10 Terabyte hard disk

[Roger]

Was looking for latest hard drive prices today as I need a bigger hard disk for my desktop, and found this one:

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822178998&cm_re=10tb_hard_drive-_-22-178-998-_-Product

 

I can remember a time when a single 1 terabyte array would have cost about $500,000 US. This drive is roughly 1000 times cheaper.

 

We can't be too terribly far off from having 100 terabyte drives, and with an array of 10 of those you could easily have 1 petabyte of storage in a home server. My mind just boggles, I don't even know what you'd do with that. I don't imagine you could begin to mirror the internet, maybe just mirror archive.org, the Library of Congress and Wikipedia?

[Fuchur]

100T would be a different technology... till now that is very far off for only one drive, but we will see .

I have a home server with 3TB of space and even that is not full or close to yet...

 

Oh and if you are wondering how large the internet is... it's just an estimation of cause, but:

http://www.sciencefocus.com/qa/how-many-terabytes-data-are-internet

 

See you

*Fuchur*

[fae_alba]

a full raid rack for a home network would be better. Having a 10tb drive means potentially losing 10tb of data with one failure. Can't imagine trying to backup 10tb in a timely manner either. A rack with say 5 1 tb drives with hotswap capabilities would make me sleep better at night.

[Fuchur]

...and would very likely be much more failure save anyway... but still it is fastinating because in a couple of years those 10 TBs will be our 1TBs from today .

[Simon Edmondson]

I had the misfortune ( due to fatigue and stupidity ) to lose 600+ Gb of files on my backup drive earlier in the summer. I got some restoration software and set it loose on the drive.Three weeks later it was stillonly up to 18% scanning for deleted files. I was thinking about starting again when the matter was taken out of my hands with a powercut.

I was so very happy about that.

 

decided to grimace and bare it and try not to be so dumb next time...

regards

simon

[fae_alba]

Simon, been there done that, not to discover I didn't learn from my mistakes and allowed history to repeat itself. Hence my desire for a raid rack, at least it's one more defense against my ingrained stupidity.

[robcat2075]

I think the first hard drive I ever owned was in my Amiga 4000 in the early 90s and that was 10 MB I think. That held both the Amiga OS and a Mac OS for a mac emulator.

[Roger]

That seems a touch on the low side for the 90s, you sure it wasn't 100MB?

[robcat2075]

I guess you're right. According to Wikipedia it came with a 120MB hard drive.