1TB harddrive coming out

[JPMNICK]

http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/04/17/hitachi_7k1000_terabyte_hard_drive/

The next gen hardrive is coming sooner than later, and it holds an amazing 1TB of stuff. that is 1 Terabyte, or 1000GB's.

I think as soon as this comes out I will be getting 2, putting them in an old computer I have and making it a full backup PC for all of my computers, where i do full weekly backups of everything I have on every computer. Storage is so cheap now, why not!

How much hard drive space to you currently have in your home setup, and how much of it do you use?

I have around 1.1TB spread across 4 computers that run all the time. I would estimate that I have around 750GB of data on my machines now, but at least 100GB is backup material.

[Crippler]

My laptop is only 80gb, but I have a 500gb external with about 120gb used space.

I've been getting emails from Buy.com with 1tb externals for a few months now...but I never really paid much attention to them, they may have been marked as "coming soon."

[johnniewalker]

The advances in storage have to be the story of the 21st century in technology. Flash mem and the overall capacity are going to be the things to revolutionize computing. A tb is massive.

[JPMNICK]

The advances in storage have to be the story of the 21st century in technology. Flash mem and the overall capacity are going to be the things to revolutionize computing. A tb is massive.

I agree, hard drive space was not keeping up with the increasing speed of processors in a linear fashion.

most mother board support 4 hard drives, which a home user could have 4TB of space available to them. i think this will become more important as home users start to intergrate their computers into the living room. recording a show in highdef takes about 25GB an hour, and if you have the computer hooked up to your 50inch LCD screen, you can watch it playback in perfect HD.

[Death Metal Moe]

It's gonna take 2 fucking days to defrag.

[PapaBear]

In my main comp, I have a 200 and an 80. I have a few other comps that each have 80.

[MrPink]

Does a regular music, porn, and movie downloader need that much room?

[JPMNICK]

Does a regular music, porn, and movie downloader need that much room?

depends on how much you download. the average 1/2 TV show is about 250MB and the average movie is about 700, once they are compressed.

[Crippler]

Does a regular music, porn, and movie downloader need that much room?

Sure you do...especially if you're a real go-getter.

Seriously, though, if you're downloading iso's (non-copywritten material of course) to burn DVDs, they're usually 3-4 gigs each. It's amazing how quick you can fill a basic 40-80 gig drive with music, movies, & smut. Especially since high speed access is becoming the standard, not the exception. It's just too easy.

[MrPink]

I guess I need to download shit more often.

[JustJon]

most mother board support 4 hard drives, which a home user could have 4TB of space available to them.

That's a Ham n' Egger PATA user talking. Real men use SATA.

[ChimneyFish]

http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/04/17/hitachi_7k1000_terabyte_hard_drive/

The next gen hardrive is coming sooner than later, and it holds an amazing 1TB of stuff. that is 1 Terabyte, or 1000GB's.

I think as soon as this comes out I will be getting 2, putting them in an old computer I have and making it a full backup PC for all of my computers, where i do full weekly backups of everything I have on every computer. Storage is so cheap now, why not!

How much hard drive space to you currently have in your home setup, and how much of it do you use?

I have around 1.1TB spread across 4 computers that run all the time. I would estimate that I have around 750GB of data on my machines now, but at least 100GB is backup material.



Are you by any chance planning to take over the world????

[JPMNICK]

That's a Ham n' Egger PATA user talking. Real men use SATA.

HAHA, I think this harddrive only comes in SATA. but I thought most dell motherboards that support SATA only have room for 4 drives total

[JPMNICK]

Are you by any chance planning to take over the world????

the ball is already rolling my friend.

step 3 was get named forum mod on rf.net. onto step 4 now

[JustJon]

HAHA, I think this harddrive only comes in SATA. but I thought most dell motherboards that support SATA only have room for 4 drives total

First problem: You use dell.

[ChimneyFish]

the ball is already rolling my friend.

step 3 was get named forum mod on rf.net. onto step 4 now



Are taking applications for minions????:lol:

[Death Metal Moe]

1TB harddrive coming out

"The Community" knew for years before it came out.

[JPMNICK]

First problem: You use dell.

not me my friend, all customs in my house. but most users on here i would assume have a branded PC

[furie]

Just 1TB?

[Wallower]

A Tampa Bay hard drive? Someone tell Fez!

[MadMatt]

It's gonna take 2 fucking days to defrag.

Especially if you are using the Vista "Background" defrag. "Smart file structure" my ass.

And if any of you F@#$ers post an Apple I'll thrash the lot of ya...

EDIT: Do you realize how massive that storage capacity is? The first hard drive was created in 1956 (by IBM) and was a whopping 5MB. Now we have drives that are 200000 X's larger. Amazing.

[TheRealEddie]

What? 20 replies and no gay reference regarding the hard drive "coming out"? Must be a slow week... :laugh:

[Wallower]

What? 20 replies and no gay reference regarding the hard drive "coming out"? Must be a slow week... :laugh:

Look closer at post #17.

[Mike Teacher]

Are you by any chance planning to take over the world????

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You'd be amazed at how data heavy some things are.

Music: Recording with Pro Tools, hell even just recording wav files at a high sampling rate will eat megabytes per second and more.

Photos: Just took photos of a band for their group shots; 4GB shot. On off days I shoot only a couple hundred pics, but thats still a shitload of memory at 5-10MB per picture.

Four 500 GB drives; about a half dozen 100-300 GB drives, and I'm still deleting what I think I dont need anymore and shuffling data around like mad. It really really sucks finding stuff in the ocean of bits.

[JPMNICK]

Are you by any chance planning to take over the world????

=

You'd be amazed at how data heavy some things are.

Music: Recording with Pro Tools, hell even just recording wav files at a high sampling rate will eat megabytes per second and more.

Photos: Just took photos of a band for their group shots; 4GB shot. On off days I shoot only a couple hundred pics, but thats still a shitload of memory at 5-10MB per picture.

Four 500 GB drives; about a half dozen 100-300 GB drives, and I'm still deleting what I think I dont need anymore and shuffling data around like mad. It really really sucks finding stuff in the ocean of bits.

windows really needs a much better search built into it. i was hoping WinFS would be ready with Vista, but it wasn't. I will not upgrade XP until the OS has WinFS built in and working.

[PapaBear]

Photos: Just took photos of a band for their group shots; 4GB shot. On off days I shoot only a couple hundred pics, but thats still a shitload of memory at 5-10MB per picture
This is one of my issues when I scan negatives or slides. I like to save unfixed and uncompressed files of each for archival purposes, but EACH image can be upwards 40MB.

[reeshy]

"The Community" knew for years before it came out.

The Gay Community?????