That is a big Hard Drive

[sidd finch]

Hard drives might take a back seat to SSD's when it comes to sex appeal, but when it comes to space on the cheap, Seagate’s BarraCuda line will turn heads. Seagate on Tuesday announced two new BarraCuda drives—one of which now holds the record for being the largest-capacity 2.5-inch drive. The BarraCuda ST5000 pushes the capacity limit from the previous 4TB to 5TB, and will be priced around $85. Seagate says the drive uses the company’s 1TB-per-platter design that it unveiled at CES in January 2016. The same drive is also available in 4TB and 3TB models. All are 5,400rpm drives with 128MB of cache and a two-year warranty. Power consumption is rated at 2.1 watts under load and 1.1 watts

Sidd

[Peru]

That's a lot of data to lose in the event of a failure.

[sidd finch]

True but at $85 dollars it might make sense to have a couple so you have a backup of a backup.

Sidd

[Peru]

Yes, but it might take a couple of days to restore the data.

[RJ Johnston]

I have a Seagate 7 (seven) TB Backup external USB 3.0 drive with backups of backups. Bought that off Amazon, but it wasn't cheap. I've had it several months now. I think I might need another one soon.

[Chuck Engels]

I will not get a drive larger than 2TB right now. I would rather have 10 drives and lose one than have 2 huge drives and lose 1. I have backups of backups all on drives of 1 and 2 TB

[Peru]

I will not get a drive larger than 2TB right now. I would rather have 10 drives and lose one than have 2 huge drives and lose 1. I have backups of backups all on drives of 1 and 2 TB

Me, too.

[Chris B]

That's not a lot of data
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6822178997
That's a lot of data
(Seagate IronWolf ST10000VN0004 10TB 256MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Hard Drive)
About 715 Mini DV Tapes or 15,625 CDs or nearly 7 million 3.5" Floppy disks.

[Chuck Engels]

Seagate's 60TB Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) SSD on the other hand opts for the familiar HDD 3.5-inch form factor. The company says that its drive has "twice the density and four times the capacity" of Samsung's PM1633a, and is capable of holding up to 400 million photos or 12,000 movies.

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/08/ ... ard-drive/

[Chris B]

I will not get a drive larger than 2TB right now. I would rather have 10 drives and lose one than have 2 huge drives and lose 1. I have backups of backups all on drives of 1 and 2 TB

Hmm - Hope my maths is right - So if you have 10 1TB drives or 2 5TB drives and the MTBF on both is the same (drive I quoted above is 1 million hours). That MTBF translates to an AFR (annualised failure rate) of 0.87% per year. (http://www.zdnet.com/article/mtbf-afr-and-you/)

Therefore in one year you have a 1.74% chance of one of the 5TB drives failing and about an 8.7% chance of one of the 1TB drives failing.
In three years you have about a 5.2% chance of one of your 5TB drives failing - or 26% (one in four) of one of your 1TB drives failing.

You may loose less data - but it is 5 times more likely to happen.

[RJ Johnston]

With the Seagate 7 TB USB3.0 drive, if the drive fails during the first year, Seagate will recover the data from the drive. That insurance cost me about $10.00.

[Peru]

With the Seagate 7 TB USB3.0 drive, if the drive fails during the first year, Seagate will recover the data from the drive.

...if it is recoverable.

[Peru]

That's not a lot of data
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6822178997
That's a lot of data
(Seagate IronWolf ST10000VN0004 10TB 256MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Hard Drive)
About 715 Mini DV Tapes or 15,625 CDs or nearly 7 million 3.5" Floppy disks.

Limit 10 per customer

Darn.

[RJ Johnston]

...if it is recoverable.

Those were Seagates exact words.