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- PeterBassett, on 10/12/2007, -1/+24Which is actually 2 drives in 1 enclosure...
- i440, on 10/12/2007, -7/+25Finally, computers will truly be "Vista ready".
- JeremyBanks, on 10/12/2007, -6/+23The metrix prefix tera- is 1000x as large as the prefix giga-. Many chose to use different words to represent binary prefixes.
1000GB (Gigabyte) = 1TB (Terabyte)
1024GiB (Gibibyte) = TiB (Tebibyte)
See Wikipedia for more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix#Approximate_ratios_between_binary_and_decimal_prefixes - nTensify, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17Oh boy, here we go..
Under the /Metric/ System, it should, but because humans are used to bits being a binary system, using binary metrics it should equal 1024GB. Someone devised a (rather ridiculous) system of differentiation using GiB meaning 1024MiB (and so on and so forth), but it's yet to attain wide adoption, and frankly, I like GB better.
But, it's true that manufacturers of hard drives are being ***** in not giving us those extra few bytes per drive and evening everything out. Hell, they could have just increased the diameter of the disks ever so slightly (or decreased the size of the spindle allowing for the disk to be of the same diameter, but with a smaller central hole) to accompany the change, and it's doubtful anyone would ever know the difference. - gosix, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17Crap, you beat me to the submission. (Wow, I did a search before a submit? How novel!). The slide show, "A brief history of hard drives" is great.
http://content.zdnet.com/2348-9584_22-6031405-1.html?tag=nl - GorGenator, on 10/12/2007, -4/+18I thought it was HDD, as in Hard Disc Drive. HD makes it dound like High Definition..
- Lorian, on 10/12/2007, -16/+281000GB != 1TB
- Flipino, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14"1000GB ought to be enough for anybody"
- Gir53457, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12How long until we celebrate the 50Th birthday of solid state flash drives?
- burnt1ce85, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9I feel like a kid again when i thought 1GB hard drives were huge.
- drybij, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Back in my day, a big hard drive was thirty megabytes! And we liked it!!!
Kids these days! - graystar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9I remember when the 100MB hard drive came out, and it was like awesome. Then the 1GB. Now 1TB...geesh, all we need now are bigger tubes to our houses to fill it.
- Jugalator, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12"1000GB != 1TB"
Actually it is, *especially* in the world of hard drives. Don't even try to argue otherwise, it's pointless and you'll have an entire hard drive market against you, along with five or six TiB geeks. ;-) - brstilson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8But just think of how many internets you could store with one!
- scheper, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8"In December 1998 the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), "
They set it all the way back then and it's still not widely adopted. I think I know why: MiB sucks. Nobody's going to say Mebibytes because it sounds awful, and typing it is even worse: shift-M, lowercase i, Shift-B every time you want to use it. They should abbreviate it to mbb or tbb instead.
But even then I doubt it'll ever take off. When I say a megabyte, I mean exactly 1,048,576 bytes, and not a byte less. - ahhell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+71000GB Hitachi drive. God damn that is a scary thought.
That's a hell of a lot of data to lose when that drive goes ***** up. - maninblac1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I think we should bring back the 5.25" HDD, if we put 3.5" technology we could easily increase storage capacity, increasing the platter size would double if not more the storage capacity. I'm sure people would consent to using a 5.25" bay if they could get 1.5TB+ in a single drive.
- Flipino, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Sometime after 2034.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_memory#History - EochaidRiata, on 10/12/2007, -0/+51000GB by 2006, I guess IBM's projection in 2000 was fairly accurate.
http://www.storagereview.com/guideImages/z_ibm_storageevolution.gif - BeerLover, on 10/12/2007, -0/+31TB?
doesnt matter, we will still fill them within a month! - DWatch, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Who needs all that space? Lol, you must be new to computers.
There are a lot of places where this can be useful today, even if the average home users wont need it for a few years. How about a Hi-def Tivo for one? Businesses, governments, ISP's, Google, database admins, etc. There are lots of applications outside of your narrow view of a computer as being a 'intarweb thingie'.
Every time there is a major jump in hard drive size, there have always been uses for it, and they have been gobbled up, making the cost-per-unit lower in a couple of years, driving the prices down so the OEM integrator and average home user can afford to put them in desktops. Not long after that, novel uses or new media types make all that space seem small. This has been going on since I started using PC's back in the '80's. - josegutz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I remember when 1 gigabyte drives were coming out. Everyone was thinking it was ridiculously too much HDD saying things like "We'll never fill that up". Ohh? Really? So look at us now, a 1 gig drive is like an ancient artifact now in this age of a growing media demand. Now we have HD video, higher rez pictures, and collections of entire music albums. Games are getting more defined and require more space as well. Heck I remember when quake was like 70 mb to install. So more space is never too much space....
- SoundScape, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Yeah I was about to say the same thing.
Not to pick nits... - brstilson, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7"Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /guideImages/z_ibm_storageevolution.gif on this server.
Apache/2.0.46 (Red Hat) Server at www.storagereview.com Port 80" - sweetnjguy29, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3@Hiker:
*****, we are being scammed. If I walk into a store to buy a HD, I don't get to see inside the box before I buy it! The disclosure is after the fact. I have to look at the hard drive itself. This is similar to the shrink wrapped license issue, where the contractual terms and conditions can only be read and accepted by the consumer after opening the product!
If I go into a store to buy a special backpacking water purifier that advertises on the carton that it will treat 1000 gallons of water, but the insert inside the filter says "only safe for use for 998 gallons" have I been ripped off? Yes. - McMultiverse, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Honestly, I would want a single 1TB drive - you know, that whole eggs in one basket thing. Heck, only buying one 500GB makes me kind of antsy. I'd rather get two 250GB drives instead of a 500GB one, so that I can have some kind of redundancy. Personally, 1TB drives won't be a blip on my radar until I can pick up two of them affordably.
That being said, imagine all the porn you could fit on a 1TB drive! - LilGator, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3It's just balking at Digg being the referrer to the graphic ... click the link (Forbidden) then hit refresh...
- sonnysavage, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Why is brstilson being dugg down? I want to see the image, and I get the same error he posted. Does anyone have a working link? I did a site search and couldn't locate the graphic.
- TransmitThis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2your gonna need another one to back it up to.
Then you will end up filling that second one with all your tv series divx;s
So then you will need 4TB so you can raid all your data, I still want more. . . . .lol - compbuilder00, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3so much pron........... drools
- wordsofwisedumb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Personally those comments scare me when I think of the power the person who first said them has.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1so one Petabyte is theoretically 50 more years away........?? or what....
I remember my first computer that my parents bought me... I opted for the gi-norumus 768mb harddrive that was some $250 extra - GT35R, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1One Petabyte is probably 10-15yrs away, theoreticaly.
- echo1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+130 gig is'nt even considered large for an iPod.
how times have changed - brianmost, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11TB + Leopard's Time Machine
Video rips aside, I could see keeping every file in Time Machine's history for the next decade. - digitaldivider, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1so much space. wonder what the seek time would be on it.
- LilGator, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What does MiB/GiB/TiB actually stand for, and what industry are they used in ?
- sonnysavage, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Weird as hell...
If you visit the page with the graphic:
http://www.storagereview.com/guide2000/ref/hdd/hist.html
it shows up on the page, and the link to the image suddenly starts working:
http://www.storagereview.com/guideImages/z_ibm_storageevolution.gif
(figured it out too late to edit my first post) - briancarnell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I always wonder about the people who always say, "no one really needs an [insert # here] mb/gb/tb hard drive."
Honestly, my home storage needs won't really be met until they start releasing cheap petabytes HDs. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1yeah...
Newsgroups and cheggit.net FTW :D - vern01, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Nice step in the right direction, but I am still dissatisfied. I wont be happy until I can have 20+ Terabytes on my desktop!
- briancarnell, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Lacie doesn't make a 1TB drive. What it does is stick two 500gb drives in a single enclosure.
This is a bit like saying 1TB drives are not big deal since I've got 4TB in a NAS. - MrPhelps, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Check this :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix#IEC_standard_prefixes - CyberGlitch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I agree with McMultiverse.
The bigger they are, the harder they fall. Harddrives fail, would you rather lose all your data or half of it?
Another issue to consider is how fast data can be transfered from that terabyte HD. Having two harddrives instead will generally mean that twice as much data can be transfered. - bmirks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+150 years already! Insane. It seems like just yesterday I was out buying my first 40 MB drive for my XT.
- maninblac1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1AHAAAA, that's great, and true too.
- macslut, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Well affordability aside, the great news about this is that it's going to be 1TB in a single unit. I *always* pair my drives. So with the new Mac Pro instead of having 1TB of available storage (4x500GB / 2), I can have twice as much. Same is true with my portable drive, and that's a *lot* of video and music.
And to others, yes, I know this advancement is to be expected, but it's the 50th birthday and all...very cool to think about how such a short time ago 100GB seemed massive...or when 100MB was.
And as for the capacity accuracy nazis...we're so far beyond actually tangible measurements. The marketing measurement has become the standard and is pretty consistent across vendor. - Jasonn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This isn't exactly new news. I mean, with the advancements in perpendicular recording, it has been promised to us for awhile now that high-capacity drives would be coming soon. Seagate's 750GB Barracuda 7200.10 drive, however, is one of the very few drives utuilizing the technology as of today.
Dugg regardless, though, since the thought of 1 TiB and higher drives are very desirable. - MrPhelps, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Well, with GB vs GiB units there is a 7.4% difference, with TB vs TiB there is almost 10% difference. I think it's worth mentioning that you'll get at most ~930GiB once you've formatted your new 1TB drive.
- Hiker, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1That's very interesting. Where I am, if *I* go and buy a HDD it's never boxed (not in ANY stores I've ever bought a HDD from). The drives are always unpackaged in front of me so they can take down the serial number in case the drive needs to be replaced. I didn't even KNOW HDDs were sold boxed til I read your comment (even when I've ordered drives online they've never EVER EVER been boxed)
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