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I'll take four, please!

750GB!  That's ridiculous!  I could store my entire pr0n FTP collection on two striped drives without ever breaking a sweat!

These are the first commercially-available drives to use perpindicular storage, which gives them a ridiculously fast access time.  At 4.16ms, they're faster than Western Digital's Raptor drives.

Pat, if you were to take a stab in the dark, how much space do you think you would need to store your DVD's on hard drives?

-b0b
(...could make a 2.25TB RAID array with only four of those.)

Well ok

Figure I have 1,015 movies and let's max it out at 702 megs per.  Now let's not count TV shows or Anime that takes up more than one disk.

1015 X 702 = 712,530 megs total.  So maybe just one of those drives give or take just for the above stated.

Right?

X

• 702MB Per Movie * 1,015 Movies = 712,530MB Total
  
• 712,530MB Total / 1,024MB Per GB = 695.83GB Total

That would *almost* fit on a single 750GB disc, but you have to remember that you'll lose 8-10% of total disc capacit when you formate, or approximately 60-75GB for those drives.

As a minimum, I'd recommend chaining three of them together in a limited RAID 5 array.  That'd give you 1,365GB of usable storage after formatting...

• 750GB Per Drive * (3 Total Drives - 1 Redundant Drive)= 1,500GB Total
  
• 1,500GB Total * 0.91 Usable Percent After Formatting = 1,365GB Usable

That'd give you the ability to survive a drive failure.  If you bought hot-swapping bays, you could even swap out the dead drive live.

-b0b
(...w00ts!)