Comments on: Seagate launches terabyte storage for the home

Company says $899 drive is perfect for small businesses and tech-savvy home users who want more space.

[juchestyle]

Bull$%^&

Humm, if you mirror two 500 gig drives that means you only have 500 gigs of storage, NOT A TERABYTE.

This is the kind of marketing crap that turns users off of companies. These companies think only care about selling sub-standard products that are barely better than the last version of crap they unloaded on us before we realized the level of crap they were selling.

Respectfully,

[demner]

Read the article

It reads "This configuration can be set up for Raid 1 (disk mirroring)"

The keyword here is "CAN". It's optional or you can have 1TB of storage. Geez...

Regardfully,

[flimflambeta]

hah

Perhaps if you actually read the article instead of be an ass about it and skim, you'd read they said you can set it up for raid 1 mirroring. It is truely one Terabyte of storage, unless you failed in math class not knowing that 500+500=1000.

[juchestyle]

Bull$%^&

Humm, if you mirror two 500 gig drives that means you only have 500 gigs of storage, NOT A TERABYTE.

This is the kind of marketing crap that turns users off of companies. These companies think only care about selling sub-standard products that are barely better than the last version of crap they unloaded on us before we realized the level of crap they were selling.

Respectfully,

[demner]

Read the article

It reads "This configuration can be set up for Raid 1 (disk mirroring)"

The keyword here is "CAN". It's optional or you can have 1TB of storage. Geez...

Regardfully,

[flimflambeta]

hah

Perhaps if you actually read the article instead of be an ass about it and skim, you'd read they said you can set it up for raid 1 mirroring. It is truely one Terabyte of storage, unless you failed in math class not knowing that 500+500=1000.

[Earl Benser]

USB2? Yeah, sure....

Looks like a slow 500 GB Raid 1 which is already available on the
market in components using FireWire bridges. Seagate is still
looking for a technology achievement (ever since 1995). Buying
Maxtor was no help

[Andrew J Glina]

Maxtor

I am not in a good mood with Maxtor/Seagate. Last month after a few months of usage my One Touch drive got confused (I believe it lost the partician table) and the only way to fix it was by formatting it. No reason for it either; the drive was left in all the time. I lost a days work too. (I do full daily backups.)

[Earl Benser]

USB2? Yeah, sure....

Looks like a slow 500 GB Raid 1 which is already available on the
market in components using FireWire bridges. Seagate is still
looking for a technology achievement (ever since 1995). Buying
Maxtor was no help

[Andrew J Glina]

Maxtor

I am not in a good mood with Maxtor/Seagate. Last month after a few months of usage my One Touch drive got confused (I believe it lost the partician table) and the only way to fix it was by formatting it. No reason for it either; the drive was left in all the time. I lost a days work too. (I do full daily backups.)

Hmmm... Let's see...

3 250GB HDs (from Woot next time they offer them): $150.
Basic PC (case & motherboard, but no HDs or monitor -- must be able to boot from USB port): ~$150.
Compact flash card, + PC card to use it as a drive: ~$50.

FreeNAS operating system (from Freenas.org): Free

Total for a 750GB (500GB effective) RAID5 system: $350 (Just over 1/3 what Seagate is charging)

[Gasaraki]

Ok...

You forgot a cpu. What's going to run your free nas, your hamsters?

[Gasaraki]

Ok...

What about a cpu or ram? What going to run your free nas, your hamsters?

Hmmm... Let's see...

3 250GB HDs (from Woot next time they offer them): $150.
Basic PC (case & motherboard, but no HDs or monitor -- must be able to boot from USB port): ~$150.
Compact flash card, + PC card to use it as a drive: ~$50.

FreeNAS operating system (from Freenas.org): Free

Total for a 750GB (500GB effective) RAID5 system: $350 (Just over 1/3 what Seagate is charging)

[Gasaraki]

Ok...

You forgot a cpu. What's going to run your free nas, your hamsters?

[Gasaraki]

Ok...

What about a cpu or ram? What going to run your free nas, your hamsters?

[Earl Benser]

BFD....

.... Nothing new. Uses slow USB2. Been available via components
for over a year. Seagate loses again.

[Earl Benser]

BFD....

.... Nothing new. Uses slow USB2. Been available via components
for over a year. Seagate loses again.

[ThinkingInBinary]

Gigabit is Gigabit!

"To keep things moving, the company has what it calls a new high-speed Gigabit Ethernet connection."

***? What else would they call it? This suggests that either "Gigabit Ethernet" was made up by the company, or that it's not really "high speed". That's a dumb thing to say. It has Gigabit Ethernet. Period. It should be "To keep things moving, Seagate gave it a Gigabit Ethernet connection."

[ThinkingInBinary]

Gigabit is Gigabit!

"To keep things moving, the company has what it calls a new high-speed Gigabit Ethernet connection."

***? What else would they call it? This suggests that either "Gigabit Ethernet" was made up by the company, or that it's not really "high speed". That's a dumb thing to say. It has Gigabit Ethernet. Period. It should be "To keep things moving, Seagate gave it a Gigabit Ethernet connection."

[spruceman]

Seagate? or Maxtor?

So "Seagate" announces--- hey great! a 5-year warranty. Then I see it's their Maxtor line -- so it's the one-year warranty--kinda like the difference between Black & Decker's "DeWalt" vs their plain "Black & Decker" lines of power tools. Seldom I've had a Maxtor drive last more than 2 or 3 years. That puts the kibbosh on buying that drive that for me. C'mon guys, make it a quality drive...even if it costs more, How 'bout something that at least meets the reqs for a drive in a Tivo[tm] rather than for a proverbial grandmom who drives the thing only to church on Sundays. Let me have something at really can go 100,000 hrs without failure.

[spruceman]

Seagate? or Maxtor?

So "Seagate" announces--- hey great! a 5-year warranty. Then I see it's their Maxtor line -- so it's the one-year warranty--kinda like the difference between Black & Decker's "DeWalt" vs their plain "Black & Decker" lines of power tools. Seldom I've had a Maxtor drive last more than 2 or 3 years. That puts the kibbosh on buying that drive that for me. C'mon guys, make it a quality drive...even if it costs more, How 'bout something that at least meets the reqs for a drive in a Tivo[tm] rather than for a proverbial grandmom who drives the thing only to church on Sundays. Let me have something at really can go 100,000 hrs without failure.