Hitachi engineering unveils the world's first 3,5" 10TB harddrive - Polidicks

[QUOTE=Sableye;45943950]great another use for our very small supply of helium, we really gotta start building that back up[/QUOTE] What do you mean? This is just more incentive for us to go out and colonize the moon!

I always thought hard drives were vacuum sealed. My backup drive was collecting dust on a shelf all this time, damn.

I can't remember the chart but wasn't hitachi the company that fails a lot more than WD and Seagate? Tons if dotage is always cool but if it's unreliable I won't store much on it.

[QUOTE=FullStreak12;45944938]I can't remember the chart but wasn't hitachi the company that fails a lot more than WD and Seagate? Tons if dotage is always cool but if it's unreliable I won't store much on it.[/QUOTE] Actually, they are the most reliable [t]http://images.techhive.com/images/article/2014/01/backblaze-annual-hdd-failure-rate-100226259-orig.jpg[/t]

[QUOTE=Animosus;45945930]Actually, they are the most reliable [t]http://images.techhive.com/images/article/2014/01/backblaze-annual-hdd-failure-rate-100226259-orig.jpg[/t][/QUOTE] Blackblaze's study was a load of BS.

[QUOTE=Animosus;45945930]Actually, they are the most reliable [t]http://images.techhive.com/images/article/2014/01/backblaze-annual-hdd-failure-rate-100226259-orig.jpg[/t][/QUOTE] Gonna need a second and third party to confirm that.

[QUOTE=TheTalon;45944305]Naaaah. If Bobo the neighborhood clown can use it for balloons at his birthday gigs, then it's still cheap[/QUOTE] Can he though? When's the last time you rented a clown?

[QUOTE=Qwerty Bastard;45944083]This plus the fact that the thing is filled with fucking helium tells me that it's going to cost several arms and legs.[/QUOTE] seriously, i just had a transport homework question about helium leaking out of a pyrex tube, if it can get through pyrex i can't imagine what kinda precision fitting this has [editline]10th September 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=TheTalon;45944305]Naaaah. If Bobo the neighborhood clown can use it for balloons at his birthday gigs, then it's still cheap[/QUOTE] that takes ~1% of the annual helium supply, the vast majority goes into industrial applications

Seagate failed on me after 3-4 years of having my hard drive, Western Digital was the cheapest and most reliable solution since I've got a WD external hard drive and have had no issues

If it does end up leaking you can just breah it in and absorb the information while waiting for brain-information extracting technology! :v:

[QUOTE=Animosus;45945930]Actually, they are the most reliable [t]http://images.techhive.com/images/article/2014/01/backblaze-annual-hdd-failure-rate-100226259-orig.jpg[/t][/QUOTE] Stop posting this damn graph. It's wrong. You are spreading misinformation. Spend 30 seconds Goolging backblaze methodology complaints. You will find page after page of faults with their shitty tests.

[QUOTE=Zephyrs;45946692]Stop posting this damn graph. It's wrong. You are spreading misinformation. Spend 30 seconds Goolging backblaze methodology complaints. You will find page after page of faults with their shitty tests.[/QUOTE] I'm sorry, didn't know how shit they were. I just googled "Most reliable hard drive brands" and literally every article on the first three pages featured this graph. Googling backblaze methodology complaints doesn't bring up anything for me either.

[QUOTE=FullStreak12;45944938]I can't remember the chart but wasn't hitachi the company that fails a lot more than WD and Seagate? Tons if dotage is always cool but if it's unreliable I won't store much on it.[/QUOTE] That chart was proved false a long time ago.

[QUOTE=Zephyrs;45946692]Stop posting this damn graph. It's wrong. You are spreading misinformation. Spend 30 seconds Goolging backblaze methodology complaints. You will find page after page of faults with their shitty tests.[/QUOTE] wasn't there a counter news/blog post someone did that removed any outliers/other biases from the raw data and still found Seagate drives to be the least reliable (not to the same extent as the graph, but still worse off than other brands). I can't find it at the moment, but I can't even find the Backblaze news thread on facepunch either Edit: found a version of it [url]http://www.zdnet.com/trust-backblazes-drive-reliability-data-7000025575/[/url]

I'm still using a 140GB Maxtor Seagate drive from like 2006-2007 as an internal and it works fine. Most my shit is on a 2TB external though. I'll have to upgrade the internal the next time I format.

[QUOTE=TornadoAP;45947000]That chart was proved false a long time ago.[/QUOTE] It's methodology was shown to be slightly off, they had sample size issues, and some disliked the environment the drives were used in (massive cases of like 40~ drives without vibration dampening) but other than that it's widely accepted Seagates have the highest failure rate of those brands. The long warranty version of the WD Drives (the WD RE4s) are as cheap as $60 on Amazon right now, so it's about the same price as a 1tb Seagate constellation.

[QUOTE=Lerd;45946643]If it does end up leaking you can just breah it in and absorb the information while waiting for brain-information extracting technology! :v:[/QUOTE] When you die, your porn stash dies with you.

For me, a 1TB internal is like the bare minimum, it's at least half-full at all times.