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Western Digital had a 1TB drive but released it with 5400RPM spin speed for low power consumption. Now they have the 7,200RPM version as the Caviar Black.

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It trades places with the 640GB drive off and on so I would say those are tied for the 2nd fastest WD drive behind the VelociRaptor. 1TB space. Not as quiet as the 640GB drive. $190 on newegg I believe.
 
How far away are we from 10,000rpm standard?

Noise with HDD is a big issue for me which is why I went for a 500gb Samsung spinpoint with some kind of noise reduction on it, I think I'd rather have two of those running in RAID 0 than a 1TB drive.

Also, I noticed this the other day, OCZ have brought out a whole new range of high capacity solid state drives which are looking great (but still expensive). http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?groupid=701&catid=14&sortby=nameAsc&subid=910&mfrid=
 
I don't think 10,000 rpm will replace 7,200 for normal desktop drives. The kind of performance increase that it brings doesn't show up much on normal desktop usage. More workstation and server type loads. They are a little louder, hotter and I bet the quality of the motor would need to be higher to not fail quicker. (raptor drives are considered enterprise drives so they have the 5yr warranty.)

Plus, most people don't show an interest in 10k rpm drives. And for SSD, I know they kick ass with reading data. But as far as I know normal drives and raptors kick their but at writing the data.
 
Still happy with my Spinpoint F1. As for storeage all you need are a couple of 5k drives in raid.
 
Still happy with my Spinpoint F1. As for storeage all you need are a couple of 5k drives in raid.
Yeah, just a few cheap drives is all ya need for storage. Although no raid is backup.
 
Is this the one you were talking about? If so, its only $140 and has free shipping now.

EDIT: Oh, nevermind. That one was variable speed. What does that mean?

The one you were talking about is only $180 though.
 
Yeah, just a few cheap drives is all ya need for storage. Although no raid is backup.

Well if you want to get technical. No backup is ever going to be a good backup if you only have a single copy of that backup. Throw in some parity drives and you're looking a bit prettier though imo.
 
Well if you want to get technical. No backup is ever going to be a good backup if you only have a single copy of that backup. Throw in some parity drives and you're looking a bit prettier though imo.
What I was getting at with "Although no raid is backup" is that no matter how awesome your raid is, it's usually all on the same computer (PSU failure could take it). If it's on a different computer then it probably is in the same room/floor (flood) or even building (fire). Keep going depending on how nitpicky or safe you want your data to be.

To me, basic backup just means at least one copy on an unused external drive which isn't how I would consider RAID. I don't have anything this valuable but even at different locations.
 
If I compress all my CD's to lossy MP3's, I can reclaim 1Terabyte from my hard drives.

It's so boring and time consuming, and the process hogs my computer though. 1 CD at a time. I've got them in FLAC format BTW.
 
1 TB of lossless compressed music...wow
I have a lot of my CDs in flac but they take up less than 100GBs.
 
I just guessed and I'm wrong. I've only got about 100 GB's of FLACs on my drives also.

But I do have about 1000 CD's that I haven't put on my computer yet. Don't really have a clue how much space that will take, but I definitely want to put them on there eventually. I don't use CD's anymore, except in rare circumstances.


I was at my Dad's and found a storage container with hundreds and hundreds of my old CD's that I forgot about, in addition to the hundreds I have here.

Don't forget I'm in my 30's. I had been buying CD's in large quantities ever since they were invented.
 
Flac is like 40-50% compression I think. So just take a CD capacity (650MB) and cut it in half to average Flac size. But most music doesn't take up the full CD so it would be an over estimation.
1000 CDs in flac would add another ~32.5 GB.
 
You're right. Not sure why I moved the decimal over at all. No need to do math. The conversion (divide 1000) from MB to GB cancels out the x1000 cds multiplication.
 
WD 640 FTW!!!!111one I had to replace the Raptor's in raid0 there grinding drove me nuts.
 
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