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| Thread ID: 118369 | 2011-06-01 10:46:00 | WD releases 4TB drive! | Paul.Cov (425) | PC World Chat |
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| 1206176 | 2011-06-01 22:19:00 | My first hard drive was for my atari st, it was a stand alone unit and larger than many of todays entire pc's and was a whopping 32M. It had to be partitioned into 3 drives because the ST could only address 16M at a time. After getting it set up it happily sat there basically unused for the rest of it's life. Atari games almost all had to run from the floppy and would not install on it. I think by the time I scrapped it a few years later I'd managed to half fill one partition with a text based rpg, a few of my own programs, a database of my record collection, and the few games that would run from it. I recall it cost me $1000 second hand. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1206177 | 2011-06-01 22:32:00 | Heh, I remember when the parents upgraded to XP (shortly after it came out) and upgrading to a 60gb hard drive. I remember laughing at the amount of free space and wondering how on earth I could ever even attempt to fill it up. Now I look at my x2 1tb (full)hdds and eyeing up this 4tb beast :D |
Bozo (8540) | ||
| 1206178 | 2011-06-01 22:57:00 | It seems crazy that HDDs are getting this big when it isn't really required by the majority of people. At least 80% of the computers we get in the workshop here don't even have more than about 1/4 to 2/3s of the space used on an 80GB drive. We get a few that have tons of music and photos so around 100GB used on a 160GB HDD. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 1206179 | 2011-06-01 23:05:00 | My first hard drive in 1987 was a huge 10 megabytes. The computer salesman told me that I would never fill it. Those drives would be in 5.25" full height too. Windows used to be able to run on just one 5.25" floppy ... |
SKT174 (1319) | ||
| 1206180 | 2011-06-01 23:13:00 | Those drives would be in 5.25" full height too. Windows used to be able to run on just one 5.25" floppy ... Way back then the computer was DOS based. My next computer, a few years later had Windows 3.11 I think I still have the old drives stored away in my container. |
Bobh (5192) | ||
| 1206181 | 2011-06-01 23:35:00 | And did you? I haven't filled my 250GB yet............ Mine was a 20mb in 1989 and I was always trying to squeeze a bit more room out of it. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 1206182 | 2011-06-02 00:15:00 | Not actually a 4TB drive though is it, rather 2x 2TB . A single 4TB drive would be much more impressive, as it is, this is just boring . |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1206183 | 2011-06-02 00:21:00 | My 1Tb media player only has 200Gb free now need to upgrade to 2TB or maybe 3TB if the prices come down now My other two pcs have 500Gb OS drives, and 1TB back drives (nearly full) |
Gobe1 (6290) | ||
| 1206184 | 2011-06-02 00:33:00 | Needed for all those HD Movies that we record on our TiVo ;) The built-in 320GB just isn't quite enough ... | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1206185 | 2011-06-02 01:09:00 | Last time I read about large capacity HDD's I thought windows was unable address more than 2tb of space on a single drive, maybe they have patched it :D Still, 4TB, HELL YEAH!!! |
The Error Guy (14052) | ||
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