Am looking for a new HD or two for my desktop, and this caught my eye:-

Desktop 3.5" SATA
6Gb/s Hard Drives

FROM
£42.95 (£51.54 inc VAT)

http://bit.ly/GzEPz3

And yes, it does appear to be 6Gb.

Am I missing something?

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On Tuesday, October 1, 2013 2:47:51 PM UTC+1, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
Am looking for a new HD or two for my desktop, and this caught my eye:-



Desktop 3.5" SATA

6Gb/s Hard Drives



FROM

£42.95 (£51.54 inc VAT)



http://bit.ly/GzEPz3



And yes, it does appear to be 6Gb.



Am I missing something?



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So if the data transfer rate is 6Gb/s - what is their capacity?

On Tuesday, October 1, 2013 2:53:35 PM UTC+1, Phil wrote:
On Tuesday, October 1, 2013 2:47:51 PM UTC+1, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

Am looking for a new HD or two for my desktop, and this caught my eye:-







Desktop 3.5" SATA



6Gb/s Hard Drives







FROM



£42.95 (£51.54 inc VAT)







http://bit.ly/GzEPz3







And yes, it does appear to be 6Gb.







Am I missing something?







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So if the data transfer rate is 6Gb/s - what is their capacity?

Ah - I see - 1Tb

In article ,
Phil wrote:
On Tuesday, October 1, 2013 2:47:51 PM UTC+1, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
Am looking for a new HD or two for my desktop, and this caught my
eye:-

Desktop 3.5" SATA
6Gb/s Hard Drives
FROM
£42.95 (£51.54 inc VAT)

http://bit.ly/GzEPz3

And yes, it does appear to be 6Gb.
Am I missing something?


So if the data transfer rate is 6Gb/s - what is their capacity?

Ah - so that's what it refers to.

BTW, what on earth is your newsreader? It seems seriously broken.

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On 01/10/13 16:12, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Phil wrote:
On Tuesday, October 1, 2013 2:47:51 PM UTC+1, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
Am looking for a new HD or two for my desktop, and this caught my
eye:-

Desktop 3.5" SATA
6Gb/s Hard Drives
FROM
£42.95 (£51.54 inc VAT)

http://bit.ly/GzEPz3

And yes, it does appear to be 6Gb.
Am I missing something?


So if the data transfer rate is 6Gb/s - what is their capacity?

Ah - so that's what it refers to.

BTW, what on earth is your newsreader? It seems seriously broken.

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On 01/10/2013 14:47, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
Am looking for a new HD or two for my desktop, and this caught my eye:-

Desktop 3.5" SATA
6Gb/s Hard Drives

FROM
£42.95 (£51.54 inc VAT)

http://bit.ly/GzEPz3

And yes, it does appear to be 6Gb.

Am I missing something?


It seems to be the going rate. EBuyer do it for £49.98 inc VAT.

It's SATA III so you won't get 6Gb unless your motherboard supports it.

Another Dave

On 01/10/2013 16:11 Another Dave wrote:

On 01/10/2013 14:47, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
Am looking for a new HD or two for my desktop, and this caught my eye:-

Desktop 3.5" SATA
6Gb/s Hard Drives

FROM
£42.95 (£51.54 inc VAT)

http://bit.ly/GzEPz3

And yes, it does appear to be 6Gb.

Am I missing something?


It seems to be the going rate. EBuyer do it for £49.98 inc VAT.

£47.84 at www.cclonline.com

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On 01/10/13 16:47, F wrote:
On 01/10/2013 16:11 Another Dave wrote:

On 01/10/2013 14:47, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
Am looking for a new HD or two for my desktop, and this caught my eye:-

Desktop 3.5" SATA
6Gb/s Hard Drives

FROM
£42.95 (£51.54 inc VAT)

http://bit.ly/GzEPz3

And yes, it does appear to be 6Gb.

Am I missing something?


It seems to be the going rate. EBuyer do it for £49.98 inc VAT.

£47.84 at www.cclonline.com

My supplier is always 15% more than the cheapest. OTOH he has never
failed to take back something shagged but under guraantee without
quibbling, and the last hard disk replacement came with free
installation and testing..



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lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the
members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are
rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a
diminishing number of producers.

On 01/10/2013 16:52, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 01/10/13 16:47, F wrote:
On 01/10/2013 16:11 Another Dave wrote:

On 01/10/2013 14:47, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
Am looking for a new HD or two for my desktop, and this caught my eye:-

Desktop 3.5" SATA
6Gb/s Hard Drives

FROM
£42.95 (£51.54 inc VAT)

http://bit.ly/GzEPz3

And yes, it does appear to be 6Gb.

Am I missing something?


It seems to be the going rate. EBuyer do it for £49.98 inc VAT.

£47.84 at www.cclonline.com

My supplier is always 15% more than the cheapest. OTOH he has never
failed to take back something shagged but under guraantee without
quibbling, and the last hard disk replacement came with free
installation and testing..




You use ebuyer too?
Maybe not as they only satisfy the always replace it without quibble clause.

On Tue, 01 Oct 2013 18:58:36 +0100, dennis@home wrote:

On 01/10/2013 16:52, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 01/10/13 16:47, F wrote:
On 01/10/2013 16:11 Another Dave wrote:

On 01/10/2013 14:47, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
Am looking for a new HD or two for my desktop, and this caught my
eye:-

Desktop 3.5" SATA 6Gb/s Hard Drives

FROM £42.95 (£51.54 inc VAT)

http://bit.ly/GzEPz3

And yes, it does appear to be 6Gb.

Am I missing something?


It seems to be the going rate. EBuyer do it for £49.98 inc VAT.

£47.84 at www.cclonline.com

My supplier is always 15% more than the cheapest. OTOH he has never
failed to take back something shagged but under guraantee without
quibbling, and the last hard disk replacement came with free
installation and testing..




You use ebuyer too?
Maybe not as they only satisfy the always replace it without quibble
clause.

Don't even do that.

On 01/10/13 14:47, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
Am looking for a new HD or two for my desktop, and this caught my eye:-

Desktop 3.5" SATA
6Gb/s Hard Drives

FROM
£42.95 (£51.54 inc VAT)

http://bit.ly/GzEPz3

And yes, it does appear to be 6Gb.

6Gb/s

thats the data transfer rate

Thats what a seagate barracuda on SATA does these days if the computer
can handle it.



Am I missing something?



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rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a
diminishing number of producers.

I'm getting worried about these big drives, where the heck do you back them
up and how long does it take.
Is two and raid the answer still?

Brian

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...
Am looking for a new HD or two for my desktop, and this caught my eye:-

Desktop 3.5" SATA
6Gb/s Hard Drives

FROM
£42.95 (£51.54 inc VAT)

http://bit.ly/GzEPz3

And yes, it does appear to be 6Gb.

Am I missing something?

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In article ,
Brian Gaff wrote:
I'm getting worried about these big drives, where the heck do you back them
up and how long does it take.
Is two and raid the answer still?

RAID isn't backup...

but yeah, two drives mirrored helps protect against disk failure. Beware
exotic controllers though - if that goes pop you have two drives you can't
access. Not sure how much of an issue that is these days.

Ideally you would be able to just use either drive if you suffer a failure.

If possible, raid and then backup to a 3rd drive that's offline (or even
better, offsite)

Darren

Brian Gaff wrote:

I'm getting worried about these big drives, where the heck do you back them
up and how long does it take.
Is two and raid the answer still?

RAID isn't a backup, if one gets corrupted or accidentally deleted the
other immediately follows suit.

On 01/10/2013 20:20, Brian Gaff wrote:
I'm getting worried about these big drives, where the heck do you back them
up and how long does it take.
Is two and raid the answer still?

Brian


That has never been the answer.

What happens when the PSU blows both up, or someone steals it or you
drop it on the floor or have a flood or a fire.

As a backup strategy raid is cr@p.

On 01/10/13 20:20, Brian Gaff wrote:
I'm getting worried about these big drives, where the heck do you back them
up and how long does it take.

well forme, its a networked srver, and I simply mirror one disk to the
other using rsync, which only backs up the days changes, under CRON
takes about ten minutes at 5 a.m.

Is two and raid the answer still?

RAID is avialability, not backup.
Ideally backup should be on a different machine at a different location.


Brian



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On Tue, 01 Oct 2013 20:20:56 +0100, Brian Gaff wrote:

I'm getting worried about these big drives, where the heck do you back
them up and how long does it take.

Now calculate the average unrecoverable error probability by the capacity
of the drive... It gets horribly close to one.

RAID's very nice. Until the controller goes titsup.

On 02/10/2013 08:06, Huge wrote:
On 2013-10-01, Adrian wrote:
On Tue, 01 Oct 2013 20:20:56 +0100, Brian Gaff wrote:

I'm getting worried about these big drives, where the heck do you back
them up and how long does it take.

Now calculate the average unrecoverable error probability by the capacity
of the drive... It gets horribly close to one.

RAID's very nice. Until the controller goes titsup.

Which is why I prefer software RAID.



So you prefer a solution where other drivers and even application
software can make it go tits up?

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writes
I'm getting worried about these big drives, where the heck do you back them
up and how long does it take.

In my case I backup to an external drive (when I get a roundtuit it will
become a small NAS an live elsewhere on the network) and online with
Crashplan.

Intial backups may take sometime (esp. online with slow upload speeds),
but after that only new data is backed up (I've no idea how long it
takes, as it all happens automatically)
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