1 terabyte hard drive

But could u fill it? For those who are not sure 1 terabyte is just over 1000 gigabytes. These will probably be standard within most pc in a couple of years.

www.computeramerica.com...

thats all very dandy - but how many weeks will it take to bacup all that data?

interestingly - my 8 gig drive is just about havin trouble with larger applications now.

I fondly look back at my "commodore amiga" , and its rather excellent operating system - which would give anything mircocrap could design a run for its money - ohh lets not forget the operating system was chip based - ie pull the chip and replace with a rather inexpensive update.

mm i love my 14 gigs. 1 terabyte eh.. seems unnecessary, but your right, soon enough it will be standard with most PCs.

It is easy to fill 1 terabyte. About 5-10 years ago, first computer. "You will never fill 6 gigs, that's impossible" I now have that much in about 4 games. Not to include music, movies, pictures(bunnies!), stuff like that.

great, I am waiting for it to become sub 500 dollars. Thanks for the heads up.

When I told my son about this new terabyte, he came asked me if I knew what terabyte stand for then he said It means TERROR BITE THE hard drive, I have not clue what that means he just left laughing at my face.

I wonder why do we need such a large hard drive but then we has seen how bigger hard drives brings bigger size downloads.

I wonder if the megabytes are going to become obsolete.

it would be a good thing to make the hard drive faster too....anything higher than the fastest of 10k rpms maybe 1mil rpms

I currently have 2.3TB of personal data in storage, comprised of movies, music, games, apps, pictures and actual data.

Theres alot of people out there that work with computers all day and every day that welcome large disks like this.

A Korean friend of mine currently has 1.36 TB of Anime and manga's on DVD, while he still has about 6 TB of those video's and manga scans on harddrives and tapes.

Once everyone starts to enjoy digital media at home and stores it for future enjoyment, you'll see people needing more and more diskspace.

Modern days games and applications already come as sets of 4 to 6 disks or full DVD's. Who knows how big it will be within the next few years.

[edit on 6-9-2004 by thematrix]

I could use it.
I currently have two 120GB drives in my PC and I sometimes have to delete files to free up space.

I create ISOs of my programs and games so I have a backup if I ever lose the original. It also allows me to move the originals out of the way while still having easy access to those programs.

I have many movie files which take up quite a bit of space.
Lots of documentaries, old war cartoons, etc...

My Outlook data file is about a half a gig by itself.

It's easy to make use of the space if you have it.
Backing up is a problem though.

EDIT: I see the article is a few months old.
They have released a Bigger Disk Extreme 1.6 TeraByte, since then that is under $1,000


[edit on 6-9-2004 by AceOfBase]

Modern pc's use around 160gb, I have 2 hard drives, a 80gb and a 160gb, and i still have quit abit of room left.

But as everyone knows, TV's and computers are starting to begin the integration. and once you start recording your ts shows one hard drives that will fill them pretty quick, especially when you get HDTV, that will be a storage sucker.

But I think it will take 6-8 years till 1 terrabyte becomes the norm sold one everyday pc's.

and about the person who said that we need to make hard drives faster: Todays are aroung 7,200 or a laptop is usually sround 5,400. Not many people have 10,000 rpm ones. and NO you cant make them go 1,000,000 rpm's, that speed would destroy them into tiny shards, but if you make the disks stronger you can get them up quit high, but with faster spinning means it uses more power which produces more heat and it would also be louder.

I would like to have it but at $1100, I will pass...WOuld be nice to have to not work about space for a while. Actually I would rather have a 35GB DVD.

thematrix, I totally agree.

My job deals with massive amounts of video data and we need massive amounts of hard drive space to store it all. However for the majority of people even 1 TB is much more then they will ever need. Its the games and video data that push the PC industry to its maximum.

I wish I had a 1 terabyte hard drive wouldn't have to worry bout that part of my computer for a while.

matrix, dude, where do you have all that sat stored? on burned CD's/DVD's, external hard drives? just really that's a lot.

As software become more complex u will need more and more space but accessing the data is the hardest part as it comes down to the heat generated by the hard disk drive thats a big prob and that with chips and disk space u can only get so small before it burns itself out , but this is when we hybrid medical technoligy with computer in a sense 1 day all machines will have biological components to them as they can work far more faster and store more data ( in theory ) very soon to be fact if not in the workings

I had to find out how much a terabyte actually was and according to a line in the following article from Cnet.com "A terabyte would be equivalent to 37,000 books."



And I thought my 20 gig had all the space I ever needed.

I'm using a 160 gb hard drive right now.

It is in the human nature is get bigger and bigger and bigger to the point of extintion, this is the simple of way seeing the world from my point of view.

That's a bit depressing

It is? You mean extinction, may that is not the right word choice here, I meant to the point where we move onto different things.