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CCTV operators can breathe sighs of relief. They won’t run out of space so fast as Seagate has upped the capacity of its 4TB Surveillance disk drive to 6TB. Seagate is using its 6TB drive technology, announced in April. Back then the company said the 6TB whopper could be used for centralised surveillance, and now here is the …

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  1. Ian K
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    "with up to a greater than 90 per cent success rate in data recovery"

    <Chandler Bing>Could that *be* any more non-committal?</Chandler Bing>

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: "with up to a greater than 90 per cent success rate in data recovery"

      This is a great deal for them, they'll induce paranoid people to pay for something they don't need, and the non-committal on recovery means they can limit the amount of effort they put into it to whatever the "insurance" costs. Pay $100, they'll spend a few hours trying to get data off, if it takes longer than that they'll tell you "sorry"

      Besides, who the hell needs data recovery of surveillance drives? What are the odds a drive fails just as someone breaks in?

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      1. DNTP
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        "What are the odds a drive fails just as someone breaks in?"

        Pretty damn good, if the people doing the break in are the police without a warrant or probable cause.

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