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Just when solid-state drives were about to catch up to the spinners, Hitachi has gone and announced that it is working on a 5TB hard drive. It says the drive should be available by 2010 in a 3.5-inch format and will use perpendicular CPP-GMR tech to achieve some serious density. Just to show off, Hitachi's Yoshiro Shiroishi pointed out that the human brain has been estimated at (only?) around 10TB. So there we have it -- we're halfway to intellectual obsolescence. Don't say we didn't warn you!

www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/hitac...
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3 months, 1 week ago by Blayne D. - Pro!

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  • clarke t. clarke t. replied Jul 3rd
    that's a massive data loss waiting to happen; there's now too much data available to the home user, with no good backup technology advancements.
  • Blayne D. Blayne D. replied Jul 3rd
    Have you seen Drobo?
  • clarke t. clarke t. replied Jul 3rd
    yes, been considering it....basically it's a plug and play RAID5, only as big as the smallest drive. but that's not a good solution, wholly. you're still in a location based accident issue.

    such as if you had a flood, and you lost all your drives & paperwork, I'm sure the IRS doesn't care.
  • Blayne D. Blayne D. replied Jul 3rd
    There are solutions for the drobo to provide physical location redundancy. I have the drobo at home. The available space is only as big as the smallest drive if you only have two drives. If you have 3, the third is used as a parity drive so that you have 2/3's the space. The current software supports up to (32TB?). So it's definitely the best solution around.

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