Terrabyte at last

codprawn · 11 April 2007, 22:26

At last the first consumer hard drive has been launched that beats the 1 Terrabyte size - awesome - about £200 so not a bad price either - I remember paying that for a 120mb!!!

Ezgoing · 11 April 2007, 23:55

Where?

benc · 12 April 2007, 08:37

Just googled around, and tried a few sites I normally use, and can't find it.

I hate the idea of having a terrabyte of data on one drive.

I recently bought 4 x 250gb drives, and a hardware raid controller, and put them all in an old pc, setup in a raid 5 array with FreeNas... I much prefer the data being shared over multiple drives, with redundancy! A terrabyte of data is a lot to lose.

With the four drives, I get about 800gb of storage space, using 400gb for music, 200gb for photos, and 200gb for other stuff... Freenas has a nice web interface, was easy to setup, and runs really well! Hasnt let me down yet.

martx007 · 12 April 2007, 10:12

I'd gladly scarifice capacity for a solid state device, I don't like mechanical things, they go wrong!

ollyit · 12 April 2007, 10:36

Quote:

Originally Posted by benc

Just googled around, and tried a few sites I normally use, and can't find it.

I hate the idea of having a terrabyte of data on one drive.

I recently bought 4 x 250gb drives, and a hardware raid controller, and put them all in an old pc, setup in a raid 5 array with FreeNas... I much prefer the data being shared over multiple drives, with redundancy! A terrabyte of data is a lot to lose.

With the four drives, I get about 800gb of storage space, using 400gb for music, 200gb for photos, and 200gb for other stuff... Freenas has a nice web interface, was easy to setup, and runs really well! Hasnt let me down yet.

what kinda "OTHER" stuff ben!!?!!

benc · 12 April 2007, 10:53

Erm, backups and erm source code of current projects umm, websites... and stuff

Alex Brown · 12 April 2007, 12:28

I like the idea of 4 x 1TB drives in my Raid5 array - would certainly beat the 4 x 300GB I have now which are rapidly running out of space

If you don't like the idea of a single drive, Raid1 two together and hope they don't break at once

-Alex

Will Lankston · 12 April 2007, 21:51

What is a raid1? Or just a raid for that matter?

benc · 12 April 2007, 22:13

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID

Scroll down to the "Standard Raid Levels" section for a quick overview

Will Lankston · 12 April 2007, 22:37

Still a little confused! Are they just ways to organise hard drives or summat?

benc · 12 April 2007, 22:48

Yeah, basically its a way to spread data over multiple drives...

Raid 0 (Stripe) - Lets you make multiple hard drives into 1 large one
Raid 1 (Mirror) - Lets you write the same data to multiple hard drives. This way if one drive fails, you can still get the data on the other drives.

Raid 5 - This allows you to use 3 or more drives, and again create one large drives, or multiple smaller ones. When using Raid 5, if a drive fails, you can replace it with a good drive, and then rebuild the data onto the new drive.