lilstewart said:Wow.
Technology these days... when will they ever just like stop and just be cool with what we have?
Not until we suceed in destroying ourselves, and THAT is inevitable!
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Not until we suceed in destroying ourselves, and THAT is inevitable!
about two years ago i read that IBM was working on an organic HD, basically meant little or no failures and seemingly unlimited space
HughJ said:
You mean well over 640kb of space?
When I were a nipper, a 1MB HD seemed ginormous. Out of my many programs, only one managed to fill all 32KB of my computer's RAM.
Today, a sqwoozleplex organic HD might seem splendiferous, but when it's actually in the shops, it'll only seem slightly looser than your aunt's pork chops.
Electro Funk said:most of my drive gets filled with music... (my own)... i spin records and produce my own music... its amazing how much space files can take up after recording a set... importing to production software... adding effects, tracking out...etc...etc...
not to mention my girl is a scrapbooking maniac.... se we have billions of pics in iPhoto... (ok, maybe not that many
Yah, I know what you mean. I edit my movies on school computers (I don't have FCP HD and they do) and depending on what I am editing I can take up to 40 GB for one movie. My latest film (Finalist in the NW Film Center's Young People's Film Festival! Yay!) was experimental and involved cutting up my movie into chunks, editing, exporting, importing, editing, and exporting several times. In the end all the clips added up to 39 or so GB, which is funny because the ultimate QT export was exactly 1GB. I suppose if I edited film on my own computer then I would need externals, and that is just me. I imagine that major studios (Pixar, lucasfilm et al) would benefit greatly from this new tech.
WOW! Just thinking about the time I was pissed I had to spend another $15 when I scratched my Pirates of the Caribean DVD. Cant even imagine what I would do if I scratched that one. :-O hehe
I still think it is funny that my small ThumbDrive is twice as large as my hard drive in my first computer and that computer was "top of the line".
Kevin
I still think it is funny that my small ThumbDrive is twice as large as my hard drive in my first computer and that computer was "top of the line".
Kevin
I can't see this as being a viable answer to storage space problems. Perpendicular recording methods seem to be more promising. Why? Well the same reason nothing has killed the iPod yet. Normal hard drives are just easier. You don't have to worry about buying new hardware to support it and you're familiar with the ins and outs. I don't see magnetic recording dieing out until we really hit our heads on the ceiling and make the biggest possible HDD, but still not have enough space.
In the meantime, for all your storage needs, just get one of these.
In the meantime, for all your storage needs, just get one of these.