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- Bulk70, on 10/25/2007, -4/+68Perfect! This will really help grow my por.. uh I mean torr.. uh, no sorry.. word document collection! Yes, thats it...
- LR2_, on 10/17/2007, -5/+35Give me affordable solid-state memory please.
- inactive, on 10/20/2007, -0/+22Windows has detected an improper shutdown.
One of your disks needs to be checked for consistency.
Estimated time remaining: 316 days 11 hours 43 minutes - Avocadoes, on 10/16/2007, -0/+21http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N8 ...
- guardianx, on 10/19/2007, -4/+24bring it on
- WhereAmI, on 10/16/2007, -0/+16Well he never said cheap...
- srodolff, on 10/16/2007, -0/+14I met a guy at a computer store while browsing external hard drives. He glances at a 1TB drive and says..."That's too much storage". I turn to him and with a deadpan stare say "There is no such thing as too much storage."
My only concern is what will be the actual usable space on a 4 tb drive? (God! I hate the naming convention of drives.) - BlackKnight6, on 10/16/2007, -1/+14Don't know why you are digging him down. Solid-state drives are really damn cool, especially for gamers. The write times are somewhat slower but the read time and latency performance is amazing (Not to mention less power consumption, 0 noise operation, and much more reliable since there are no mechanical parts). Operating system boots way faster, all programs (games with 1-2GB of stuff to load these days) even load faster. For servers they aren't the best, only a web server that is calling random blocks to be read from, not writing. Check the article below, its really amazing the performance. However, 32GB for 400 bucks is lame. I want affordable 160-300GB solid-state drives rather than 4TB mechanical drives.
http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/08/13/flash_based ... - boredsam, on 10/16/2007, -1/+13PCWorld says 2009, CNN says 2011:
http://money.cnn.com/2007/10/14/news/companies/hit ...
Someone's fact checking dept messed up. - inactive, on 10/16/2007, -3/+14I'd be waay more interested in news regarding a "faster" form of storage.. Thats something EVERYONE could use and benefit from, 4TB+ storage is only useful to a very small niche of the computer world. All that aside, it's still pretty impressive.
- oilcan, on 10/16/2007, -10/+20'Yeah, just what I want. 2MB of information lost when the drive crashes.'
fixed for 1996. - aadnk, on 10/16/2007, -0/+9Buy two and use RAID.
- loganhid, on 10/16/2007, -0/+8wake up
- Holosiren, on 10/16/2007, -1/+9You are aware that people who say "A ****byte? Who would ever need that much space? Ha ha ha!" usually end up looking like morons.
- samuelmcm, on 10/16/2007, -2/+10imagine formatting those bad boys...
- PhantomZmoove, on 10/16/2007, -0/+8I've seen 720p episodes of TV shows around 1.04 gig.
- aceallways, on 10/17/2007, -1/+8here you go:
4 000 000 000 000 / 1024 =
3 906 250 000 / 1024 =
3 814 697 / 1024 =
3725 / 1024 =
~3.64 TB (90.9%) - ScionX, on 10/16/2007, -9/+15Yea, just what I want. 4TB of information lost when the drive crashes.
- Xizer, on 10/16/2007, -1/+72 GB was standard in 1996, not 2 MB. A true nerd would know that. Why the ***** are so many people digging this guy up?
- ubergeek09, on 10/16/2007, -0/+5In the future we may need that much storage, because media files (HD movies and the like) will take up much more space than they do now.
- plizard, on 10/16/2007, -0/+5it's 2011 - http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071015-hita ...
- underthelinux, on 10/15/2007, -0/+4EXT4 is already in development phases, i think it might even be available for use (alpha-use). I saw a comparison chart of ZFS, XFS, and Ext4 a while back. Don't worry, the Linux dudes won't disappoint.
- wush, on 10/16/2007, -2/+64TB. (not 4TiB)
- Xizer, on 10/16/2007, -1/+5.
- Compukid, on 10/16/2007, -0/+4I have a Media center PC and this would be great.
- aogail, on 10/19/2007, -0/+4Someone needs to experience a real filesystem.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS - RadiatedAnt, on 10/16/2007, -2/+5I already have just over 2TB on my desktop, with hard drives becoming so damn cheap 4 500gb sata II drives cost you 430 dollars today. Not too shabby for 2TB. I still remember orgazaming over an 8gb hdd a long long time ago... ahh Medallion...
- oilcan, on 10/16/2007, -0/+3they are digging me up, because even though my number was a magnitude off, I was making a very good parody of the original poster, and the very solid (apparently too subtle for you?) point that his argument is a rehashed worthless thing that has no meaning but to detract from the evolution of computing storage. storage space will always increase, and if you don't mirror or back up your data you can lose it, no matter how little or much of it is. this has never been news and should not be considered a valid point to ever bring up in slandering the advent of larger hard drives. Does this help clarify things for you?
- agilligan, on 10/15/2007, -0/+3BBC News also says 2011.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7044606.stm - Jacob, on 10/16/2007, -3/+5about 900 HD movies if you get the ***** quality ones. CTU averages like 4.4 gigs each movie. TV shows like heroes are 1.4 gigs for the ***** quality.
- mooninite, on 10/16/2007, -1/+3EXT3 won't be used in 2011. EXT4 and XFS will be the main file systems of choice.
EXT4 - 1 exabyte
XFS - 8 exabytes
The "Linux dudes" are way ahead of you. - spritom, on 10/16/2007, -0/+2Can I put in a vote for 2008?
- UKeTommyV, on 10/16/2007, -0/+1great , how about the price? im sure as hell i dont need 4tb and im sure as hell im not paying 1000 bucks
- jkharris07, on 10/16/2007, -0/+1I think I'll just wait to see how much these will go for. Lets all pray they are affordable.
- jsantos17, on 10/16/2007, -0/+1There is where self-checking file systems como to play, suchs as ZFS
- ToadLeg, on 10/19/2007, -4/+5You don't have to defrag a modern Linux/Unix/BSD/GNU/Mac/other operating system. Get a new operating system that came out after 1995 and it should be alright. Only older file systems have the fragmentation problem. The newer file systems space the files out so that they don't usually fragment. I recommend a Linux Distribution called Linux Mint, version 3.1, "Celina", that came out just this month. It's Ubuntu, except it comes with a lot of stuff you need to install after installing Ubuntu (for example, MP3 and other codecs and Flash plugin) as well as a bunch of extras. This is especially good for beginners who may not know how to install those things. You can get it here: http://www.linuxmint.com/
- Ouze, on 10/15/2007, -0/+1some guy said 3.2 formatted, but I think it might be as much as 3.7 formatted. Not sure how it scales, but a 1tb gives 932 useable in NTFS, so 932*4=3.7. Kinda a big diff, 500gb. But again, dunno how it scales.
- bjornski, on 10/15/2007, -0/+1I remember when my dad brought home our first IBM XT with a 15MB (yes, megabytes) HD. His first comment was "We'll never fill that....."
- Aaronraw, on 10/15/2007, -0/+1One-word question "Latency"? Small, Fast, and that much storage, don't usually go together. If you look at Laptop Hard drives you are hard pressed to find a one that is greater than 200GB and is just 7200rpm let alone 10k-15k. If you want fast and capacity, well, you're stuck with a 3.5". If they can get those drives that small AND bring the latency down to a reasonable level (9-12ms Avg seek/write time) I will look for that in a laptop or anything other than a portable HD.
- cliquee, on 10/16/2007, -0/+1simply awesome..
- malcolmlo, on 10/17/2007, -2/+33.2TB of useable space.
- glitchbit, on 10/23/2007, -0/+1I am coming close to filling up my 1TB... actually I already have if I was to ever try and transfer my other remaining 500gb to it. By the time 2011 comes around I will be needing so much more than a petty 4TB of space >
- lobasuu, on 10/16/2007, -0/+1I think 2008 is more probable. I mean, we already have 1TB drives, why the hell do they need extra 4 years for getting 4?
- glitchbit, on 10/23/2007, -0/+1Actually Access Speeds Goes Up Due to Data being More Dense, Unless you have too many platters in your Drive.
- objectcode, on 10/15/2007, -0/+1ofcourse
- MonkeyFit, on 10/15/2007, -0/+1I wonder if they'll give us a cool animation to explain this new technology like they did before.
http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/research/recording_h ... - foxhoundadmin, on 10/17/2007, -0/+1that's plain ol' sata. i said FAST! i'm still holding out for sata ii (3.0 gbps) ssds.
- inactive, on 10/15/2007, -0/+1Good luck backing up 4TB every night.
- chrismgtis, on 10/16/2007, -0/+1That is exactly what I said. Obviously it will become a standard later on.
The point is most diggers are too ignorant to realize that they won't have 4TB on their desktop that early. Unless they have plenty of money to throw around. - spritom, on 10/15/2007, -0/+1Seems like there's never enough drive space...
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