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Popped my TB Cherry

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FrgMstr

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<sniff>I remember just "yesterday" when it took 40 of these to make a terabyte.</sniff>

Now not only do I have single drive TB storage, I went "green" too! Some of you might be wondering why I bought the "server" version of the drives. They have a cool feature on them that the desktop version does not and since I will not be using them as primary storage, I wanted to see if it provided any positive impact for me on a desktop machine. They are a tad higher in price, but we will see how they work. Got a couple of them to run a new RAID 1 array on replacing two 400GB and two 250GB drives that I had in RAID 1 arrays for storage of movies, music, and pictures. One of my 400GB drives that I have had since its release went to the big hard drive graveyard in the sky.

Active Power Management - WD GreenPower drives monitor work load and automatically invoke idle mode whenever possible to further reduce unnecessary power consumption. Drive recovery time from idle mode is less than one second, providing seamless power management between the drive and the host controller.
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I think my drives are killing the environment. :-/

Congratulations?
 
Holy crap I remember when I started one Job and they were like yea we have 1TD storage array just for users data...Now that is just amazing that one single drive can hold that amount. Sadly though that would be a real bitch to try and recover data from...

KM
 
Kyle, you get giddy for hard drives don't you? Nothing wrong with that; I just didn't know you were that type! :p
 
Great choice kyle, I am in the market for some drives myself. i prefer the higher cost server class drives for a few reasons one is its your data once its gone its gone. Second server class drives provide more features and a proven reliability for multiple years.
 
onetwenty8k said:
I think my drives are killing the environment. :-/

Congratulations?
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Yes, they are. Your carbon footprint is out of control and you should be immediately terminated......just send over all your hardware and I will make sure it gets disposed of. ;)
 
Zinn said:
Kyle, you get giddy for hard drives don't you? Nothing wrong with that; I just didn't know you were that type! :p
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Not really, but the simple fact that I have paid tens of thousands of dollars for storage over the last decade for so much less, that the magical 1TB on one disk....in MY hands was certainly a milestone. My first 800GB SAN array weighed at least 320 pounds...

maxius said:
Great choice kyle, I am in the market for some drives myself. i prefer the higher cost server class drives for a few reasons one is its your data once its gone its gone. Second server class drives provide more features and a proven reliability for multiple years.
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I will update on these drives as I am hoping they are worth the extra scratch in terms of longevity.
 
What is the "cool feature" you specifically mention that the server versions have that the desktop versions don't?
I'm not sure which feature your referring to. Is it TLER?
Is this feature worth paying a little extra for?
 
How would one of these drives compare to two Samsung Spinpoint F1 HD753UJ's in RAID0 in terms of speed?
 
Welcome to the TB club.:)

Now u have enough space to store all your pr0... errgg... I mean, all your "important" data. ;)
 
I have a desktop version of that drive in my HTPC setup. Runs very cool and with AM set to silent, it is. Even running with AM set off its still a very quiet drive.

Its not quite as fast as other 1TB drives but even running in an enclosure with no fans it is still not to hot to hold. My old Seagate 7200.10 500GB drives would get much much hotter.
 
CaptNumbNutz said:
What is the "cool feature" you specifically mention that the server versions have that the desktop versions don't?
I'm not sure which feature your referring to. Is it TLER?
Is this feature worth paying a little extra for?
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The feature that is quoted above in the OP.

AuDioFreaK39 said:
How would one of these drives compare to two Samsung Spinpoint F1 HD753UJ's in RAID0 in terms of speed?
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Dunno, TechReport has some data on the Samsung.
http://www.techreport.com/articles.x/14200

leSLIe said:
Welcome to the TB club.:)

Now u have enough space to store all your pr0... errgg... I mean, all your "important" data. ;)
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Hehe, I have one RAID 0 stripe under my desk right now that consists of 4 750GB WD Caviars. I easily get over 200MB/s writes to it. We have been recorded uncompressed HD 1080i video to the array.

THRESHIN said:
so does it fit your pr0n collection on one drive yet kyle? probably not eh?
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You know, my pr0n collection will fit just about anywhere. Way too much of it online to get locked into the same stuff. ;)
 
WD anything*YS series are worth to buy if for nothing else, then for 5 year warranty. I have 4 different 500GB WD YS drives in my 2 computers (1xWD5000YS - the hottest, 1xWD5000ABYS, 2xWD5001ABYS). They are maybe a little bit slower than (AA)KS drives, but the difference is not big.
 
These are awesome drives. I have four of the 750GB "greenpower" drives in an external bay as RAID5 on my home server. They are quiet and cool.
 
I bought 2 of the regular drives when they first come out. I just use them for backup, so the lower power draw, and less heat is a plus. It goes well with the 8 500gig hd's I have in a RAID 5, and the 4 250 gig hd's I have, and 2 320 gig hd's... :cool:
 
Killermac said:
Holy crap I remember when I started one Job and they were like yea we have 1TD storage array just for users data...Now that is just amazing that one single drive can hold that amount. Sadly though that would be a real bitch to try and recover data from...

KM
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Congrats to Kyle.I joined the Terabyte club a few months back,and just passed 2 Tbs.


Who here knows who launched the first 1 Gb drive ? I cant remember for the life of me,even though I sold one back in the day. :eek:
 
Manny Calavera said:
Congrats to Kyle.I joined the Terabyte club a few months back,and just passed 2 Tbs.


Who here knows who launched the first 1 Gb drive ? I cant remember for the life of me,even though I sold one back in the day. :eek:
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I believe it was Hitachi.
 
why haven't 1tb drives dropped in price yet? they have been out for awhile now but the price remains hgh. when are we gong to see 1.2tb drives? wd has those 320gb per platter drives....i want 4 of them for 1.2tb please...and for $250 max...then maybe 1tb drives will drop to under $200....$175 would be great. then it's upgrade time.
 
I personally went with the Seagate NS.2 I have had good luck with seagate in the past.
 
We put Seagate drives in our servers for years. I have just always been a WD fan on the destkop, espeically after all those IBM drives hosed me.
 
ryko said:
why haven't 1tb drives dropped in price yet? they have been out for awhile now but the price remains hgh. when are we gong to see 1.2tb drives? wd has those 320gb per platter drives....i want 4 of them for 1.2tb please...and for $250 max...then maybe 1tb drives will drop to under $200....$175 would be great. then it's upgrade time.
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Why haven't they dropped in price!? Dude, when they first came out they were like 400 bucks on the shelf. Now you can get one starting at ~$235, per Newegg pricing. How much cheaper do you really need it to go!?
 
I have 3 1TB Drives now, Just got the third one (my second WD Greenpower drive) last week.
Funny part is, I have one in my Fileserver and the other 2 are in my desktop :D
 
I got hosed by the 40G IBM drives as well, I replaced them with WD80JB which also hosed me, but I have never had a problem with WD raptors and seagates so far
 
ChristO said:
I got hosed by the 40G IBM drives as well, I replaced them with WD80JB which also hosed me, but I have never had a problem with WD raptors and seagates so far
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We have been running a LOT of Raptors since they first came out. All our 36GB units made it till the 150GB Raptors came out and we traded them in. No problems with the 150GB Raptors either.
 
I have 2 of these in my regular box and 4 that are being put into my server box in a raid 10. They are great drives overall.
 
Just a question, these drives are basically for anything OTHER than the main O/S right?
right now i am divided into an OS/apps drive, a Games drive, a leeching drive, and a couple of storage drives.
To get the BEST use of THIS drive which beside the OS should I not use it for (OS is a 10k raptor)
 
ssratt said:
Just a question, these drives are basically for anything OTHER than the main O/S right?
right now i am divided into an OS/apps drive, a Games drive, a leeching drive, and a couple of storage drives.
To get the BEST use of THIS drive which beside the OS should I not use it for (OS is a 10k raptor)
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Considering the drives spin themselves down when they are idle (although I have not seen the specs on this) that would SEEM to make sense. I have been playing with mine this morning and I have yet to see them unresponsive though.
 
Too bad you cant actually use 1TB on the drives :(

With these higher capacity drives, that distance between Hard drive manufacturer numbers and real computing storage umbers is getting up there.
 
Renegade_Azzy said:
Too bad you cant actually use 1TB on the drives :(

With these higher capacity drives, that distance between Hard drive manufacturer numbers and real computing storage umbers is getting up there.
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Agreed! Hopefully with 1.2TB drives, we will FINALLY have a TRUE 1TB drive... :p
 
do u guys remember a long time ago during DOS-days there were free utility commands called "park" where u can park the drive head? =P. lol. ah those 'power-saving' features of yore.
 
The biggest problem with the 1 TB drives is the price differential... You can get a 750GB for 149, yet the cheapest 1TB is 235 or thereabouts - a 86 dollar price differential for 250 GB?

149 / 750 = .198 cents per gig
235 / 1000 = .235 cents per gig

Something is WAY out of wack on that.

Didn't keep me from buying a 1TB drive for my WHS however.. sigh.... But I WON'T be buying another until A) the data corruption problem in WHS if fixed, and B) the TB drive prices come down to a more realistic level - say 175 bucks...
 
JediFonger said:
do u guys remember a long time ago during DOS-days there were free utility commands called "park" where u can park the drive head? =P. lol. ah those 'power-saving' features of yore.
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I remember running old MFM drives in a 286 and you had to manually park the heads when you shut the PC down....
 
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