1 terrabyte hard drive

[Shades Coolray]

I saw this one Zeropiad, check it out ----> http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?id=10118

Now the question is, what could you do with it?

[c0lin]

omfg nearly $2000

i would love one of those :D lol

[taddzilla]

OMG 1 tera byte of porn.....................I mean MP3's....................no no warez.......................I mean research material. Yes thats it.

[Carrie]

damn! Anything I ever wanted to LMAO!!!

[NitnayLion]

OK dumb question time. How many Gigs is that ?
:hammered:

[taddzilla]

1000 gigs

1 kilobyte equals
10 to the 3rd power bytes

1 megabyte equals
10 to the 6th power bytes

1 gigabyte equals
10 to the 9th power bytes

1 terabyte equals
10 to the 12th power bytes

or

a friggin' sh** load

:squint:

[Cassavus]

yes...i read about this awhile back on the inquirer website. i need one of them now!

[Big Chris]

it must take it a week at least to defrag that mother. I aint ever tried to work out that amount of "research material" would fit in it but it's gotta be an absolute mountain. Don't think i'd ever fill it up

[NealT]

Originally posted by Big Chris
it must take it a week at least to defrag that mother. I aint ever tried to work out that amount of "research material" would fit in it but it's gotta be an absolute mountain. Don't think i'd ever fill it up


:rotfl:

Back in the "old days" when everything was DOS based, and programs (I remember MS Word - then known I think more like Wordstar) were only 55k or so at the most...everyone said that a 10-20 meg was HUGE and How could they fill it up.

Well, I learned how...the programmers will learn how to muck things up worse and inflate their programs with a bunch of useless code to help you fill it up, that's how...

:)

[Big Chris]

Very true. I agree but was thinking more along the lines of filling it up with Tads "research material". Would take a couple of hours to listen to it all

[Nick Madcat]

Holy sh....man with that much space I wouldnt have to get a cd duplicator. Id just burn whatever game a person wants without having to risk a few blanks.

[Wolfie]

The thing I don't like about this goes back to old saying "putting all your eggs in one basket".

We all have had harddrives crapping out on us and if some data was not backed up its bad news. Having several harddrives might be a pain sometimes, but there is no way all of them will go out on at once (knocks on wood).

You lose that terrabyte harddrive you will be screwed. Even if you have all the data backed up on disc think of the time that will take get everything back on you drive again. Not to mention how long the formatting would take.

[c0lin]

good point,

i wouldnt even attempt to defrag a drive that big lol

[Big Chris]

Originally posted by Wolfie
You lose that terrabyte harddrive you will be screwed. Even if you have all the data backed up on disc think of the time that will take get everything back on you drive again. Not to mention how long the formatting would take.


Ok so who's smart enough on here to work that out in floppy's. We gotta be talking a room full..

[Khan3962]

Ok so who's smart enough on here to work that out in floppy's. We gotta be talking a room full..
7,108,989,830.5 floppy disks to backup a 1 terrabyte harddrive. lol

[Big Chris]

OMG Khan. that's most probqably a couple of trucks full of discs at least.

[Lord_of_the_Dense]

Interesting figure. How you get it?

To my knowledge, even though they're considered 1.44 MB disks, only 1.38 MB is usable. (Only 930 GB is usable on a 1 TB drive.)

Welcome to UTC!

[Big Chris]

That's still a shed full of floppys whichever way nb you count it

[NullsRevenge]

on the site, its not a actual 1 terrabyte hard drive its 2 500gb hard drives in a RAID 0 array in a external enclosure.

The current largest single drive is 500gb. But prependicular drives have just started to ship for laptops so a single drive crossing the 1 terrabyte mark isnt that far off. maybe a year or two.

[Big Chris]

WTF is prependicular when it's at home? That's one wod i aint never heard before, or is it a typo?

[NullsRevenge]

Its a recent hard drive technology, the first product that actually uses it was only released this week so its no surprize that you havent herd of it before. It works by stacking bits of data on top of one another, allowing for high capacities, and uses less power. In current traditional drives the data is only at a single layer on the disk. Once the technology is used in desktop drives it should allow capacity of single drives to increase.

You can read the news release from the first consumer prependicular drive here which is a notebook drive which are smaller than desktop drives and usually have much smaller capacities. So even though its only 160gb that is way bigger than the typical notebook drives in consumer notebooks which are 60 or 80 GB.

http://www.seagate.com/cda/newsinfo/newsroom/releases/article/0,1121,2934,00.html