Seagate outs first 1.5TB 2.5-inch portable hard drive

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1. September 21, 2010 1:51 PM
   

   Trillionsin said:

   Ugh, Id just hate to have 1.5TB of stuff to wind up just gone because if a drive failure... I only see a sense in smaller portable drives as all my backups are in a mirrored raid. (and thats only 500GB itself)

   I'd also like to know the real world figures... what's USB 3.0 speeds average real world figure anyways?

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2. September 21, 2010 2:46 PM
   

   en0nym0us said:

   I wouldn't pay $229 for that.

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3. September 21, 2010 4:56 PM
   

   SNGX1275, TS Special Forces, said:

   I imagine this is one of the 12.5mm 2.5" drives, so it won't work in a lot of notebooks.

   I understand the argument of having such a large drive fail, and thus you lose a lot of data at once. But really, thats how it has always been. If you want a large drive and not have it fail you have to have redundancy, and that becomes expensive. But in reality, I think on average these new drives aren't going to fail any more often than a small drive, so its no more of a risk failing, its just the amount of loss.

   So really, if you don't need 1.5TB then just stick with more than one of a smaller drive. But for some of us, being able to have more than one large drive is wanted/necessary.

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