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1.5TB HDDs
Anyone installed any yet? If so what's performance like on them?
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Can't see us installing any for a while, we prefer to go with more spindles for performance reasons. Think we did use some 1TB drives in a project for a customer who wanted space on a tighter budget, other then that we tend to stick with 640GB at most (use 320GB platters, so good performance compared to 500/750GB which use 250GB platters).
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Obviously I'd never use them in a high I/O load but I thought maybe for backup servers where I/O isn't as important as space (well, depending on the type of backup etc I guess) but still curious as to how well they do/don't perform
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Good news for everyone with unlimited hosting plans 
Not tried them myself. I've yet to buy even a 1TB drive yet. That sort of capacity scares me. Great though, will be able to take my backup box to 7TB with only 6 slots!
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I'm going to stick 14 of them in our next iScsi SAN bay, will let you know.
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Not tried them myself. I've yet to buy even a 1TB drive yet. That sort of capacity scares me. Great though, will be able to take my backup box to 7TB with only 6 slots! |
Only if they cost 6 pence each....
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we stuck 28 of the 1Tb drives in a setup for a customer a few months ago, they are so going to be p!ssed when they find out 1.5's are out ...
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So tempted to fill the spare MD1000 we have with 15 of these and hook it up to my home network 
Actually, what would you do with 22.5TB of storage???
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So tempted to fill the spare MD1000 we have with 15 of these and hook it up to my home network
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Hmm depends how much bandwidth you have at home... I bet even Be* would be pi**ed if you started trying to fill that ;-)
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Might actually be handy for a customer of our. They have an interesting habit of backing up a backup of the backups onto their PCs. Then (Just to be safe) they back them up using Ghost and store the image on the server (Which is backed up).
Makes recovery of the "Latest" a bit challenging sometimes
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I think your customer needs a bit of a slap - in the nicest possible way, backups of backups inside the backup - sure way to actually reduce the lifetime of your equipment and increase backup/restore windows.
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Indeed. We rationalised things somewhat(!) when we picked them up as customers, but they've crept back into their old habits.
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Strange for a large/new drive it seems the cost per GB is less than an older 1TB and there was me thinking you always paid a premium for new stuff
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Using the 1TB's already quite a bit, not had one 1TB Seagate (whether part number *AS or *NS) fail or show problems in several months which is good.
Special relationship with Seagate, so Seagate only anyway...
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