Seagate Releases World’s First 3TB Hard Disk Drive

[danrok]

See front page:
Seagate Releases World?s First 3TB Hard Disk Drive

Comments?

[Daniel ~]

You could fit my house on one of those!!

[cloasters]

I better buy one, I'd use 300Gb of it!

[booman]

All I know is 3000 Gigs of data is a lot to loose when it dies.
I can't imaging using or even loosing that much data.
My server uses two 150 Gig drives and they are not even full

[danrok]

I have about 1TB of my own photos now, I can imagine that'll be about 3TB in a year or so.

It's useful to have the lot on HD, as well as burned to DVD for back-up.

I could probably use a blu-ray burner as well, to make backing up easier and quicker.

[booman]

it would be better for you to use a 3TB drive for a backup. I bet that would take 24hrs to back up.
that is a lot of photos. What Resolutions and files sizes do you work with on photos?
Do you use JPG or TIFF?

[danrok]

I shoot RAW + JPEG @ 10 mega-pixels, but have a new body on the way which is 18 mega-pixels, and does HD video. So, no doubt I'll have a load of video filling up my drive as well.

[booman]

ah, RAW... I forgot about that. Is RAW as uncompressed as TIF?
Yeah, HD videos is totally going to fill up your capacities.
Do you have a good audio system for sound?

[danrok]

RAW is the data directly from the CMOS sensor, and contains more information than a TIFF file would.

I'll most likely buy a mic at some point.

[booman]

ah, gotcha. I have never messed with RAW because I don't do professional photography, but its nice to know something is higher quality that a TIF.
Let me know if you need some help choosing a microphone.
I have recorded instruments and have some knowledge of microphones.
Are you going to use a portable digital audio system?

[donnaj8887]

What's up everyone, I'm new to the forum and just wanted to say hey. Hopefully I posted this in the right section!

[Daniel ~]

Welcome donnaj8887!

Happy you introduced yourself! I hope to see you posting any where you like! ":O}