Topic: Exclusive: Seagate confirms 3TB drive

[sam]

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/

[Rik]

That's an awful lot of data to lose if it fails...

[Simon]

That's what I worry about with these huge drives. 

[daveeb]

obviously you'd back all your data up to floppy disc first 

[Simon]

[Rik]

So that would be a large cupboard full then.

[Simon]

And the one you'd need would be right at the back. 

[Rik]

Always...

[Simon]

And if you'd started at the back, it would be at the front. 

[Rik]

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.

[Simon]

Those were the days! 

[Rik]

Then came tape drives - enough to try the patience of a saint.

[Simon]

I had a game machine with a tape drive. 

[Rik]

That was to load though, presumably. The backup tape drives had an incredibly whiny noise and then took forever to make a copy.

[Sandra]

Looks like RAID is going to become the norm again soon