I used to bitch like hell about my Mac fileserver's 300 Meg discs then a Gig could be got. Hewlett Packard disc array's 1 Gig discs when 4's and 9's were available retail. Then at Sun's 9Gigs when 18's and 36's came out. Or NetAppliance's 72's when 200's were available or now putting in 300 Gigabyte discs when there are terabyte ones.

Eventually I saw the pattern. The storage vendors are always behind the curve. While we geeks are salivating over the newest shiny stuff they're fitting last years gear, or even the year before's. Because they can have confidence it works.

I'd judge today that if you're running 300 Gig FC or SCSI or 750 Gig SATA and find you need more space the answer probably isn't bigger discs but more discs. Maybe a year or 18 months down the line the 1Tb beauties will be bedded in well enough to be trustworthy.

Matthew

Just to let everyone know....Just got back online yesterday. I was in a situation for the last 16 days, where I was lucky if I got 10 min or net time everyone other day. When I got home a box was from Seagate was waiting for me. There was one minor problem that was easy to fix but the drive works and everything is still in place. ). Seagate made a mirror copy of the drive just case something happened to the drive on the way home, and they gave me 2 weeks to check out the drive. Knowing that I would not be able to look at it tell past that I was able to contact them and explain the situation they gave me an extension tell April 18th....I am very pleased at this point.