[Pc_Support] 750gb hard drives!!

[patrick]

Damien McKenna wrote:

> From the "Jinkies!" department, Seagate just announced 750gb hard 
> drives based on their new perpendicular storage technique:
> http://dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=1896
>
> You know, that's 1000 times larger than my first HD?
>
> Damien
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A MAC customer at MacCoctor wants to enlarge his G5 dual processor 
machine, as he does commercial video movies for Wild Life non-profits.  
(I am there, building R2-d2, then, an R5, and fixing MACs). 

He has dual 250Gb sata drives.  And, an external 400Gb drive.  Movie 
footage typically  runs about 100 Gb.   Says external 750's would be 
good.  Advice is NOT to run dual 750GB drives internally, as drive 
maintenance,  back ups, and file management (runs twice monthly) can be 
a genuine time waster! 

Am approaching a terabyte, on my home network...
160Gb Maxtor, plus an 80Gb WD on Xerp ( dual boot),
two 80Gb on this Kubuntu linux box,
120 Gb and 80 Gb on PCLinux AMD2.0 box
Six  50GB Seagate 10,000 rpm Seagate Cheetah SCSI drives, and
Four 18.2 Gb Seagate Cheetah 10k rpm SCSI drives, and six 9Gb Scsi 
drives on three server boxen...

Hmmm! It looks like 1.024 Terabytes...
Not counting the 15 node Cluster...