1TB HardDrive

[Earl Bonovich]

http://news.com.com/1-terabyte+drive+to+debut+later+this+year/2100-1015_3-6105515.html?tag=nefd.top

If it is a SATA connector... that is gonig to be one heck of a DVR upgrade...

120hrs of MPEG-2 HD
200hrs of MPEG-4 HD
900hrs of SD

[P Smith]

That was a prediction: "will likely debut in 2006"; now you can buy 2x0.75TB from Seagate for $1000+ at Fry's and go over 1 TB.

[ntexasdude]

Yeah baby!!! .....oh wait, Hitachi drives suck. I'll get chill bumps when WD comes out with one.

[Nick]

A Terabyte? -- one thousand gigabytes! That is HUGE! :eek: "While large drives start out expensive, the price drops relatively quickly.
Computer makers pay something in the 30-cent range for a gigabyte when
buying hard drives, Healy said. The price at retail is around 50 cents or less." Geez, and I remember when about a buck-a-megabyte was rule of thumb.

Happy birthday, hard drive

"On Sept. 13, the hard drive will turn 50. Hitachi and others will be on hand
to celebrate the achievement at the Computer History Museum (http://www.computerhistory.org/).

It has been a wild half century. The first magnetic drive, the RAMAC created by
IBM, weighed a ton and could hold 5MB of data on 50 24-inch circumference
platters. Now people can get a one-inch drive that can be held in your hand
that holds more than that.

"Twenty years from now, we could (potentially) squeeze a terabyte onto a one-inch drive"...then we could implant the tiny drives in our heads and stave off memory loss,
but all that whirring noise in my head would drive me nuts :D

[pjmrt]

since I have had a problem with hard drives overheating in the past, a hard drive in the head would certainly bring new meaning to "hot head"

[Earl Bonovich]

Anyone know anyone at Seagate...

As I have a certain device that would LOVE to test out a 1tb SATA drive... :)

[Bogy]

A Terabyte? -- one thousand gigabytes! That is HUGE! :eek: Geez, and I remember when about a buck-a-megabyte was rule of thumb.

...then we could implant the tiny drives in our heads and stave off memory loss,
but all that whirring noise in my head would drive me nuts :D

Nick, my first 30 meg HD cost me just over $9 a meg. When I bought my second HD, 340 meg, the price was just under the buck a megabyte.

Certainly does sound huge doesn't it? But I've been going through my "little" 225 gig drive and removing games I don't play anymore. I need to burn some DVD's with the mp3's I backed up on my drive that belong to my daughter who is currently in Kenya (you know Nick, the one who is a jerk and wasting her life, you feeble old man). I might keep some of it, but I already have a bunch of the same music on my drive, and a lot of what she has is rap and hip-hop. (:shrug: (I don't know where I went wrong with her.) :D

Between photos, mp3s, videos, and games, I had about 40 gig open out of my 225. I don't like to see my open space at less than a quarter of the "pie."

I didn't think I would ever fill up that first 30 meg drive either.

[Earl Bonovich]

I first got my self a Credit Card (from Best Buy) to by a 200MB drive for $200

The first 1GB drive I ever saw was MASSIVE (at school), cost about $1700 and was an external SCSI interface... was paried up with one of the first CD-Recorders that was also about $1500

[Neil Derryberry]

Nick, my first 30 meg HD cost me just over $9 a meg. When I bought my second HD, 340 meg, the price was just under the buck a megabyte.

Certainly does sound huge doesn't it? But I've been going through my "little" 225 gig drive and removing games I don't play anymore. I need to burn some DVD's with the mp3's I backed up on my drive that belong to my daughter who is currently in Kenya (you know Nick, the one who is a jerk and wasting her life, you feeble old man). I might keep some of it, but I already have a bunch of the same music on my drive, and a lot of what she has is rap and hip-hop. (:shrug: (I don't know where I went wrong with her.) :D

Between photos, mp3s, videos, and games, I had about 40 gig open out of my 225. I don't like to see my open space at less than a quarter of the "pie."

I didn't think I would ever fill up that first 30 meg drive either.

30 megs is huge compared to my first hdd, a 5/14 full-height Micropolis 10mb hdd!

[AllieVi]

I bought a non-hard disk IBM PC just when their first hard drive model was introduced. IIRC, the disk was 10 MB and would have added $2,000 to the price. And those were early 1980's dollars...

[Presence]

LaCie has had a 1TB hard drive on the market for over a year now. In fact, they now have a 2TB drive, even. What is the big deal here?

[Richard King]

http://www.dbstalk.com/showthread.php?t=62815

[Danny R]

LaCie has had a 1TB hard drive on the market for over a year now. In fact, they now have a 2TB drive, even. What is the big deal here?

Sorry, wrong. LaCie units are ARRAYS of mulitple drives, not a single one. Combining drives to form a larger unit has been around for a long time, but the upper limits do depend on the size of the individual drives. Having a 1TB drive will make even larger arrays possible. And of course, sometimes just a single drive is what is necessary. For upgrading DVRs and the like, the NAS storage probably won't work as easily.

I've built a couple of 5 terabyte servers using arrays of the 750gb drives that are currently out.