New Hard Drives Hold A Tera Byte Of Data - GoFuckYourself.com

MissMina · 04-09-2007, 06:04 PM

Wow....

Yes, you can now get a terabyte hard drive on a desktop PC. Breaking the ice with a Hitachi drive was Dell, with ?Area 51? game-oriented machines from its Alienware subsidiary. The 1T option initially costs $500.

In case you?re wondering, as printed text a terabyte would occupy 100 million reams of paper, consuming some 50,000 trees. It is enough to hold 16 days (not hours) of DVD-quality video, or a million pictures, or almost two years worth of continuous music.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/...terabyteofdata

spacedog · 04-09-2007, 06:07 PM

I want one..

Rodent · 04-09-2007, 06:18 PM

Be nice for a media pc

crockett · 04-09-2007, 06:25 PM

humm and here my 32 gig 10k raptor drive still isn't full.

RyuLion · 04-09-2007, 06:25 PM

I need one!
never mind already have a yottabyte..

notabook · 04-09-2007, 06:26 PM

Better start putting them in raids. A 1TB HD is *a lot* of data to lose if it fails.

Richardhead005 · 04-09-2007, 06:29 PM

that could hold a lot of "tera patrick" content huh?

Humpy Leftnut · 04-09-2007, 06:31 PM

I have over 2tb across my PC's here, but I think the largest drive I have is around 300gb.. 1tb is too much to trust in a single drive imo

Sosa · 04-09-2007, 06:41 PM

I filled up my laptop hd just creating thousands of galleries for a project then had to go back and delete like 3 hours of work... pissed me off. I need bigger drives!

CaroMark · 04-09-2007, 07:20 PM

We just put up dual 9.4 TB storage arrays, so man what a nice difference those size drives will make in the future.

ThreeDeviants · 04-09-2007, 07:24 PM

that's fantastic news! heh... Will make a nice sized storage array a little easier to build out...

Thanks for the news update!

Spunky · 04-09-2007, 08:12 PM

Probably take forever to defrag

rowan · 04-09-2007, 09:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by notabook

Better start putting them in raids. A 1TB HD is *a lot* of data to lose if it fails.

Most of the people buying the drive will probably not know what RAID is, or that a hard drive can and WILL fail.

rowan · 04-09-2007, 09:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ThreeDeviants

that's fantastic news! heh... Will make a nice sized storage array a little easier to build out...

And expensive.

The per gig prices for the 500Gb+ drives are insane when compared with the smaller (250-300Gb) drives.

DirtyDave · 04-09-2007, 10:45 PM

The cost per gig isn't always the deciding factor.

fewer drives create less heat
(3) 1TB drives make 2TB Raid-5 as compared to (5-6) 500GB or (7-8) 320GB drives
fewer drives take less power
fewer drives take less space
larger drives have faster data transfer
I like the 750GB Seagates and I could put 9 drives in it easy for 6TB Raid-5

David

notabook · 04-09-2007, 10:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rowan

And expensive.

The per gig prices for the 500Gb+ drives are insane when compared with the smaller (250-300Gb) drives.

The 500GB drives are just now starting to drop thankfully lol, you can get them for under 24 cents a gig without any rebates. 250GB have falen to under 20 cents a gig without rebates... good time to stock up on storage hehehe.

donkevlar · 04-10-2007, 12:02 AM

I have a 10 TB archos VR noobz

DOCTOR 30 · 04-10-2007, 12:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MissMina

Wow....

Yes, you can now get a terabyte hard drive on a desktop PC. Breaking the ice with a Hitachi drive was Dell, with ?Area 51? game-oriented machines from its Alienware subsidiary. The 1T option initially costs $500.

In case you?re wondering, as printed text a terabyte would occupy 100 million reams of paper, consuming some 50,000 trees. It is enough to hold 16 days (not hours) of DVD-quality video, or a million pictures, or almost two years worth of continuous music.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/...terabyteofdata

Goodie! However, if it's on the market, it's 5 to 10 years obsolete.

When they can get that kind of memory and multi gig or even a terabyte of processing power in something the size of a cell phone...

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