Is there really 1.0TB of home user data that needs to be backed up? I run nightly backups on my machine. Out of over 4TB, there's only about 15GB that I consider essential enough to back up.
On the commercial side, the problem already exists with storage arrays of multiple TB or more. High-dollar LTO-3 autoloaders can resolve the backup situation there. Greg > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hardware- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dhs > Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 4:56 PM > To: The Hardware List > Subject: Re: [H] Here comes the terabyte hard drive > > > Nice news! But, has anybody thought about backup apps for HD's this big? > If I had a drive of 1TB, it would take me about a week to do a backup with a > dual P3-1Gz server!! LOL!! > > I'll wait for Seagate, although I've had very good service from the Hitachi replacement > drives in my server. I do like the 7Kx series of HDs from Hitachi. > Maybe 'old' IBM drives, but, they are still very strong HDs. > Best, > Duncan > > On Fri, 05 Jan 2007 14:36 , Winterlight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent: > > > > >http://news.com.com/Here+comes+the+terabyte+hard+drive/2100-1041- > 6147409.html?part=dht&tag=nl.e703 > > > >Last year, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies predicted hard-drive > >companies would announce 1 terabyte drives by the end of 2006. > >Hitachi was only off by a few days. > > > >The company said on Thursday that it will come out with a > >3.5-inch-diameter 1 terabyte drive for desktops in the first quarter, > >then follow up in the second quarter with 3.5-inch terabyte drives > >for digital video recorders, bundled with software called > >Audio-Visual Storage Manager for easier retrieval of data, and > >corporate storage systems. > > > >The Deskstar 7K1000 will cost $399 when it comes out. That comes to > >about 40 cents a gigabyte. Hitachi will also come out with a similar > >750GB drive. Rival Seagate Technology will come out with a 1 terabyte > >drive in the first half of 2007. > > > > > > > > This email scanned for Viruses and Spam by ZCloud.net
