Comments on: Seagate boosts drives to 750GB

Barracuda 7200.10 line, now shipping, features platters that store data in vertical columns.

[bobby_brady]

Now were talking! Good for video

not a bad price either.

[grey_eminence]

Drive Storage Limit Just about Reached

another couple of years and there will be
no BOOSTING Drive Storage. Super-Paramagnetic Limit will be reached.

There better be something colossal in the wings coming online.

[nicmart]

Famous Last Words

How many times has this prediction been proven wrong? Did you
forsee perpendicular technology?

[rklrkl]

OK, how do you back this up?

Apart from the "obvious" solution of buying 2 of the 750GB drives and copying all your data from one to the other regularly (e.g. rsync or whatever), how do you "properly" back up 750GB of data if you're a home user?

As far as I know, this far exceeds the capacity of any single-tape or single-optical-disc out there, so unless you've got a tape or disc jukebox (which is generally outside the price range affordable by a home user), you're stuffed...

[booboo1243]

Siize is large enough --

We really don't need bigger disk drives as much as we need faster and more reliable drives.

[nicmart]

Price?

Is the home user who cannot afford backup going to buy a 750 gig
drive? Of course the person who needs this drive will also buy
another for backup, or rely on another solution, such as a dual
enclosure RAID for backup. You can buy two 300 GB drives for
under $100 each with rebate, and a dual RAID enclosure for a bit
over $100. That only yields 600 GBs, but that shows how cheap
storage can be.

[dwerth]

If you want it, you'll buy it

Get two or more and RAID 'em. VXA tape autoloader for backup at under $2,000 also works to backup 800GB to 1.6TB (compressed). But why not just get four of the little puppies, go RAID-5 and be the first geek on the block with 2.1 TB of ready access storage. But, you still might want that tape backup just because things that move, break.

[W2Kuser]

redneck retard "750 pickup trucks" analogies

You would think the audience of C|NET would be sophisticated enough to skip the infantile analogies for data storage; most readers are probably familiar with the concept of a "gigabyte".

But apparently the author is aiming this story squarely at the "Redneck Retard" demographic and thus felt compelled to use the most stupid analogy ever employed to describe HD storage space...

[intrntmn]

Seagate

I've always been impressed with Seagate since the days when
SCSI was king.

It's good to see that a company I choose over others is pushing
the bar. Hopefully they'll fix the issues with maxtor (whom I had
no faith in after several failing drives).

As for storage technology in general, they'll take it as far as they
go then they'll switch to something else.

[Amazingant]

wow...

it's nice to know i'm not the only one that thinks maxtor sucks and that seagate is the best thing since the computer mouse(ok, maybe not that great). But I have 10+ year old HDDs from seagate that have daily use and have no disk errors yet, and I had a 1 month old maxtor drive that died on me...