[Cialug] Big Disks

[Nick Fox]

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I would tend to disagree here. I have been running the same 1TB HDD in
my MythTV master system for more than 2 years and the system has no heat
issues or problems with the disk.

On the similar note, I have 2.25TB of total storage in my MythTV system
and it is 98% full...actually looking at adding more disk :)

- -Nick

Nathan C. Smith wrote:
> On the one hand, your price per megabyte is often lower on the larger disks.
> 
> My experience is that disks larger than about 300 GB need extra cooling and will reasonably last about 3 years before flaking out. (Samsung, Seagate consumer hard drives)
> 
> I can only speak from my experience but go with the lower capacity for longevity.  If space is not a requirement the new Intel SSDs are making a big splash for speed.
> 
> -Nate
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of Todd Walton
> Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2010 8:32 AM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Subject: [Cialug] Big Disks
> 
> Looking at hard drive prices...  You can get 1 TB for $80!  But what
> would you use that much space for?  I have a 300 GB drive with 1) all
> my data, 2) a couple hundred digital camera pictures, 3) a couple
> hundred low/average quality mp3s, 4) 10 or 12 almost-DVD quality full
> length movie mpgs.  And I haven't filled my 300 GB.  I know it's
> accepted wisdom that one can never have too much disk space, but,
> really, what would I use a terabyte for at home?
> 
> Side-by-side disk backups?  You wouldn't be buying much protection.
> Multiple OSs?  I suppose you could install 30 or 40 different Unix
> distributions for the heck of it.  Serious hobbyist videography is a
> reasonable scenario.  Run Solaris and set ZFS to remember everything.
> Virtual machine snapshots. Sup8r l33t 500gigz swap holyw0wfast!
> 
> The situations in which you'd really use a terabyte seem scarce.  But
> what can the extra space hurt, right?  Well I don't know, are there
> any drawbacks to larger hard drive sizes?  You certainly would want to
> partition it.  Isn't there some statistic about hard drive error rate
> going up as hard drive space increases?
> 
> --
> Todd
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Nick Fox

Fox Media Systems, LLC
Owner / President
1338 57th St.
Des Moines, IA 50311
www.foxmediasystems.com
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