Looking for a 1tb drive

[Stu1983]

I'm on the hunt for a 1TB drive the best I've found is £170 from Amazon has anyone seen anything better? I'm in the UK so if I import anything I'll be charged a further 17.5%

I'd rather just a plain old bare drive either sata or ide but any I have found are more expensive than this 1 in a case, so hopefully I'll be able to strip the case off this one and just use the bare drive

Stu

[Tom Speirs]

I'm on the hunt for a 1TB drive the best I've found is £170 from Amazon has anyone seen anything better? I'm in the UK so if I import anything I'll be charged a further 17.5%

I'd rather just a plain old bare drive either sata or ide but any I have found are more expensive than this 1 in a case, so hopefully I'll be able to strip the case off this one and just use the bare drive

Stu

I noticed scan has an actual internal 1TB drive now. I think its hitachi.

Here's the link:

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Products.as...2&OrderBy=1

Its a great time to buy from the states if your in the UK, because of the exchange rate, but generally it can be a real pain. No offence to anyone, but a lot of companies in the states, just dont "understand" about non US stuff.

EDIT: In addition about the stripping the drive, I think yourll find that Lacie drive has two 500GB drives in it. 1TB singal drives are brand new as far as I know. I think the only one is the Hitachi.

Tom

[Will]

I have seen them for $399 here in the US at newegg.com. You are better off going with a 750gig drive though right now. The price per gigabyte is much less. Now that Seagate, Hitachi, and Western Digital all have 1TB models there will be some price competition, but the prices won't drop for a few months probably.

750gig @ $219 = $0.29/gig

1000gig @ $399 = $0.39/gig

That's almost a 25% premium. Ouch.

[Tom Speirs]

I have seen them for $399 here in the US at newegg.com. You are better off going with a 750gig drive though right now. The price per gigabyte is much less. Now that Seagate, Hitachi, and Western Digital all have 1TB models there will be some price competition, but the prices won't drop for a few months probably.

750gig @ $219 = $0.29/gig

1000gig @ $399 = $0.39/gig

That's almost a 25% premium. Ouch.

I agree, go for a 750gb, or raid 2 of them together. The 750GB drives are fast drives too because there perpendicular. Im not completely up to date, but last I heard was they outperform all the 500GB's. I didnt realise other companies were doing them now, but again I agree got to be good for competition.

[Adultery]

I just got an external 1.5 TB drive and it cost me about 450 USD. I coulda got 3 500 GB drives for about 50-60 USD less, so I feel a little cheated. It works awesome, but I wish I would have waited for the price to drop some...

Just my two cents.

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[bkenobi]

I just got an external 1.5 TB drive and it cost me about 450 USD. I coulda got 3 500 GB drives for about 50-60 USD less, so I feel a little cheated. It works awesome, but I wish I would have waited for the price to drop some...

Just my two cents.

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I haven't read up on that drive, but it appears to be a RAID of 2 750GB drives, right?

[Adultery]

I haven't read up on that drive, but it appears to be a RAID of 2 750GB drives, right?

Yes it is.

[Stu1983]

EDIT: In addition about the stripping the drive, I think yourll find that Lacie drive has two 500GB drives in it. 1TB singal drives are brand new as far as I know. I think the only one is the Hitachi.

Tom

The picture doesn't look big enough for it to be 2x 500gb... I was going to go with a 750GB drive until I seen this one on amazon for 40 more than the 750 I'd found maybe it's just a generic picture though that they use for all their lacie drives... it does seem rather cheap compared to the standard price of a 1tb single drive... I think I'll email them and ask them what size it is

Stu

[Stu1983]

I just checked the product dimensions: 44 x 173 x 268 mm

Just a bit bigger than 2 hard drives side by side, so your right Tom it's 2x 500gb

Ah well looks like a 750gb it is then

Stu

[Lord Zog]

The Seagate 750's are faster than the Hitachi 1TB's anyways. 6 750's and your laughing. If ya need em for external storage, they are great. If ya buy OEM's, keep the clear cases for em for the dust. They are good cases too.. Not like the flimsy anti-static bags the Maxtor's come in. And yes, I do use too many smilies. Don't ask. Gotta click the mouse every once in a while for the hell of it.

[enoch]

I happened upon an ebay auction for a new 250 gig Seagate that topped out at $42. Not knowing anything about this stuff, I didn't bid. Alas. However, I'm waiting for newer technologies, like perhaps a shaking drive I saw an article about at physicsweb.org that would out-perform disc drives by at least five times, I think. But I'm really waiting for organic memory and storage devices.

[Lord Zog]

organic memory you'll be waiting a while. If your always waiting for the next best thing, ya won't buy anything. This market moves to quickly to "wait" for the next best thing. As for the organic storage devices, they sound nice, but failed way too many redundancy tests. Back to the drawing board. Flash mem will beat it out very soon anyways with flashes being as high as 250GB's now.

And the next DVD mediums are not worth it. Blu-Ray is in excess of 20cdn a disk. Thats 80 cents per gig. A good 750GB at 299 cdn is less than 40 cents a GB. And ya don't need a 1K writter.

[Will]

organic memory you'll be waiting a while. If your always waiting for the next best thing, ya won't buy anything. This market moves to quickly to "wait" for the next best thing. As for the organic storage devices, they sound nice, but failed way too many redundancy tests. Back to the drawing board. Flash mem will beat it out very soon anyways with flashes being as high as 250GB's now.

And the next DVD mediums are not worth it. Blu-Ray is in excess of 20cdn a disk. Thats 80 cents per gig. A good 750GB at 299 cdn is less than 40 cents a GB. And ya don't need a 1K writter.

Right. And you get 80-90MB/s and rewritable. Try that, Blu-Ray. For storage purposes, optical technology has been eclipsed. Of course for content delivery (PS3) Blu-Ray may have some uses.

[bkenobi]

Media prices always drop, so don't worry about that in your equation. I remember buying 74min CD's for over $10 each. That was months after the release of the technology, and I know people who were paying over $40 each earlier on. Now you can get a 100pc spindle for free on the right day. DVD's used to cost $40+ each not too long ago. Now they are pennies a piece. Oh, and my 4x Yamaha SCSI burner cost me ~$600 when I got it. My last burner was many times the drive that one was and was free after rebate! The same will happen with Blu-Ray and HDDVD but probably not for a while.

As for flash media, while they are getting up there in capacity, you have to remember that they have a limitted number of writes in their life. The same is true for a HDD, but it's orders of magnitude higher.

If you need something now in the 750GB-1TB range, go get it and be happy with it. If you keep looking at the price and say "next time it drops", you'll never get it because drives keep growing and prices keep dropping!

[Lord Zog]

Exactly.. I paid 799 for my first CD burner and I was paying 49 per disk. Now I can get a spindle of 50's for 10 bucks. First DVD-Burner was a Pioneer A-03 and paid 899 for it... Now they are worth 40 bucks for the burners. For Blu-Ray, when its worth it, maybe then I will invest. For now, even for the PS3, HDD's are the way to go for backups.

[Will]

The problem I always have with it is that by the time the media becomes mass produced and the price gets sane, another technology is on the near horizon and other technologies have caught up. When blank CDs got dirt cheap, here came DVDs. When DVDs became dirt cheap, here comes HD-DVD and Blu-Ray. The whole time though, HDDs were cheaper and faster.

[bkenobi]

Yup, that's marketing for you. When profits drop off, they have 2 ways to go: 1) make them available in mass quantities so that they sell more at slimmer margins; 2) reduce production of the old tech to force you to buy the new tech...and pay for it.

In the end, it's just technology. You know it's going to be better and cheaper tomorrow than it is today, so just get what you need when you need it and don't worry about the fact that in retrospect you got ripped off. You got the use of the item in the interim, so it's not really that bad anyway...