup the backup database.
I should switch to WHS 2011 so I can use larger HDDs more easily. |
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 VegasManAre We There Yet?Premium
join:2002-11-17
Schaumburg, IL | reply to aurgathor
Well with MegaUpload down and more probably to come, I don't see a use for it either.  Did I just say that?
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 kingdome74What Have You DonePremium
join:2002-03-27
Syracuse, NY
kudos:2 | reply to aurgathor
One has to wonder what that drive would have cost had not the floods hit and the consequential price hikes. And I could easily use a couple of these. |
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·Frontier Communi..
| I don't remember the exact prices, but I have 2 x 2TB drives (1 ext + 1 int) and both were under $100 by retail at the time of the purchase -- so based on that it should be around $200 - $250, with introductory pricing taken into account.
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OctaveanPremium,MVM
join:2001-03-31
New York, NY
kudos:1 | One would think a new 4TB HDD would cost about what a new 3TB HDD used to cost when they were first released:
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Today, Western Digital takes it one step further and announces availability of the internal drive as well. The Caviar Green line is now home to a 2.5TB and a 3.0TB model, priced at $189 and $239 respectively.
»www.anandtech.com/show/3981/west···reviewed
However, Seagate had their 3TB HDD out before WD so one would think that Seagate was able to charge more being first to market.
I paid about ~$109 for my WD My Book Essential USB 3.0 units so that’s about my comfort zone. |
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 koitsuPremium,MVM
join:2002-07-16
Mountain View, CA
kudos:14 | reply to aurgathor
Some data points for those not wanting to dig around, and some concern points (opinion-based of course):
1. The product listed is actually a drive + enclosure product, as found here.
2. The drive used in the product is a Hitachi Deskstar 5K4000, probably model number HDS5C4040ALE630.
3. The drive is 5400rpm, has 32MBytes cache, and supports SATA600 PHY speeds (that's "SATA revision 3") -- though the throughput
4. The drive is an "Advanced Format" drive, meaning it uses 4096-byte sectors, not 512-byte. Make sure you align your partitions.
5. The drive, given its capacity, contains 4 platters at 1TB each. This is much more acceptable than use of 5 platters (some 3TB drives when they initially came out had 5; way too risky, and IBM learned that the hard way with their old Deskstar drives back in early 2000). The point of this item is: more platters = more heads = higher chance of mechanical failure. More platters also means more heat, despite the drive being 5400rpm..
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Call me when it is a 7200 RPM drive... And has a decent cache (32Mb or bigger)
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koitsuPremium,MVM
join:2002-07-16
Mountain View, CA
kudos:14 | said by Jan Janowski:Call me when it is a 7200 RPM drive... And has a decent cache (32Mb or bigger)
The 7200rpm model is the Hitachi Deskstar 7K4000, which also happens to have 64MBytes of cache.
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sk1939
join:2010-10-23
france
kudos:6 | Available for the low low price of just $419. But wait, there's more! Call in the next 10 minutes and you can get it sometime this year. Don't wait, this is a limited time offer so act now.
It's been a long day.... |
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me1212
join:2008-11-20
Pleasant Hill, MO | reply to aurgathor
Wow $350? Thats a lot, heck its more then an external 4TB hdd »www.microcenter.com/single_produ···=0373115 I want one with all of my want, but just too much. Maybe when prices go down. |
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kingdome74What Have You DonePremium
join:2002-03-27
Syracuse, NY
kudos:2 | I would love a 7200 TB drive but that's way out of my price range. Has anyone heard how the disc manufacturers are doing about replacing what they lost in the floods and when they will be operational? |
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said by VegasMan:Well with MegaUpload down and more probably to come, I don't see a use for it either. Did I just say that?
You hit the the nail on the head.
With more and more filesharing sites going down its going to make it a lot harder for people to get free Movies, pictures, Music and software. So with that in mind in the near future there is going to not only be a much less need for TB Hard Drives but also people will not have much use for super fast download speeds and it will not even matter much anymore if an ISP has a download Cap because downloading will be really cut down with all that is happening.
I did not think this day would come so soon but the internet really is going to change very very soon!
The days of getting FREE things from the internet is going to get a lot harder very quickly. |
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 RWildThem Or UsPremium
join:2003-09-15
Cary, NC | What's a "neil"?
It's not getting things for free that's getting restricted but being able to steal stuff so easily. |
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