Downloaded content like music & video comes to mind. Backup will be #2 use for Blue-ray or HDDVD burners when the become cheap enough.
Certainly not often or even in frequent 1 shot full backup situation, but needs some degree of backup none the less. If my 100GB+ of Mp3's died I'd loose both time & money replacing them if not for some degree of backups. So I incremental backup to DVD-R every few months, full once a year or so. In a few years households will have multi-TB NAS setups (likely with built in high capacity discs burners or removable &/or spare HDD's for backups) simply because "files" is how all content is going to end up and inaccessibility will be king. MP3 & Video's like TV shows/movies which are just easier to enjoy when stored centrally and accessed from menus rather than digging out a CD or DVD disc. Storage is cheap, buy a few 1TB drives, use one for main storage, another for online backups, a 3rd for offline backups, 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 > >> -----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 > > > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
