WD has hard drive tech breakthrough: Up to 40 TB by 2019

[Zero-Point]

[QUOTE=glitchvid;52782277]I have a WD black drive that's 8 years now, and a few WD RE4s that are pushing 6. 95+% uptime on them too. But doesn't mean I trust them at all, just delays my replacing them.[/QUOTE]

I used to have a friend who shat all over Seagate, saying they were unreliable and garbage and what-not, while praising WD for their longevity. It was funny shit because over the course of 5-7 years, the ONE DRIVE he had which refused to die was a (at the time) 12 year-old 2GB Seagate drive, and nearly every WD drive he had bought had shit the bed in some fashion or another.

[kpjVideo]

You generally see higher capacity drives die quicker, as someone who works alot in the computer business I've seen alot more 1TB drives die over the years than 80GB ones

[DaBeaver]

Hell, my Samsung HDD is still going strong after 10 years of use, and that thing's with me from my first pc.

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[QUOTE=Zero-Point;52787410]I used to have a friend who shat all over Seagate, saying they were unreliable and garbage and what-not, while praising WD for their longevity. It was funny shit because over the course of 5-7 years, the ONE DRIVE he had which refused to die was a (at the time) 12 year-old 2GB Seagate drive, and nearly every WD drive he had bought had shit the bed in some fashion or another.[/QUOTE]

Seagate had like ONE really bad run of drives and then everyone was terrible for a bit while the Tsunami did its thing. I've had a 10GB deskstar and 640GB WD Blue die and thats it

[Flak]

I'm still using my Samsung Spinpoint F3, it's still going strong.

I'm sad they stopped making them.

[mastersrp]

[QUOTE=RoboChimp;52779286]Not mention the Australia government

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That's why they use the term "up to" in their advertising.[/QUOTE]

In most countries sure, but in Denmark this is no longer allowed, and the speeds must be guaranteed from at least the "outlet".

[QUOTE=glitchvid;52779352]The runs have to be fairly short, and are super susceptible to signal degradation. In most cases if you even wanted to deliver 1gibit/s you'd need to upgrade the lines - and at that point fiber is only marginally more expensive.

Any company still installing copper for last-mile (or even to the local node, lmao CTL) is kidding themselves and should be dissolved for incompetence.[/QUOTE]

But then we're talking about new installations, not existing. New installations should be fiber yes, although the equipment required is crazy expensive, especially the maintenance equipment required to splice the fibers and such and such.

Fibers themselves are not expensive, but the equipment is. If someone is starting an ISP company, fiber is the way to go, since the equipment isn't there yet anyway, but in existing companies it makes sense to take it slow, since the costs of changing, especially if you're doing TV and internet using seperate technologies which many places still do, instead of doing fiber all the way and IPTV only.

[Archival]

I can see it now, tech illiterate's freaking out that hard drives will now give their children cancer because microwaves.

[Glitchvid]

[QUOTE=mastersrp;52792142]
But then we're talking about new installations, not existing. New installations should be fiber yes, although the equipment required is crazy expensive, especially the maintenance equipment required to splice the fibers and such and such.

Fibers themselves are not expensive, but the equipment is. If someone is starting an ISP company, fiber is the way to go, since the equipment isn't there yet anyway, but in existing companies it makes sense to take it slow, since the costs of changing, especially if you're doing TV and internet using seperate technologies which many places still do, instead of doing fiber all the way and IPTV only.[/QUOTE]

Fiber itself is about 3x per foot the price of steel-core coax, and yeah it's more expensive to terminate than coax. But in general, even considering the cost of equipment like arc splicers, you may as well roll fiber, the biggest expense of internet infrastructure is the labor.

Few ISPs actually have teams to put infrastructure into the ground, they have fleets to do regularly maintenance, but even then usually those "employees" are contractors, and expected to buy their own equipment frequently. For actual trench-digging, infra rollout, professional contractors are brought out - and at that point you may as well put fiber in your VERY expensive hole.