I just purchased a 28TB hard drive for $230. It would have taken 5.6 million of these IBM 350 units to equal that.
To put it into perspective, that would be more than 2 football fields in height, width, and depth (725ft³). And buying all of those units would have cost $896 billion in 1956. Adjusted for inflation that’s $10.48 trillion.
I mistyped. It was $330 and it’s a manufacturer recertified drive with a 2 year warranty and was only spinning for 3 hours and spun up 4 times. So I don’t plan on it failing for awhile. I’ll eventually buy more in the future so they can be configured for RAID.
I just lost a 12TB Toshiba X300 that was mere months out of its 2 year warranty. Never spin up a single drive! They will always make you wish you mirrored, one day.
RAID is still no replacement for a backup. Single drives are fine as long as you have automated backups and can handle the interruption when someone goes wrong.
I just purchased a 28TB hard drive for $230. It would have taken 5.6 million of these IBM 350 units to equal that.
To put it into perspective, that would be more than 2 football fields in height, width, and depth (725ft³). And buying all of those units would have cost $896 billion in 1956. Adjusted for inflation that’s $10.48 trillion.
Don’t trust that drive.
I mistyped. It was $330 and it’s a manufacturer recertified drive with a 2 year warranty and was only spinning for 3 hours and spun up 4 times. So I don’t plan on it failing for awhile. I’ll eventually buy more in the future so they can be configured for RAID.
I just lost a 12TB Toshiba X300 that was mere months out of its 2 year warranty. Never spin up a single drive! They will always make you wish you mirrored, one day.
RAID is still no replacement for a backup. Single drives are fine as long as you have automated backups and can handle the interruption when someone goes wrong.
!remindme 1 year 10 months
where you get that deal??
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