Drives larger than 1TB?

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Whitebread

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Advances in storage capacity for commercial drives have been slow recently. Does anyone know when the next increase in capacity is supposed to happen? I'm in need of a 2tb array with redundancy but I don't have space for 4 drives.
 
Whitebread said:
Advances in storage capacity for commercial drives have been slow recently. Does anyone know when the next increase in capacity is supposed to happen? I'm in need of a 2tb array with redundancy but I don't have space for 4 drives.
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Don't have space for four drives? What is it, a shuttle or something?

Anyways, 3x1TB drives in R5 yields 1.8TB usable space. I would expect to see 1.25TB drives on the the market before Christmas. That would be 2.27TB usable space.
 
I would be interesting to know. I could always use bigger drives. Less energy used overall.
 
Dew said:
Don't have space for four drives? What is it, a shuttle or something?

Anyways, 3x1TB drives in R5 yields 1.8TB usable space. I would expect to see 1.25TB drives on the the market before Christmas. That would be 2.27TB usable space.
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The chassis I have has space for 5 drives, but my motherboard is a little dated and only has 4 SATA ports. Plus, it only supports RAID 0 or RAID 1. I'd like to leave some room for expanding the array should the need arise in the future (movies and pictures take up a lot of space).

I need to get this array up and running ASAP, which realistically means June (due to my poor student status as of right now). Your prediction leaves me with 1TB drives as my largest option so I'd need to buy a RAID card to get an array of suitable size. It seems hat 3x1TB array might work.

Edit:suitable controller cards seem prohibitively expensive though........:(
 
I would be able to get away with a 1TB array and have maybe 30 gigs free space on the array. No room for extra data but at least my valuable data would have redundancy. I guess I could wait to build a new computer and just get a motherboard that has 8+ SATA ports and supports other RAID levels. I think I may do that.
 
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