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Mac Forum / General / Hardware / January 2007Biggest Hard Drive Available today?
Biggest Hard Drive Available today? What's the Biggest Hard Drive Available today for between $400 and $700? Must be completely dependable, and use FIREWIRE 400. Can buy drive and enclosure separately if needed. Looking for: SEAGATE HITACHI-IBM LACIE WESTERN DIGITAL Thanks for you help! > Biggest Hard Drive Available today? > > What's the Biggest Hard Drive Available today for between $400 and $700? The largest single drive mechanism is currently 750GB. But drives can be combined to function as a single drive, and this often turns out to be cheaper per Gigabyte than a single big drive. > Must be completely dependable, and use FIREWIRE 400. No such thing as _completely_ dependable. A pair of drives in a RAID 0 configuration will be slightly less dependable than a single drive or any of the other RAID configurations. > Can buy drive and enclosure separately if needed. Just make sure that the type of drive you get (ATA or SATA) matches the enclosure's requirements. Many large drives are now SATA, but most FireWire enclosures are still made for ATA. Get an enclosure that either has a fan or ventilation holes: sealed enclosures, even the metal ones, don't provide enough cooling for extended drive operation. FireWire depot <http://www.fwdepot.com/> has a large selection of FireWire enclosures, especially those made for multiple drives. > Looking for: > > SEAGATE > HITACHI-IBM > LACIE > WESTERN DIGITAL Check PriceGrabber <http://www.pricegrabber.com/>. For drives, hard or optical, I especially like ZipZoomFly <http://www.zipzoomfly.com/>.  SignaturePosted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com > Biggest Hard Drive Available today? > > What's the Biggest Hard Drive Available today for between $400 and $700? > > Must be completely dependable, and use FIREWIRE 400. No drive is completely dependable, so your question does not have an answer. SignatureRandy Howard (2reply remove FOOBAR) "The power of accurate observation is called cynicism by those who have not got it." - George Bernard Shaw >Biggest Hard Drive Available today? > >What's the Biggest Hard Drive Available today for between $400 and $700? There was talk of somebody making a 5.25" hard drive again. I doubt if you could buy bigger than 5.25". >Must be completely dependable, and use FIREWIRE 400. > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] >LACIE >WESTERN DIGITAL They probably only make 5.25". >Thanks for you help! There used to be 8" and larger hard drives. Barry ===== Home page http://members.iinet.net.au/~barry.og > >Biggest Hard Drive Available today? > > > >What's the Biggest Hard Drive Available today for between $400 and $700? > > There was talk of somebody making a 5.25" hard drive again. I doubt if you > could buy bigger than 5.25". Funny how "largest" can mean two so diferent things and that we tend to forget the literal sense... I presume the OP means "biggest capacity", not "biggest physical measurements". But thanks for the reminder of the literal. Signature/Jon For contact info, run the following in Terminal: Mail: echo 36199371860304980107073482417748002696458P|dc Skype: echo 139576319600233690471689738P|dc > SEAGATE > HITACHI-IBM Seagate and Hitachi are so much more reliable than others that I don't think other brands are worth dealing with. Seagate usually has the best data density and the highest capacity drive is usually a seagate. Note: the more platters, the more breakdowns. Do you really want to have the biggest drive in town if that means having a 5-platter drive? > LACIE They don't make drives, they repackage other peoples stuff. > WESTERN DIGITAL Better off buying Seagate or Hitachi. > Biggest Hard Drive Available today? > [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > >>>> at http://www.TitanNews.com <<<< > -=Every Newsgroup - Anonymous, UNCENSORED, BROADBAND Downloads=- Why so expensive? See that the 750Gb and 1 TeraByte Seagate Drives are starting well below $300.00 at my local Costco and on the net. Newegg? Pricewatch.com? I prefer to purchase my own cases for about $30 and prefer the USB (480Mbs) plus FW(400Mbs) Airlink 101 dual use. Have three. If you really want reliability, you format to UDF, EXT3, or ReiserFS. Or, run DiskWarrior every few weeks. I prefer the former formats, that don't lose data or get confused in the drive index... |
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