Terabyte at home here I come.

[llama_beans]

http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/04/17/ ... index.html

I'm thinking 3 of them in a raid 5 at home should take care of my needs for a while.

[regis]

Damn that is sick!!



Personally I'd rather wait until they have solid state hard drives. No more moving parts, no more head crashes!

[l3eeron]

holy smokes!!!


I remember hearing about the 1TB drive years ago, its finally here! w00t I love new technology =)


I cant even imagine why someone would need 1,000 gigs tho. Maybe some hardcore dvd-ripper? IDK

[gator]

[quote="l3eeron";p="23106"]
I cant even imagine why someone would need 1,000 gigs tho. Maybe some hardcore dvd-ripper? IDK[/quote]

Possibly that. Another thing would be HD video. One hour of recorded HDTV is around 8GB.

SSD would be nice for a laptop - the capacity may take some time to ramp up quickly and be affordable for more consumer uses though.

[Gen.Ben]

[quote="gator";p="23112"]
[quote="l3eeron";p="23106"]
I cant even imagine why someone would need 1,000 gigs tho. Maybe some hardcore dvd-ripper? IDK[/quote]

Possibly that. Another thing would be HD video. One hour of recorded HDTV is around 8GB.

SSD would be nice for a laptop - the capacity may take some time to ramp up quickly and be affordable for more consumer uses though.
[/quote]

Yeah some of the newer TVs you can even sync them with a media center PC, then your PC acts as a Tivo, and it can record HD. I probally can see in 20 years that 1TB will equal about 1GB in todays standards. Terrabyte games and what not.

[Raptor]

Wow, Terabyte games, can't wait to see the install times on those babies. But yeah, if hard drives become like today's but instead of GB we have TB, programs can actually become much bigger and have all the things people need, without real worry about size. A TB game would have an insane amount of space to work on graphics and dynamics.

[Willie Busserhimen]

imagine the defrag on those sum'butches.


"why would someone NEED it"
---people said the same thing when Gigs were in the 40's.... then before that when a gig was alot...

[=TeZ=]

How would the cost compare to a stack of dual-layer blank dvds? I'll bet it's cheaper. I'm thinking I could throw a copy of Darwin streaming server on my old comp and make a wireless HD on-demand system (for the neighborhood LOL).