New Maxtor External - 1TB for $500

wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
edited October 19, 2006 in Accessories
Seagate's making Maxtor their bargain brand.

And what a bargain it is. They have a 1TB (2x500GB) external for just over $500. Sounds extremely tempting, to me. I'd like to use something like this to backup my other externals.

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  • ESigginsESiggins Registered Users Posts: 185 Major grins
    edited October 13, 2006
    Meh, not big enough. It'd only hold 100 photos from my new 18 bazillion MP camera. :D
    Shoot, or shoot not. There is no try.
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  • wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited October 13, 2006
    ESiggins wrote:
    Meh, not big enough. It'd only hold 100 photos from my new 18 bazillion MP camera. :D
    lol3.gif

    nod.gif That's the road we're heading down. Nothing is ever enough.
    Sid.
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  • SeymoreSeymore Banned Posts: 1,539 Major grins
    edited October 14, 2006
    KEWL!!! A bigger basket for ALL my eggs! :ivar headscratch.gif

    Think I'll pass (for now). Rather have 4 250M drives. thumb.gif
  • mr peasmr peas Registered Users Posts: 1,369 Major grins
    edited October 14, 2006
    I think I can store my soul and my photos in one of those.
  • wholenewlightwholenewlight Registered Users Posts: 1,529 Major grins
    edited October 14, 2006
    mr peas wrote:
    I think I can store my soul and my photos in one of those.

    Yeah, I believe it has the "automatic soul capture" feature. mwink.gif

    Won't work for me - I already sold my soul . . . to Nikon
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  • gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
    edited October 14, 2006
    I swear waxy that someone took stuff from you as a kid....you appear to buy a HD each month ?
  • ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,938 moderator
    edited October 14, 2006
    What do you think you'll get to backup the backups?

    One of these? These are the big bad boys. I have one (at work).

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  • ziggy53ziggy53 Super Moderators Posts: 24,129 moderator
    edited October 14, 2006
    ian408 wrote:
    What do you think you'll get to backup the backups?

    One of these? These are the big bad boys. I have one (at work).

    fas6070_cabinet.gif

    504TB Max Raw Capacity! WOW!
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  • wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited October 14, 2006
    gus wrote:
    I swear waxy that someone took stuff from you as a kid....you appear to buy a HD each month ?
    lol3.gif Still looking, trying to figure out the best way to back up my stuff.
    Sid.
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  • Mike LaneMike Lane Registered Users Posts: 7,106 Major grins
    edited October 14, 2006
    Wired has an article that may be interesting for you.
    Y'all don't want to hear me, you just want to dance.

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  • Art ScottArt Scott Registered Users Posts: 8,959 Major grins
    edited October 14, 2006
    ANOTHER GOOD HD DEAL .. Seagate 500gb $199.99
    I just recieved the Tiger Direct flyer/catalog and segate has a 500gb hd for 199.99 Stk # THD-500A....i haven't czeched website for price on line yet....
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  • SeymoreSeymore Banned Posts: 1,539 Major grins
    edited October 15, 2006
    Mike Lane wrote:
    Wired has an article that may be interesting for you.
    Interesting... And scary. With ID theft today, will copyright theft be right behind? (just wondering out loud)
  • mr peasmr peas Registered Users Posts: 1,369 Major grins
    edited October 15, 2006
    ian408 wrote:
    What do you think you'll get to backup the backups?

    One of these? These are the big bad boys. I have one (at work).

    fas6070_cabinet.gif
    We can put everyone's soul from Dgrin in there and still have room to store all of our digital images compiled together.
  • blackwaterstudioblackwaterstudio Registered Users Posts: 779 Major grins
    edited October 15, 2006
    ian408 wrote:
    What do you think you'll get to backup the backups?

    One of these? These are the big bad boys. I have one (at work).

    fas6070_cabinet.gif
    This is what we have at work;
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    27TB as of right now and expanding.
  • ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,938 moderator
    edited October 16, 2006
    blackwaterstudio wrote:
    This is what we have at work;
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    27TB as of right now and expanding.

    We are looking at something like this for our scratch space. It's pretty
    cool and the performance looks to be nicely scalable. We've had a few
    problems with the one we have so don't plan on replacing the 6000 series
    anytime soon. The other problem we have is the number of files--something
    like one billion at our site alone (yup, 1B).

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  • blackwaterstudioblackwaterstudio Registered Users Posts: 779 Major grins
    edited October 16, 2006
    ian408 wrote:
    We are looking at something like this for our scratch space. It's pretty
    cool and the performance looks to be nicely scalable. We've had a few
    problems with the one we have so don't plan on replacing the 6000 series
    anytime soon. The other problem we have is the number of files--something
    like one billion at our site alone (yup, 1B).

    softwareannounce.jpg

    We like EMC alot for some reason. Guess I shouldn't complain though, we haven't had any major problems so far. The one problem were having now is trying to keep our server room cold.
  • ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,938 moderator
    edited October 16, 2006
    blackwaterstudio wrote:
    The one problem were having now is trying to keep our server room cold.

    btdt. i just tossed about 40 280R's. It's pretty cold in there now mwink.gif
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  • blackwaterstudioblackwaterstudio Registered Users Posts: 779 Major grins
    edited October 16, 2006
    ian408 wrote:
    btdt. i just tossed about 40 280R's. It's pretty cold in there now mwink.gif

    lol, we have a leibert system right now, and since we've added alot of new blade servers the temp has went up. I believe we are going to know a wall out and move the blades to another section by theirselves
  • ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,938 moderator
    edited October 17, 2006
    blackwaterstudio wrote:
    lol, we have a leibert system right now, and since we've added alot of new blade servers the temp has went up. I believe we are going to know a wall out and move the blades to another section by theirselves

    Do they exhaust out the top? If so, build a chimeny an push the hot air out
    into the plenum above the ceiling. Be careful though. The Leibert wants a
    fair amount of return air.
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  • cdonovancdonovan Registered Users Posts: 724 Major grins
    edited October 19, 2006
    I bought the 200gb last week...Love it...says it should have 150,000 pictures storage capacity!!!eek7.gif It's wonderful so far!
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