For a change, the "rumors* were right. Hitachi was suppose to beat Seagate to the punch, and they did.

This is better though: estimated street price was $400, and Newegg is selling it for $399. It's starting out with a price cut, as they are cheaper than when the 750 MBs came out! I like it!

1TB hdd here (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822145141)

my question is only this, how stable are they??

think i might hold out for a couple months and pick up one around christmas

Buy one for me for my Christmas too. :D

that'll be cheap in a couple of months we all know how cheap storage is becoming in really short spaces of time. Thing is. I am not feeling safe with the idea of being able to lose up to 1 tera of data. I"ld have to do some serious partitioning to try n at least save some partitions.

i wonder if one day i will have 1 TB of anime

I never thought of that, I wonder if I already have that... haw many dvds would make a terabyte??

That would be around 256 DVD's approximately.

PeAcE.

that'll be cheap in a couple of months we all know how cheap storage is becoming in really short spaces of time. Thing is. I am not feeling safe with the idea of being able to lose up to 1 tera of data. I"ld have to do some serious partitioning to try n at least save some partitions.

thats exactly wat I'm saying dude, how stable is this shit

All hardrives have a lifespan.

most being 4-5-6 years.


Hitachi is an excellent company, so my guess is that they'd AT LEAST have their product fall between that range of reliability.

Either way - its teh money that I'd have to pay for that - only to have it die that would scare me.
A LOOONG warranty would ... help.
But then again there is data loss (which, I guess, can be avoided to a certain extent).

My aim rite now is to achieve 500gb worth of anime. :D That doesn't sound too hard. Seeing as tho I'm recollecting.




P.S. I have Mighty Morphin Power Randgers if ne 1 wants some copies. *WE NEED MEGAZORD POWER NOW!!!!!* (lol)

So...is there a use for this besides video editing/homebased server? Can't see the average end user EVER needing this much space. And if you want that much, just get a RAID rather than a single drive.

Hah, they've come a long way, haven't they? I wouldn't mind one of these for my psp.

My aim rite now is to achieve 500gb worth of anime. :D That doesn't sound too hard. Seeing as tho I'm recollecting.
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I just counted... Im over 500Gb of anime. :woot1:

In my case... 16 pages... each page has 8 slots (4 front, 4 back)... Ive filled up one case already.. each dvd is approx 4.7Gb.

16 x 8 x 4.7 = 601.6Gb... and most of my DVDs are filled to capacity, plus Im into my second case already.

Cool... Im half way to a Terabyte already. :D

Bow before me inferior collecters!!! :mwahaha:

Who else full up them case? Or have over 128 DVDs?
Actually Im surprised is only that amount of DVDs i have... me know some of you must have more DVDs... unless they not all full, and not all just anime.

case one filled. into second case. i believe we have the same cases.. as its you i saw with it and made a copy. I'm also short on a few anime lent out and uncollected (burnt but not picked up) but that would mean i'm over the 500Gb mark as well.

Numbers. I have DUAL copies of all my anime. Meaning I have over 250 DVDs. I don't collect stuff that isn't DUAL AUDIO with SOFT SUBS unless it can't be helped. And if I have something that is not, then I find it in the format I want (MKV/OGM/MP4) thereafter, then I get it. Else I get the DVDs and rip it myself.

PeAcE.

Exactly... the amount of space our animes take up is nothing.. cause animes vary depending on what format you get em in.

It should just depend on the amount of Anime titles you got going on... not the space in which they inhabit. :p

So I no really care that I have halfway to a Terabyte of anime... space is endless. :D

SPACE - THE FINAL FRONTIER....THESE ARE THE VOYAGES OF THE STARSHIP ENTERPRISE......oops. Wrong show. hehe.

PeAcE.

Oh great! Way to make me feel inadequate about my 80GB hard drive. Still, most hard drives are maxed out by music and video, and since I don't store much on my hard drive, I'm not even using 1/4 of it. So I doubt I'd have little practical need for it anyway.