news.zdnet.com — Desktop hard drives holding 1 terabyte, or 1,000 gigabytes, of storage will likely debut in 2006 according to Hitachi. Meanwhile, the HD will turn 50 on Sept. 13th. The first magnetic drive, the RAMAC created by IBM, weighed a ton and could hold 5MB of data on 50 24-inch circumference platters.
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i440Aug 15, 2006
Finally, computers will truly be "Vista ready".
fusionedAug 15, 2006
um..yeah not the first 1TB HD. LaCie and several other companies have done 1TB disks already.
josegutzAug 15, 2006
I 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....
briancarnellAug 15, 2006
Lacie 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.
aeropheAug 15, 2006
Who needs all of that in one drive. I mean come on, that is why there are multiple ide cables and sata ports. get a life.
Closed AccountAug 15, 2006
yeah...Newsgroups and cheggit.net FTW :D
jasonnAug 15, 2006
This 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.
Closed AccountAug 15, 2006
so 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
shananraAug 16, 2006
As far as failures go, I just use a RAID5 setup an be happy. I haven't had one fail yet, but if I do, then I'm still safe. (provided that only one fails at a time, though with only four drives in the array, a double failure seems unlikely)
gt35rAug 16, 2006
One Petabyte is probably 10-15yrs away, theoreticaly.
turoAug 16, 2006
i was very happy to use three disks of 250GB ... now i will no be happy again until i get three terabyte disks (and all managed as a single volume! cool!)
brianmostAug 21, 2006
1TB + Leopard's Time MachineVideo rips aside, I could see keeping every file in Time Machine's history for the next decade.