reply to post by Hyzera
It is easy to use up 4 TB ... it all has to do with what you store on it.
Microsoft sells a Media Center PC ... XP MCE 05, and the top two Vistas have Media Center. You can record tv. You can playback movies to multiple
tvs (if you have the graphics card(s)) ... So, someone who does this will purchase online movies, tv series, etc. I have over 250 GB of anime. I
have over 40 GB of music, and I still have a couple hundred CDs that haven't been touched and many backup omg music files (about 17 CDs full) that
haven't been put back on my hard drives. I have tons more DVDs to where it would be convenient to have more hard drive space. I am waiting for the
drives to get bigger, cheaper, and faster access.
By 2011, I expect at least 64 GB RAM at 4 GHz, 8-core processors at 10 GHz each, 20 TB total hard drive space, Graphics cards with 2 GB memory and 4
GHz processors, and 64-bit will be the norm and possibly 128-bit architecture will be considered (gaming systems had this YEARS ago) ... as well as
many other hardware and software upgrades to utilize it.
10 years ago I had a 333 MHz processor and 256 MB of RAM ... 3 years ago 2.2 GHz AMD 3500+ 64 bit processor 1 GB SDRAM DDR (upgradable to 4 GB) ....
currently the top tier mac (expensive) 16 GB DDR2 ECC RAM (8 x 2 GB), 3 TB Hard disk space (4 x 750 GB), 2 - 3 GHz quad-core xeon processors ... a
mean machine if you have enough to buy a car.
I don't know if I expect hard disk speeds to increase too much. 7200 rpm seems to be fine for most people, and some top end laptops/notebooks get
them. I know you can get some 10k to 15k speeds, but for the average home user, I don't think it is too necessary except for virus scanning, defrag,
or if you have a fragmented drive ... I guess 4 TB would need to spin fast then
I expect to see a big improvements in four years ... that doesn't mean they don't have better under wraps ... just like 'HDTV' ... computer
monitors have smoked 1920 x 1080 resolution for years. The only problem they have is data transfer over cable or satellite. A 1080p signal is quite
massive ... I have read upwards of 3-4.5 Gb/s.
So yeah ... TB hard drives commonplace by 2011, certainly ... most likely sooner.