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| Thread ID: 75764 | 2007-01-09 15:41:00 | 1 TB Desktop HDD? | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
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| 514275 | 2007-01-09 15:41:00 | On September 13, 1956, IBM uncrated the RAMAC -- the world's first hard disk. It was 5 feet square, weighed a full ton and stored just 5 megabytes of data -- barely enough to hold a single song in MP3 format. "It was about the size of two large refrigerators" and "about as tall as a person stands," observers said of the RAMAC. That's something to think about today in light of Hitachi's announcement Thursday of a 1-terabyte hard disk drive. Just 3.5-inches in diameter, the drive -- Hitachi's first to use perpendicular recording, a technique which arranges bits in upright position on the disk so they require far less space -- can hold about 330,000 3MB photos or 250,000 MP3s. The article (blogs.siliconvalley.com) |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 514276 | 2007-01-09 16:08:00 | Rats...missed the edit timetable. My thoughts are that a HDD of this size will really slow down data gathering and access speeds. Any thoughts about this? Also, now with all that room for the general population, there's gonna be a lot more info available for hackers to attack and outload from poorly protected puters. I see a bigger mess and more easily lost critical information and identities. |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 514277 | 2007-01-09 17:55:00 | And what do you use for a backup of 1TB of data? :horrified | CYaBro (73) | ||
| 514278 | 2007-01-09 18:00:00 | Rats...missed the edit timetable. My thoughts are that a HDD of this size will really slow down data gathering and access speeds. Any thoughts about this? Also, now with all that room for the general population, there's gonna be a lot more info available for hackers to attack and outload from poorly protected puters. I see a bigger mess and more easily lost critical information and identities. Not with a rumoured Zettabyte file storeage system set up on something like Linux or OS X, on Windows you could have a lot of grief for sure. Terabyte RAID settups are currently available for the desktop and are relatively affordable for the home user for just under $1,000 I think. |
winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 514279 | 2007-01-09 19:02:00 | And what do you use for a backup of 1TB of data? :horrified How about another 1TB HD?:confused: |
brig (1359) | ||
| 514280 | 2007-01-09 19:30:00 | A few years on, use a 20TB hard drive. :D Seems my HP Pavilion having just 1GB is a bit old (its 15GB HDD was dead) |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 514281 | 2007-01-09 20:38:00 | 1TeraByte RAID systems are already available and in use. | winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 514282 | 2007-01-09 22:42:00 | How about another 1TB HD?:confused:Or maybe processed dead trees??? :p :D | johcar (6283) | ||
| 514283 | 2007-01-10 01:31:00 | Harddrives are already at 700Gig, using existing technology. I think the only thing about this HDD is that its the first TB Harddrive. | noone (22) | ||
| 514284 | 2007-01-10 01:54:00 | Harddrives are already at 700Gig, using existing technology. I think the only thing about this HDD is that its the first TB Harddrive.1 TB HDD? I can't really wait but shortage of cash that's all. I don't think my HDD can hold anymore data now for 400GB+ maybe I should get another HDD soon. :D Internet have created humans to share files around the world. So small GB HDD won't be enough. hehe, its all thanks to internet. | PedalSlammer (8511) | ||
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