A 1 terabyte HD for home computer?

[Archae]

I mean, you any idea how much porn I can put on that? :-)

Here comes the terabyte hard drive

By Michael Kanellos

Last year, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies predicted hard-drive companies would announce 1 terabyte drives by the end of 2006. Hitachi was only off by a few days.
The company said on Thursday that it will come out with a 3.5-inch-diameter 1 terabyte drive for desktops in the first quarter, then follow up in the second quarter with 3.5-inch terabyte drives for digital video recorders, bundled with software called Audio-Visual Storage Manager for easier retrieval of data, and corporate storage systems.

The Deskstar 7K1000 will cost $399 when it comes out. That comes to about 40 cents a gigabyte. Hitachi will also come out with a similar 750GB drive. Rival Seagate Technology will come out with a 1 terabyte drive in the first half of 2007.

http://news.com.com/Here+comes+the+terabyte+hard+drive/2100-1041_3-6147409.html

[ghostsofgiants]

1. Holy crap, I want that.

[Minnesota_Lib]

2. drool

[Deja Q]

3. I'm happy with two 300GB drives hooked in tandem as a RAID-1 entity.

Especially given as I recently lost TWO large capacity hard drives. (one was for general purpose and the other was for archiving)

[TheFriendlyAnarchist]

4. I have 2 256 HD's on this machine, and our shared network machine has 2 256's, so we effectivly have

a terabyte for our home.

[thefool_wa]

5. TERABYTE!

That's, like, a BRAZILION bytes, right?

(my wife would say, "What the heck is a Jigawatt!" to this thread using her best Michael J Fox voice - its funny in my head)

[Deja Q]

6. This is a Jigawatt:

:yoiks:

[thefool_wa]

7. NICE!

Ah, fan service, the world is a better place because of it!

but that is more of a jiggle-watt :)

[Kutjara]

8. At the risk of dating myself terribly...

...I remember when I got a PC at work, way back in 1985. It came with an external "hard drive" that was a whopping 1 megabyte! I was talking to a workmate a few days later, and remember expressly saying "I can't imagine ever needing more than a megabyte of storage." In that moment, my potential as a futureologist was shot to hell.

[Robb]

9. Nice. I remember, quite distinctly, telling my parents

...that the internet should stick with email. The "web," I argued, was too damn slow to ever take off. The pictures bogged everything down. :rofl:

[Kutjara]

10. That's great! For me it never ends, though.

I've spent much of the past year telling anyone who'll listen that a product called the "Wii" will never sell. Who the hell would want to buy a game system named after piss? Of course, now that the Wii is a huge success and units are flying off the shelves, my memory of ever saying anything bad about it is becoming increasingly hazy.

In my defense, I come from a long line of bad predictors. My grandfather worked with A. V. Roe in the north of England, racing the Wright brothers to be the first to achieve heavier-than-air powered flight. The Wrights beat them, of course, and my grandfather quit the company, saying "planes will never be good for anything."

My father, who was from England, notably predicted that hamburgers would never take off there, because you couldn't "eat them with a knife and fork."

Oy vey.

[mike_c]

11. I have 300 Gb of storage on this computer-- when I was in grad school...

...only about 15 years ago I worked on a big Sun mini that had a whooping 8 Gb of storage. That's not a typo, there were no zeros behind that digit. It was actually two 4 Gb disks. I bought a brand new laptop that had 500 Mb of storage and that was pretty big for the day. And that was only 15 years ago or so.

[Pierre.Suave]

12. I am less interested in Huge HDD

and more interested in larger and cheaper flash drives.

imagine exponentially longer battery life, instant booting and program starting, and no moving parts to break.

[Rosco T.]

13. I have 6tb/raid5 on my home network server.....

10 750gb drives. Do a lot of video work.

time to make a smaller box :)

[dorktv]

14. Some guys will claim that is still not enough space.

[Pushed To The Left]

15. Sounds good! n/t

[ZombieNixon]

16. Dude, I want it.

:P