Samsung has announced a low-cost 1 Terabyte HD, that will be available to consumers in June, at an affordable price of $199. With the growing desire for multimedia content, larger hard drives have become important to those of us who need such storage. Samsung has promised to keep specs that will be up to par with consumer needs, and this new drive will use 50% less power than it's other 1TB models.With the burden of managing HD's today, Samsung could really take the lead with such a drive. What do you think? Let's hear your comments, Neowin.
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cause in general... you usually get the best/biggest hdd's at around that 100 dollar price area... cause once you go past that the price starts to skyrocket and hard drive size dont get all that much bigger.
in other words... you get the best bang for the buck around the 100 dollar area for a hard drive in general.
exactly! which depending on how important the DATA your storing on the hard drive is..... if it's real important (i.e. cant afford to lose) i would strongly recommend AT LEAST leaving a copy of the data on a hard drive along with 2 backups on DVD+R's (preferably TY (Taiyo Yuden) 8x cert DVD+R and another copy on Verbatim DVD+R 16x cert (MCC 004) media..... and in general burn @ 8x speed (especially if your burner is semi-recent (2005 ish or newer) 8x burn speed is a pretty safe bet)
and if your wallet is bill gates-ish then do what i said above but have another copy on another hard drive (i.e. 2 hard drives and 2 dvd+r media like i was saying)
if you do that it's HIGHLY UNLIKELY that your data would ever be lost.
but at the very least ... i would keep a copy of your data on hard drive and quality media like either TY or Verbatim (DVD+R) .... in general the TY DVD+R 8x Certified media is considered one of the best dvd recordables you can buy right now. (im basing most of what i said on info from club.cdfreaks.com which are pretty much experts in dvd burning etc in general)
sounds good. I think it is time for 1TB drives for media PC's
Honestly though, I'm not interested in cheap Harddrives with huge capacities, unless those cheap drives are also have amazing performance.
Also, I've kind of gone past my capacity requirements. I have 3 160GB drives in RAID 0 and a 250GB for backup, and I constantly have at least 200GB free. 1TB seems a bit excessive. But I guess with HD content becoming more and more popular, then maybe I'll need some more room.
Last edited by WICKO on 26 May 2008 - 02:28
Prefer Seagate HDDs.
I would say all three of those brands are quality lol. Seagate, WD, and Samsung are all excellent quality.
Prefer Seagate HDDs.
every company is one time bad and next good.
i had bad experience with Seagate.
no one is perfect.
Lern 2 spel, Looser!
People will eventually jump onto the 1TB bandwagon sooner or later. I mean, the same thing probably happened with 100gb hdd and then 200gb hdd and then 500gb hdds. The same old people paranoid about losing their precious "data".
A USB 2 INTERFACE BLUERAY DISK BURNER at a sensible price !
Ideas on a postcard. You can catch me at Saturn or Neptune most days. I'll collect it from there heheh
As posted above, people adding larger hard drivers is going to be inevitable, I have 1.5tb in my PC now.
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?sk...f=10&loc=01
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