So what say you technophiles and geekpundits? When are we going to see high capacity solid state hard disks with lots o' gigs? (that us common folk can afford)
High Capacity Solid State HDs
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Rumor has it the next gen Mac laptops will come with such devices.
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Hard drives are pretty cheap these days. I think it'll be awhile before they come out for the PC market. When they do, I imagine the capacity will be in terabytes and of course, very expensive.
Look at what happened to LCD monitors. They've been around for years, but only recently they pretty much have taken over the market.
Look at what happened to LCD monitors. They've been around for years, but only recently they pretty much have taken over the market.
Well I figure one terabyte in solid state should be enough to last me for the rest of my life.
Mechanical HDs scare me because you could lose everything at any time for a multitude of reasons. I just bought a huge CD collection that I am trying to rip to HD so I can be mobile and not have to lug around hundreds and hundreds of CDs for DJing. I actually can't fathom filling a one terabyte drive. You can store a whole lot in a couple hundred gigs.
Link to some info regarding Solid State Drives that are on the market.
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Performance is an issue along with price.
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Performance is an issue along with price.
Well based on what I got from that article it'll be a couple more years like 2 or 3, maybe more before 250GB or 500GB capacity drives will be available just based on what is coming out right now and in the near future. Looks like I'm going to go with one of those tiny 2.5" USB powered drive for the forseeable future. Well thanks fellas.
The XO laptop has a 1Gb mass storage device, so they might be right around the corner.
64gb SSD cost $1100 delivered. 80gb 7200rpm harddrive cost $40. I could strip/raid a bunch, keep a several in backup enclosures......for a couple hundred.
For a mobile environment, SSD should easily tolerate weather and vibrations better. But, unless your laptop is eating harddrives monthly, why go SSD?
I don't know what the big deal is with gigantic harddrives. Thats a ton of data to lose when it crashes. What home PC actually need terabytes?
Harddrives are pretty much disposable. I myself crash one a year. And, seems to be pretty common replacement part when making housecalls. Don't know where manufacturers create their MTBFs. Someone is lying.
When I worked for a loacal storage server company, a typical server would dump 10% of its harddrives during burn-in prior to shipping. When a server held 400 harddrives, makes you wonder if MTBF meant anything.
For a mobile environment, SSD should easily tolerate weather and vibrations better. But, unless your laptop is eating harddrives monthly, why go SSD?
I don't know what the big deal is with gigantic harddrives. Thats a ton of data to lose when it crashes. What home PC actually need terabytes?
Harddrives are pretty much disposable. I myself crash one a year. And, seems to be pretty common replacement part when making housecalls. Don't know where manufacturers create their MTBFs. Someone is lying.
When I worked for a loacal storage server company, a typical server would dump 10% of its harddrives during burn-in prior to shipping. When a server held 400 harddrives, makes you wonder if MTBF meant anything.
"What home PC actually need terabytes?"
I thought the same thing til a friend of mine recently lost two Seagate 750GB drives with video projects on there. $1200 to get the data back from a data retrieval company.
Plus music. I have about 300GB of music...not TB level, but when someone does anything video related, storage needs go thru the roof.
I thought the same thing til a friend of mine recently lost two Seagate 750GB drives with video projects on there. $1200 to get the data back from a data retrieval company.
Plus music. I have about 300GB of music...not TB level, but when someone does anything video related, storage needs go thru the roof.
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Well I figure one terabyte in solid state should be enough to last me for the rest of my life.
I remember thinking 30 meg should last me the rest of my life when I bought my 1st hard drive way back in the olden daze.
As far as mechanical reliability goes, get an extra drive and do frequent backups and also keep the irreplaceable stuff on DVDs in another location.
Well I figure one terabyte in solid state should be enough to last me for the rest of my life.
I remember thinking 30 meg should last me the rest of my life when I bought my 1st hard drive way back in the olden daze.
As far as mechanical reliability goes, get an extra drive and do frequent backups and also keep the irreplaceable stuff on DVDs in another location.
I'm not doing any video so I don't have that kind of huge storage needs, but all the audio is going to need to be backed up. The amount of time it's taking me to rip hundreds of CDs is crazy. I can't go through that again. I have no choice but to have a backup drive.
Using a rough estimate, I might be able to fit everything that I have right now on a 100GB drive. 500GB and under is very inexpensive now. I just liked the concept of recoding to a solid state drive and not having to worry as much about losing everything due to some sort of mechanical failure that HDs are prone to. Maybe I can archive everything on 15 or 20 dual layer DVD disks too? Put them in a safe or safety deposit box etc.
Can you imagine dragging around 1,000 or more original CDs every time you did a gig? As it is there is a ton of other stuff to lug around like speakers, amps, mixers, cables, mics, and on and on. The times they are a changing...
Using a rough estimate, I might be able to fit everything that I have right now on a 100GB drive. 500GB and under is very inexpensive now. I just liked the concept of recoding to a solid state drive and not having to worry as much about losing everything due to some sort of mechanical failure that HDs are prone to. Maybe I can archive everything on 15 or 20 dual layer DVD disks too? Put them in a safe or safety deposit box etc.
Can you imagine dragging around 1,000 or more original CDs every time you did a gig? As it is there is a ton of other stuff to lug around like speakers, amps, mixers, cables, mics, and on and on. The times they are a changing...
A music library is ideal for DVD backup as a second line of defense. One you do it the first time it won't be difficult to update every month or so as you burn new tunes. A safe deposit box is a good idea and be sure to use archival quality DVDs if you want them to last along time.
An external drive located a few feet from you computer and preferably locked up or hidden is the best 1st line of defense because it's easy enough to do that it will get done more often.
An external drive located a few feet from you computer and preferably locked up or hidden is the best 1st line of defense because it's easy enough to do that it will get done more often.
So tell me, what's the best way to archive to DVD? Can the DVDs be used to play from? I have a DVD/MP3/CD/Karaoke player. It'll play nearly any format.
How many songs roughly could I fit onto a 4.7GB DVD? What format would I want the songs in? What program would be best to use? I have Nero. An OEM version came installed on my computer.
How many songs roughly could I fit onto a 4.7GB DVD? What format would I want the songs in? What program would be best to use? I have Nero. An OEM version came installed on my computer.
Use your favorite backup software to save to the DVD.
Save you files in the format you want them in. If you use them as MP3 keep them as MP3. etc.
The details will depend on which backup software you use.
Some backup software keeps the files easily readable, some store it in their own format.
I use Karen's Replicator (google will find it). It's free and stone-ax simple. I haven't tried writing directly to a DVD with it.
Save you files in the format you want them in. If you use them as MP3 keep them as MP3. etc.
The details will depend on which backup software you use.
Some backup software keeps the files easily readable, some store it in their own format.
I use Karen's Replicator (google will find it). It's free and stone-ax simple. I haven't tried writing directly to a DVD with it.
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