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Just as I was getting ready to jump on two 6TB drives, this comes along....and so I wait a bit longer.
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Some box sets ca run in the 50-90Gb range
Man we have come a long ways,do you remember the stats on your first computer?
... which was a Burroughs B500 running at a local service bureau.
The central processor chassis was the size of one of those Suzuki SUVs and had a maximum RAM capacity (non-volatile magnetic core memory) of 19,2KB and - if you needed disk storage - another cabinet the size of a SpeedQueen laundromat washer which held a head-per-track 5MB hard disk offering 5ms average access time.
But this 'beast' was not what I was employed to program - that turned out to be an electronic accounting machine - the Burroughs E6000. The accounting machine label ensured that the operator console resembled a typewriter on steroids - 22 inch moving carriage plus two fixed printer mechanisms - one, a numeric gang printer, the other a box-writer alphanumeric printer offset by 4.1" from the LSD position of the gang printer. Memory was non-volatile magnetic core with a capacity of 400 words of 12 digits plus sign with data storage catered for via magnetic striped ledger cards as unit records.
First project was to write a complete suite of applications for the municipality of a nearby town of 100,000 inhabitants. The suite eventually comprised property tax billing, water and electricity billing, other sundry services billing, accounts receivable and accounts payable, weekly wages and monthly salaries, a general ledger plus a loan repayment schedule (amortisation on a processor with just add/subtract/multiply/divide as arithmetic functions...
A year of that and I'd been convinced to switch to sales... :)
DevillEars
A friend of mine got burnt when he ordered 2 Meg of RAM for his IBM AT clone - turned out to be vaporware.
and that's on top of the $1,300 or so that it cost (with its glorious B/W display). There wasn't originally a HD option, but later on they did offer it. Not what you would call cost effective. I'd have been better off ditching it and buying a model 30, which you could get with a 20 MB drive. Even so, I have fond memories of the 25, my first real computer. I never had one problem with it.
High rollin', baby. Followed shortly thereafter by never-ending Windows nightmares.
That reminded me I have an Osborn somewhere in my storage, I have not thought about it in years.
WD makes drives for others to incorporate into their products.Its not the drives per se; its their branded stand alone units that have/had interfacing trouble with Apple's OSX (the Mavericks version). WD units have their own software as go-between, whereas other makers do not. The glitch-on-record wiped out whole drive's data.
I lost years of digital images, which I was eventually able to retrieve most of. If I was a company, my lawyers would still be trying to make me rich via lawsuit.
With Apple about to unveil their next OS version, I advise buying another brand for the first year or so after release.
Edits: 08/27/14
I don't know what corporate decisions WD has made since I worked for 'em, but in the 80s I was in the Wafer Fab making WD proprietary devices for disc control. The first disc I remember seeing was a 40meg drive with larger along right away. This was when they Were the top drive.
The last PC I fixed for someone with a bad HD, I used a Hitatachi drive and that was NICE. I think they hooked up or were bought by IBM along that time frame. I think that was a 60 gig drive and on the small side for what was available at that time.
I don't know WHAT I'd buy today. I had bad luck with Maxtor once upon a time, my original 4gig WD lasted well and I've got a pair of seagate externals which are terrific.
Too much is never enough
Don't hold your breath. I doubt that they'll be available in the retail channel before next year.
Looks like more of Seagate's SMR technology, which means good SLOOOW. Good enough for data archiving. And music, I suppose.
For reliability's sake, I think I'd stick to drives at far less than the industry's maximum capacity. You'll note that there are no 6TB enterprise drives available yet. The technology is a little too new. Stick to 4TB drives for now.
Even those drives are a bit on the slow side comparatively. High volume read/write applications are still limited to SAS drives under 1TB.
For music storage, any of the USB 3.0 4TB drives is what I'd buy, except for Buffalo.
-Rod
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With a PAIR of drives, you could consider a RAID 0 or 1 solution.
I don't even know if this is still 'in fashion', but it may work for you?
Too much is never enough
one for music, the 2nd as back up for the 1st. Fast filling my two 4TB drives.
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