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Technical Help & Discussion => General Tech Discussion, News & Q&A => Topic started by: sam on May 18, 2010, 05:45
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After a few weeks of rumours, Seagate’s senior product manager Barbara Craig has confirmed to Thinq that “we are announcing a 3TB drive later this year,” but the move to 3TB of storage space apparently involves a lot more work than simply upping the areal density.
http://www.thinq.co.uk/news/2010/5/17/exclusive-seagate-confirms-3tb-drive/
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That's an awful lot of data to lose if it fails...
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That's what I worry about with these huge drives.
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obviously you'd back all your data up to floppy disc first :thumbs:
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;D
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So that would be a large cupboard full then. :)
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And the one you'd need would be right at the back. ;D
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Always... ;D
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And if you'd started at the back, it would be at the front.
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Assuming you could find it. I can remember getting to the end of a floppy backup and then discovering I couldn't find the last disk, rendering everything else useless. :cry:
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Those were the days! ;D
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Then came tape drives - enough to try the patience of a saint.
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I had a game machine with a tape drive. :)
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That was to load though, presumably. The backup tape drives had an incredibly whiny noise and then took forever to make a copy.
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Looks like RAID is going to become the norm again soon :)
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Yes, standard cassette taped to load, Rik.
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I think it will have to, Sandra, the size of these disks is quite dangerous in terms of potential loss.
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So that would be a large cupboard full then. :)
I'm probably miles out but i reckon 2 and a half million floppies should do the job nicely. Assuming each disc takes 30 seconds then you'd be fully backed up in only 2 and a half years. Oh and if a box of 10 discs costs £3 the whole job would cost a mere £750,000 :)x
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Then came tape drives - enough to try the patience of a saint.
We still use tapes as a way of backing, up they can take a huge amount of data now.
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I'm probably miles out but i reckon 2 and a half million floppies should do the job nicely. Assuming each disc takes 30 seconds then you'd be fully backed up in only 2 and a half years. Oh and if a box of 10 discs costs £3 the whole job would cost a mere £750,000 :)x
yeah I agree with roughly that value... and it would also take up a huge amount of space - assuming they are 20mm in height that's 44 km stacked on top of each other. This is roughly 5 everests...
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Seems perfectly reasonable to me. ;D