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300 TB Seagate Drive

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I came across this cool article so I figured I'd share. Basically, Seagate has announced that they are aiming to release a 300 TB (terabit, not terabyte) drive by 2010. Thats equal to about 37.5 terabytes... which is still massive:blink: Especially considering currently their biggest drive is 750GB. Sounds great to hold large 4k files out of the RedOne. It will be interesting to see what the price will be at when it's released.

The link: http://www.itwire.com/content/view/8350/52/
 
DorkmanScott said:
If there's one manufacturer with whom I would never, ever trust nearly 40TB of critical data, it is Seagate. I have never owned a Seagate drive that didn't fail on me.
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My experience has been (somewhat) different. I had a large scsi drive (Western Digiatal or Maxtor... been awhile ago) crash on me. I've lost a few Deskstar smaller drives over the years, and I had one Seagate give up a little over a year ago when doing a military wipe of the data. It was fine until I decided to increase block size after a couple of passes, to speed up the process.

That was before Seagate went to perpendicular recording. From what I've read, they have fewer platters than the other brands of the same size and so, coupled with the perpendicular recording plus a large cache, means they are probably mechanically more efficient than other brands. I've used nothing but Seagate since they've gone perpendicular and haven't had any problem with them.

edit: article in first post was written in Jan '07 and things may have changed somewhat.
 
the only real crash I had was on a maxtor drive, the other maxtor crashed because I dropped the computer to the desk in an outburst of fury...
 
its NOT 300TB but 300Tb! Strange :nerd:
byte vs bits
 
DorkmanScott said:
If there's one manufacturer with whom I would never, ever trust nearly 40TB of critical data, it is Seagate. I have never owned a Seagate drive that didn't fail on me.
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Dude - are You paid by IBM/Hitachi by any chance? I would like to know how many HDD's have gone through Your hands...

I have well over 2000+ crosses on my gun with various brands and this is my experience (in order of reliability - first is the best):

1. Seagate
2. Matrox (which is now using Seagate's drives anyway...)
3. Western Digital
4. Toshiba
5. Hitachi/IBM (failure rate over 50% within 1st year!)

Of course HDDs do depend on good quality power source and Seagate is relatively sensitive to this - so make sure all Your HHD's are on UPS, or at least surge protector/stabilizer... If Your power is low quality with frequent peaks or power cuts - it could explain why You had so much problems with Seagate...

After 15+ years of experience with HDDs (amongst other things) my personal choice for A/V applications is Seagate Barracuda which delivers great value for money and outstanding reliability...
 
Peter Majtan said:
Dude - are You paid by IBM/Hitachi by any chance? I would like to know how many HDD's have gone through Your hands...

I have well over 2000+ crosses on my gun with various brands and this is my experience (in order of reliability - first is the best):

1. Seagate
2. Matrox (which is now using Seagate's drives anyway...)
3. Western Digital
4. Toshiba
5. Hitachi/IBM (failure rate over 50% within 1st year!)

Of course HDDs do depend on good quality power source and Seagate is relatively sensitive to this - so make sure all Your HHD's are on UPS, or at least surge protector/stabilizer... If Your power is low quality with frequent peaks or power cuts - it could explain why You had so much problems with Seagate...

After 15+ years of experience with HDDs (amongst other things) my personal choice for A/V applications is Seagate Barracuda which delivers great value for money and outstanding reliability...
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now this looks like you have been paid by seagate. lol
 
I find that each manufacturer goes through periods where particular batches of particular drives have excessively high failure rates.

That said, after 15 years as a professional in the computer industry with another 18 years of personal computer work, I would have to agree 100% with Peter's list.
 
Joseph Hutson said:
I have NOT had a good time with Lacie Drives. Those are ridiculous(in my opinion).
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LaCie is only box inside which are probably HDD from different manufacturers, but you pay more
 
Joseph Hutson said:
I have NOT had a good time with Lacie Drives. Those are ridiculous(in my opinion).
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They used to be great when they started (Seagate inside), but now they really suck (Hitachi inside). I still have several cases which I now use with new Seagate drives, but it is becoming harder to buy good PATA drives. Now I get new aluminum enclosures from Maxx (Entertainment) Digital with the Barracudas inside...
 
As another person with 20 years of pc support, I'd second Peter's ratings as well. Although Seagate did seem to have a dip in quality after they purchased Connor; not so after purchasing Maxtor.

They all fail to some degree though, so back it up or lose it is your best approach.

Personnaly I've tended to favor Maxtor drives, because when they fail, they tend to fail within the warranty period. Before merging with Seagate, they used to have the easiest return policies and upgrade options. Tech support is still not too bad with Seagate, just more hoops to jump through. I just had to return a Maxtor 1.5TB drive last month, not because the drive failed, but because the security chip failed and locked me out of the drive.

Google released an interesting drive failure white paper last year. While they did not rate the drives by manufacturer, they did find that mean failure rates are much higher than the manufacurers claim. They also found that constantly running drives in hot rooms are not necessarily more prone to failure.

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