itwire.com.au — It will also be enough to store 6,144 50 GB Blu-ray discs. That would be hundreds of thousands of standard DVD discs, millions upon millions of CDs and probably billions of photos. There are concerns about losing 300 TB of data to a hard drive crash and Defragging tools had better dramatically speed up, or a defrag might take days
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kahnzaJan 4, 2007
I'd like to see Microsoft die. That way the industry is forced to replace windows as the most widely used OS. A highly advanced and evolved form of linux would be nice. I may be a linux newb, but I think something is gonna happen in the linux community in the next 3-5 years that will make it a MUCH better alternative for the masses.
vulcaniusJan 4, 2007
Yeah, 300TB will be amazingly useless when were still running at 7200 RPMs... companies need to quit worrying about capacity and worry about response time and bus speeds.
jmontana66Jan 4, 2007
Hmm. This article from the same site back in September says Seagate will be shipping 2.5 TB drives in 2009.<a class="user" href="http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/5664/1095/">http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/5664/1095/</a>They're gonna go from 2.5 TB to 300 TB in a year?Even if it's really 37 TB as was pointed out earlier ... that's still a huge leap.
Closed AccountJan 4, 2007
Space isn't an issue anymore. The issue is that HDDs die too often. In a year I lost 4 of my 10 band new HDDs.Western Digital, Seagate. They should have a higher lifetime.
bmdmbphd001Jan 4, 2007
I think the title is wrong, its not 300TB, even yet, you don't do defragmentations once HDs become so large and fast, there's just no need.
sshanafeJan 5, 2007
www.kaleidescape.comYou can never get enough space in these things.
lumbageSep 24, 2008
BOOYAH!