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500gb HD arrives

I'd love to see someone's face when their raid0 craps out with 1tb of data on it... that truly would be priceless.

On a different note, it seems like hard drives are growing faster then methods to backup all of that data. This isn't true for the enterprise, but for the consumer this could be horrible. Am I offbase or is this a reasonable worry?
 
Only at the consumer level is the drive growing faster than the backup method. THough if you want to spring for a tape system, multiple terabytes of backup could be fun.
 
The 3gb transfer rate is really:

Interface standard - SATA II - 3.0Gb/s (Serial) and ATA Ultra 133 (Parallel)

That's gigabits, so divide by 8 to get bytes. Ends up being about 357MB/sec, roughly double ATA133. However, that point is moot, as that is just the interface, the actual transfer rate to and from the platters won't be anywhere near that.

**EDIT**
Just noticed on the spec page:

Media transfer rate (max. Mbits/sec) 817

That works out to about 102MB/sec. Faster than I would have expected, but still no where near the 350+MB/sec ability of the interface. That's always bothered me that to sell HDDs, marketers will use a completely non-pertinent number, like the interface speed, vs. the actual media speed, to convince people that their HHDs are fast.
 
Well yeah, of course. I'm not ragging on the drive because it *only* does 100MB/Sec :) I'd buy one in an instant. I'm just ranting on the use of interface speeds vs. media transfer speeds as an indication of how fast a drive is for marketing purposes.
 
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