That's the wrong question to ask....
A better question to ask is if there any home users who want 1TB of HD
space for whatever reason at an affordable price. The answer to that
question is yes.
One doesn't buy a backup app for the size of data...one buys HDs to
store stuff, even nonessential stuff. Ripped movie farms, home video, etc.
Greg Sevart wrote:
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
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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
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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.
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