In the vein of the Huge Media Vault,
Iomega released its Hard Drive XL. They say it has a full
terrabyte of storage, in four drives (raid 0 of course.) It's not
cheap, at $900, but could be worth it. The drives themselves are
all 250 GB 7200 RPM SATA, with 8MB cache. For those of you not of
the computer nerd persuasion, that basically means they're really quick
drives. If I was looking for a raid array, I'd have no problem
rocking hard drives with those specs. It connects through
FireWire 800, 400 and USB 2.0 (and consequently 1.1.)Personally, I use just one internal 7200 RPM 250 GB HD for storage, but I have a colleague who edits uncompressed HD documentaries (using SpeedRazor!!) and he has a raid array with 20 78GB hard drives (for the math challenged, that's 1.5 terrabytes.) He uses that for speed sake (the amount of drives lets data have more places to go quickly.) What do you use for your huge storage needs? Do you use SCSI anymore, or is FireWire good enough?
1. I'm looking to expand my storage capabilities too. I found a nice 4 drive enclosure with a usb 2.0 interface http://www.cooldrives.com/qubaysatousb.html
This solution is cheaper and easily expandable. My focus isn't for speed, but if it was, I would go with an emerging technology called eSATA which boasts a transfer speed of 3.0 Gbps compared to USB 2.0's 480 Mbps.
Posted at 5:40PM on Nov 28th 2005 by Kingkool68