Hitachi 4tb Touro Desk Pro with USB 3.0 - £164.99 delivered @ ebuyer

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  Reeferman9 months, 2 weeks ago #1Show comment toolsReply

  a lot of data to lose if this dies on you !
  
  i would personally get 2 2tbs instead but not voting either way
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  canada169 months, 2 weeks ago2 Likes #2Show comment toolsReply

  Reeferman

  a lot of data to lose if this dies on you !
  
  i would personally get 2 2tbs instead but not voting either way

  
  
  So if you get 2x2tb thats 4tb worth of data, unless you raid, and if you raid then you only have 2tb worth of space.
  So why not buy 2 of these and raid, so you have 4tb, dont really see your point.
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  dddddddddddddddddddd9 months, 2 weeks ago1 Like #3Show comment toolsReply

  think the point "Reeferman" referred to is that the chance that both 2TB harddrives fail (at most you lose 2TB data) is much slimmer than 1x4TB drive fails (you might lose whole 4TB data). IN that respect, it's safer to have 2x2TB than 1x4TB.
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  lonwas9 months, 2 weeks ago #4Show comment toolsReply

  But if you have 4TB worth of data, using 2x2TB disks rather than 1x4TB roughly doubles your chance of a single disk failure.
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  antispam2469 months, 2 weeks ago1 Like #5Show comment toolsReply

  Bloody pointless arguement. It comes down to what you're doing with it and where you're putting it.
  
  Back on topic, anyone who has one or, mayhaps knows, can the HDD's be easily removed from the caddy? I'm looking for large HDD's for a server upgrade, if it's willing, I'm willing to pop them out, flog the caddies on eBay and keep the drives.
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  juicestop9 months, 2 weeks ago #6Show comment toolsReply

  antispam246

  Bloody pointless arguement. It comes down to what you're doing with it and where you're putting it.
  
  Back on topic, anyone who has one or, mayhaps knows, can the HDD's be easily removed from the caddy? I'm looking for large HDD's for a server upgrade, if it's willing, I'm willing to pop them out, flog the caddies on eBay and keep the drives.

  
  
  The drive can be removed, but not easily, you'll trash the case in the process so no chance of selling them on eBay. Oh, and once you remove the drive you also remove your 2 year warranty.
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  musicl9 months, 2 weeks ago #7Show comment toolsReply

  Just removed the drive and broke a knife! Worth saving £20 a drive though from buying it blank.
  
  See vid http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=morhgz2OU_g
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  urmum9 months, 2 weeks ago2 Likes #8Show comment toolsReply

  Reeferman

  a lot of data to lose if this dies on you !
  
  i would personally get 2 2tbs instead but not voting either way

  
  i dont get it... when 2tb drives came out people used to say they would rather get 2x 1tb drives... do those people now get 4x 1tb drives instead of this one? and the people who used to say 512gb was a lot now have to get 8x 512gbdrives?!
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  EMM3869 months, 2 weeks ago1 Like #9Show comment toolsReply

  I have 1 of these and 2 of the similar DX3s
  
  This one is 7200rpm and hdtune says its running hot 63 degrees. Nice piano black glossy fingerprint case with shiny silver trim.
  
  I prefer the dx3 that is same case but is textured black with black trim. But it's a 5700rpm drive running 52 degrees. Sadly £15 more expensive £178
  
  Gonna use 5 x DX3 in a ProLiant ML110 RaidZ array
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  u04217939 months, 2 weeks ago #10Show comment toolsReply

  urmum

  Reeferman

  a lot of data to lose if this dies on you !
  
  i would personally get 2 2tbs instead but not voting either way

  
  i dont get it... when 2tb drives came out people used to say they would rather get 2x 1tb drives... do those people now get 4x 1tb drives instead of this one? and the people who used to say 512gb was a lot now have to get 8x 512gbdrives?!

  
  …and the people who used to say they wouldn’t trust double-sided double-density floppies.
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  z0d9 months, 2 weeks ago #11Show comment toolsReply

  cool this can hold about 1/3 of my pr0nz
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  Enverex9 months, 2 weeks ago #12Show comment toolsReply

  Anyone know the model of the drive inside the case?
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  morfmedia9 months, 2 weeks ago #13Show comment toolsReply

  Enverex

  Anyone know the model of the drive inside the case?

  
  
  If you search through some of the old hotukdeals it's listed
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  EMM3869 months, 2 weeks ago #14Show comment toolsReply

  Suspect Hitachi 7K4000
  
  I've yet to open mine as I want to replace it with a DX3 and punt it
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  Lucero9 months, 2 weeks ago #15Show comment toolsReply

  Are HDD reaching the current limits of physics? The doubling of capacity every couple of years or so by shrinking the magnetic area/bit dimensions seems to have slowed recently.
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  royals9 months, 2 weeks ago #16Show comment toolsReply

  It is better to get 2 smaller 2tb drives than 1 4tb drive for storage. Thats obvious. You would have to very stupid to disagree
  
  I was mega unlucky once when i had 3 copies of my data backed up over 3 drives. All failed in 0.5 day. Unbelievable. Had to send to one of 4 clean environments in uk at time. Had to junk most data as its costly to recover so just got critucal 300mb which cost a bargain 700.00 to recover.
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  Andi Keane9 months, 2 weeks ago #17Show comment toolsReply

  Don't drop them , they don't like it when you drop them , funny that
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  Enverex9 months, 2 weeks ago #18Show comment toolsReply

  That's a shame, if it had been the 5K4000 I'd be buying it for that alone (need a new drive for the NAS).
  
  Also, if you suddenly have multiple drives fail at the same time, then something killed them, the chance of multiple drives failing within a very short period of time as each other is less likely than you winning the lottery. Chances are your PSU did something to kill them.
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  Teh Lemur9 months, 2 weeks ago #19Show comment toolsReply

  royals

  It is better to get 2 smaller 2tb drives than 1 4tb drive for storage. Thats obvious. You would have to very stupid to disagree
  
  I was mega unlucky once when i had 3 copies of my data backed up over 3 drives. All failed in 0.5 day. Unbelievable. Had to send to one of 4 clean environments in uk at time. Had to junk most data as its costly to recover so just got critucal 300mb which cost a bargain 700.00 to recover.

  
  
  If you had 3 drives fail in 3 separate locations, you're the unluckiest man on the planet. If you had all three drives in one system then that hardly qualifies as "backups", and you've got a bit of a nerve to call anyone buying a 4TB hard drive "very stupid". :)
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  EMM3869 months, 2 weeks ago #20Show comment toolsReply

  I 'believe' the DX3s available at ebuyer for £178 has the 5K4000.
  
  I've yet to crack mine open to confirm but will be in the not too distant future

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