CrunchGear

Why would anyone want a single drive for gaming or video playback? Any admin worth his weight in geldings knows that RAID 0 gives you way better performance. I’d much rather buy 4 (well actually 8 cause I’m one of those wierdo’s who loves raid 10) 250gb drives, have the same size plus the faster read and write of raid 0.

But Ryan….
Its a terabyte
thats cool

Forgot where you stored that file. Don’t worry just give an hour to search though the 1TB. I know that if I save something on such a big hard drive it would be like a black hole. There would be no return for the file. On the other hand it would be useful to store multiple operating systems on the hard drive (say vista and xp).

Interesting that Hitachi is coming out with these now where Seagate just announced their upcoming 1TB drives a couple of days ago. Seems like there is still something like a race going on in the upper limit hard-drive size market.

And to my previous fellow commenters I can only say: You can never have enough space :-) Sure, a Raid system is nice, but then you’ll just use 2 of those 1TB platters for your RAID0 instead of those two 500GB Western Digital drives I just bought (grrrrrrr…). Especially when building a PVR/DVR system your uncompressed HDTV video stream will fill such a Terabyte monster up faster than people fill Times Square in New York on New Year’s Eve. And that’s not even 1080p. Plus all those BluRay and HD-DVD backups, and the 4782 photos your cousin Eddie took at his wedding with his brandnew 20 Megapixel camera. Oh my, I better order two of those…

Sascha,

Part of the benefit of Raid 0 is increased read/wrtie performance. the more disks you have the better it performs so I would still go with lots of smaller drives to make one big drive instead of a two big drives to make one huge drive. Especially with something like a DVR for HDTV, I’d want a cage full of drives with a stripe instead of a two big drives with a stripe, that might be the SQL admin in me talking but the performance differences are surprisingly visible.

Ryan,

Have fun when one of those drives dies and you lose all your data.

/gg