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June 23rd, 2004, 03:15 AM
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| | Onii-san
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| Any Hard drives bigger than 300gb?
Are there any IDE hard drives bigger than 300gb?
Thanks,
-Biz
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June 23rd, 2004, 03:24 AM
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i think hitachi has a 400gb but i'm not sure if its availible
why do you need such a big drive most over 250 only have a 2mb cache imo a raid-0 would be the best solution | |
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June 23rd, 2004, 03:26 AM
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Not that I found of.
But, I think the external drives are just regular ide drives inside a casing. Thus, lacie big disk 500GB could be an ide device. | |
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June 23rd, 2004, 03:30 AM
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Originally Posted by muno Not that I found of.
But, I think the external drives are just regular ide drives inside a casing. Thus, lacie big disk 500GB could be an ide device. | I'm pretty sure that that is two 250GB drives in one case. | |
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June 23rd, 2004, 03:33 AM
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Didn't think about that, could be true also  | |
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June 23rd, 2004, 03:49 AM
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| | Onii-san
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Originally Posted by HeadBand i think hitachi has a 400gb but i'm not sure if its availible
why do you need such a big drive most over 250 only have a 2mb cache imo a raid-0 would be the best solution |
my current anime collection size is 226.75GB, not including the two 100CD spindles of cds with anime episodes on it as well.
I was just wondering if there were bigger drives out to push down the price of current drives.
Also, whats so great about raid-0? | |
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June 23rd, 2004, 04:02 AM
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Mine is 200GB. I don't know what to fill in there. Maybe a swimming pool 
Well a hard drive called Wiebetech has a 600GB, but its RPM remain at 5400. Unlike smaller Gbytes can be up to 7k RPM.
Heres a bit of news: http://news.softpedia.com/news/2/200...ary/7060.shtml
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June 23rd, 2004, 04:14 AM
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Raid 0 can handle large files faster. | |
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June 23rd, 2004, 04:40 AM
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well for the cost of a 300gb drive you can almost get 3 160gb drives so that gives you 180 more gigs and if you're gonna have multiple drives a raid 0 will give you a performance increase
basically what it does is makes the 2 or 3 or however many drives into 1 logical drive and will read and write to them simultaneously making it run much faster when accessing the drive | |
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June 23rd, 2004, 05:02 AM
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raid0 is NOT fault tolerant, so if one of the drives breaks down, the entire stripe is lost.
Also, having huge amount of drives requires a lot of power from psu. | |
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