1TB, 1.5TB, 2TB... Does Anyone Want More?
 

Our today’s review is going to talk about the recently released hard disk drive models with 375GB and 500GB per platter data density. We are going to introduce to you the new dual-platter Seagate 7200.2 with 1TB storage capacity, 1.5TB Seagate 7200.11 and the today’s capacity leader – 2TB Western Digital Caviar Green.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/sto...-2tb-hdds.html

yes please! give me 50Tb disks please, put 3-4 of them in RAID5 and you got plenty of storage, for the time being, for all your data, fault tolerant .

Is there a single platter 500 GB drive?

yes:)
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/storage..._2TB_HDDs.html

If I have 50TB of data I wouldn't risk it on a RAID 5. I'd want 2-disk redundancy or better, offsite redundancy... way to much data to leave to chance (or Intel's worthless software RAID).

please explain how RAID5 is "risky"? :)

When one disk fails, a RAID 5 array is at risk. If anything should happen to a second disk before the array was rebuilt, all data would be lost. Chances are slim, yes, but would you gamble with 50TB of data?

Also, imagine how long it would take to rebuild a 50TB array. ;)

put 5 of them in RAID 5, with 2 hot spares, problem solved;)

Or 6 in RAID 10 with 1 hot spare. :)

and use a PCIe dedicated raid card of course :)
€200-300