http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/Jun 29th 2010 8:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/$250 is not really that good a deal. I recently bought a Rosewill dual bay case with 2 x 2 TB Samsung 32 MB cache, all for $275 after discounts from Newegg. It works great and haven't had a hiccup yet.]]>Jun 29th 2010 9:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/Jun 29th 2010 10:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/
Oh wow...we really do get Royally shafted on tech prices in the UK then. It's a good job then that G.Osbourne was thinking about the middle classes when he announced the budget...]]>Jun 29th 2010 10:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/
Yes, I need this. Badly.

But can someone recommend an ext hd for iMac that would be even better than this? Or should I just get this 3tb?]]>Jun 29th 2010 11:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/ya know... you don't have to keep all the pr0n you download.]]>Jun 29th 2010 12:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/Jun 29th 2010 12:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/
Yes I do!]]>Jun 29th 2010 12:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/I bought a WD Elements 2TB external on Amazon 2 weeks ago for $119.99 (its up to 129 now, but if you wait it'll prbly come back down, 1.5TB is 106.49), thats 4TB for $240...granted its a little bigger (or a lot if you consider that you 'd be buying 2) and taking up 2 power outlets/usb ports instead of 1, but in teams of TB/$ its a better deal]]>Jun 29th 2010 12:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/No, I don't think it will be that expensive in the UK, ive found it for £180 incl vat. ]]>Jun 29th 2010 1:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/Jun 29th 2010 2:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/Jun 29th 2010 8:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/
just get it out of that plastic case :D it's just a Sata drive anyway hooked up to a sata to usb connection :p

my god i love opening stuff up ^]]>Jun 30th 2010 5:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/Not all of us want to buy a new enclosure every time a new drive comes out.]]>Jun 29th 2010 8:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/Jun 29th 2010 8:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/You have to understand that there are some design limits that will make using drives over 2TB as a boot drive a challenge. No longer can you use a standard master boot record (MBR), instead you have to have a board that supports EFI AND Operating system that supports GUI partition tables. Currently there are very few motherboards that support this; additionally, only 64-bit versions of windows can support GPT.

Unfortunately your average consumer won't understand these limits and they will but a drive they can't use, and then complain, blame the manufacturer, and return the drive. Read more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table

There are some other workarounds to make this possible, but until EFI and GPT are widely available, manufacturers will avoid shipping drives over 2TB for fear of insanely high return rates (probably enough to cause them a net loss on the drives).]]>Jun 29th 2010 10:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/A great explanation of what's happening right now.
But I'm positive that 3+ TB SATA drives (at least enterprise raid versions) should be coming out soon. With a big fat sticker that reads "DO NOT USE AS A BOOT DRIVE WITH A NON-UEFI BIOS".]]>Jun 29th 2010 12:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/Jun 29th 2010 1:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/Jun 29th 2010 3:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/
Reread what Phil3 was asking, he was asking about the drive coming out alone, ie an internal 3.5" drive (which is exactly what is in these enclosures).

@iSmug

That is very possible and very likely, but there are still some other major limitations that have to be overcome with a raid card. For example, if you present a single 3TB drive to ESXi 4.0, it will tell you only 1TB is usable. This is thanks to them emulating the SCSI2 protocol. Luckily many cards will allow you see present a single array as separate disks, such as I had to do for my ARECA ARC-1220.]]>Jun 29th 2010 4:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/Jun 29th 2010 8:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/Jun 29th 2010 8:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/Jun 29th 2010 8:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/
How many terabytes does your stomach have?]]>Jun 29th 2010 10:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/
Better off with smaller 1TB drives till they figure out how to effectively speed up access to all the data stored on these platter based drives. Hard Drive Tech is approaching critical mass, and SSD is no where near the savior they need.]]>Jun 29th 2010 8:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/
and ssds are the savior allready. i moved to a big winhomeserver with currently 4.5tb of storage (such a 3tb drive would fit nicely without the casing), and all my pc's and laptops have small ssds.

this drive fits perfect, if you combine it with an ssd for the os, apps, and the frequent "at work" data (namely the stuff still on the desktop, unsorted)]]>Jun 29th 2010 8:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/
I don't need a fast storage drive for holding music, mp3s, videos, etc. Most of these are large streaming files, so access time and the like is really irrelevant.

This is a good price too. =)]]>Jun 29th 2010 8:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/I never thought that defragmenting a hard drive was really an issue. You can let it do its thing while you sleep. To be completely honest, The SSD that I installed in my laptop doesn't give me a noticeable speed boost than the hard drive that was factory installed in it. I don't think that average computer users would really require that kind of speed out of their drives.]]>Jun 29th 2010 12:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/
My SSDs beat out my desktop 7200rpm RAID0 array, doesnt require a RAID bios to load, and the random read benchmarks were hundreds of times faster.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2529/4313816364_b73b1557e9.jpg
Bottom right is my old last generation SSD, and you can see it woops the RAID array on the left and the single 2TB drive above it big time. Owns on bootup and app launches, and definitely noticeable. Plus its silent and uses less power and wakeup from sleep is instant. =)]]>Jun 29th 2010 4:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/Jun 29th 2010 8:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/Jun 29th 2010 8:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/Jun 29th 2010 8:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/Jun 29th 2010 9:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/What buy zettabytes when you can have exabytes?]]>Jun 29th 2010 9:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/Jun 29th 2010 10:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/Actually, a yottabyte is bigger than both a zettabye and exobyte.

@FAP FAP FAP
As I was explaining to Phil3 above, there are certain limits to partition tables that make larger drives all but impossible. Assuming you have a nice board that uses EFI (or at least a subset of EFI) and the correct OS, you would still be limited to 9.4ZB - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table.

Sorry, no yottabyte drives.

You should have used the term Yobibyte anyway, at least according to the IEC.]]>Jun 29th 2010 10:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/All those Pictures ... and videos you can put on it.
People's 'collections' are just going to get bigger and bigger.]]>Jun 29th 2010 8:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/Jun 29th 2010 8:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/Jun 29th 2010 8:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/
Why? The drive wouldn't be any faster]]>Jun 29th 2010 10:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/Jun 29th 2010 10:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/Jun 29th 2010 8:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/Four 3TB drives in RAID5 would give you 9TB of storage, if I'm not mistaken. One drive's worth of storage is lost to parity.]]>Jun 29th 2010 8:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/Jun 29th 2010 8:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/Jun 29th 2010 8:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/Jun 29th 2010 9:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/Because I don't need a redundant mirror of my DVD rips?]]>Jun 29th 2010 9:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/There now go make A PROPER BACKUP!!!
Raid does NOTHING against.
* File corruption (corrupted files just get copied over)
* Human error (deleting files by mistake)
* Catastrophic damage (someone dumps water onto the server)
* Virus' (goes to both drives)
* Software bugs that wipe out data .. (data gets deleted and the other drive mirrors the deletion.)

http://gcn.com/Blogs/Tech-Blog/2009/01/Mirroring-is-not-backup-and-backup-is-not-archiving.aspx.

Raid is good at if a drive fails and it gets you up and running right away, but all these things can still cause issues.]]>Jun 29th 2010 9:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/Jun 29th 2010 9:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/seagate-busts-out-3tb-external-hard-drive-for-250/Yes, RAID is for no loss of uptime for failure, not backups.]]>Jun 29th 2010 8:41PM