New Hard Drives Hold A Tera Byte Of Data
 

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

I want one.. :)

Be nice for a media pc :)

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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

Thanks for the news update!

Probably take forever to defrag

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

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

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

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.

I have a 10 TB archos VR noobz

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...