money.cnn.com — At a San Francisco dinner on Tuesday evening, he was candid about his company's ultimate mission: "Let's face it, we're not changing the world. We're building a product that helps people buy more crap - and watch porn."
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actionablemangoDec 1, 2006
At 9.5gigs per hour for HDTV recordings, I think lots of people will need terabyte drives. Also consider there isn't a decent way to archive HDTV recordings, so you have to keep all of the shows you want to rewatch on the hard drive instead of archiving to DVD.
zatechzDec 1, 2006
Entertaining guy and Digg = Dugg
encognitoDec 2, 2006
I appreciate his candor and honesty but who needs that much porn? I like porn just as much as the next guy but when the bandwidth became fast enough to make on-line streaming porn a reality, I stopped storing the stuff. I have a 30GB HDD with 10GB of free space. I can't imagine having a 500GB HDD filled with porn. It just wouldn't be possible for me or desirable. Now, loss-less rips of CDs and DVDs from the library...
cowboy5995Dec 2, 2006
"Lets face it, what other need to people need 1 terrabyte drives for?"One single reason. Bragging rights to all my geek friends. How sweet would it be if you had a conversation like thisFriend: Hey I got a 250 gig hd at the Black Friday salesMe :Oh yeah I only have 1 single terrabyte that can barely store anything. You clearly have the better drive.
laserdiscDec 2, 2006
Nice to see a CEO I can like, and because of this interview all my future hard drive purchases, be it for personal, business or for friends will be Seagate drives.
encognitoDec 2, 2006
"Wow, a serious discussion about my porn viewing habits - I need to get help."I concur. By your own admission you are NOT normal and your pron rant confirms it. Jesus man, it's digital T&A not the secret formula to Coca-Cola. Obsessed much?
petronskiDec 2, 2006
You have 56 gigabytes of pr0n?Dude...
anon1234Dec 3, 2006
The thing is, there are people out there with MUCH bigger porn collections. Like a whole box of DVDs stashed under the bed, or many full length DVDs on their hard drive equaling several GB each. So, by comparison, my collection is probably pretty small.And another comment on the original topic at hand is that another large usage of hard drive space is CD and DVD images for games and software (mostly games). When I buy a new game and know that I'm going to be popping the CD or DVD in and out every time I want to play the game, I just go ahead and rip an image to my hard drive and then load it up with Alcohol. Doing that, you can easily surpass several 100 GB for a small collection of games.
badapplestudioDec 3, 2006
Ya, well guess what f**ker, your s**t houses all my audio files in my studio RAID! So keep making good drives or I'll be after your ass when they die dumbf**k. Of course this guy doesn't mention all the drive specifications that Seagate has pioneered. Especially in SCSI.Keep drinking your Apple'tini putz... you'll need it when they can your ass.
johnboiwaltuneDec 5, 2006
""Uh, for my mp3s. And my documents... And christmas pictures... and Unreal Tournament maps..." you respond. These things take up a grand total of 40 or 50 GB on most people's computers."Lossless DVD rips take up a lot of space (5-8GB per DVD). I also record over-the-air HD broadcasts. You can easily fill 1000GB with such things.