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Hitachi Breakthrough Could Mean 4TB Disks By 2011
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Geez. I can't even fill up a 200GB hard drive.
I guess I'm not trying hard enough. <selects Safari Safe Browsing...>
Yeah, my point though is not the size of the disk as much as it is the speed of read/write.
I'll be more impressed when they will give us 4TB formatted space rather than calling it a 4TB disk drive and having it be far less than they advertise. I'd love to see the industry own up to their deceit of consumers. If a car manufacturer claimed that a car got 45 miles per gallon and the actual driver couldn't get better than 30, there'd be a class action lawsuit on their hands. We just bend over and take it from the companies.
Perhaps they could make it even more fun and call it a 5TB drive. Why not a 6TB? If they can lie about the current disks being nowhere near what they label them as, you know it's only going to get worse. I could care less about their theories about size. I think it ought to be labeled ACTUAL USABLE SPACE AVAILABLE.
Perhaps they could make it even more fun and call it a 5TB drive. Why not a 6TB? If they can lie about the current disks being nowhere near what they label them as, you know it's only going to get worse. I could care less about their theories about size. I think it ought to be labeled ACTUAL USABLE SPACE AVAILABLE.
Capacity: Yeah! / Reliabilty: ????
This is great but at what cost? Will these drives be as reliable? It seems you can only make things so small before the drives would fail, dooming to lose a gargantuan amount of files.
This is great but at what cost? Will these drives be as reliable? It seems you can only make things so small before the drives would fail, dooming to lose a gargantuan amount of files.
How about every frickin' movie ever made?!
Put THAT on an
TV!I'd really like to see an upgrade in active memory vs. storage. A TB of RAM would be....wow, I can't think of the right word....
Those already exist. Go to www.dealram.com and under the flash drive menu, go to USB pen drives. There's 16 GB one for $135. There's also a 64 GB, but it's more than $5,000 so I think I'll pass on that for a while.
Ever heard of external hard drives? All Blu Ray & Co. do is prolong your optical media backup misery for another year or two. Otherwise they're just there to force yet another pointless DRM system down our throats.
Theres a difference between FILLING a 4TB drive and USING all of a 4TB drive. Some large video projects can already use in excess of 1TB while rendering and encoding. Im working on a project right now that is 9.75 hours of video in 13 segments, and am routinely using up a 500GB drive doing 45min - 1.5hr segments.
And to all those who are unimpressed by this... you shouldnt be impressed so much as look forward to it. It is hardware innovation. Dont be ignorant... the more complex software becomes, the more storage space we are going to need. Its the natural procession of technology... so bring on the 1TB (7200rpm please!) laptop drives!!
Zippity Doo Dah
I remember the 100MB Zip Drive Iomega put out in '94.
At the time, it seemed the end all, be all.
Ha... Zip... good one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_drive
I remember the 100MB Zip Drive Iomega put out in '94.
At the time, it seemed the end all, be all.
Ha... Zip... good one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_drive
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Wow, does this mean we'll see .5TB iPods sometime in the next couple years?
Wow, does this mean we'll see .5TB iPods sometime in the next couple years?
One reason why they do that is way back in the day when a kilobyte was still huge, the scientists thoght "Oh, 1024 bytes? That's close enough to 1000. No biggie." But that by now w/ terabyte drives, that's a big difference. Plus, people use base ten, computers use base 2. 1,000,000,000,000 bytes (1 terabyte) is easier to read for us than 1,125,899,906,900 bytes (a true terabyte, also known as a tebibyte or TiB).
I loved those 100MB disks when they came out. They beat the living dung out of SyQuest's crappy 44/88MB drives and were a fraction of the cost of MO-drives. But soon I grew tired of Iomega to the point that now, in retrospect, I can safely say good riddance. Wait... they still exist?
With drives of this size, backing up via Time machine or whatever method is going to become even more paramount.
Losing several GBs of priceless data sucks as it is, but can you imagine havign an almost-full 4 TB hard drive fail on you?
Losing several GBs of priceless data sucks as it is, but can you imagine havign an almost-full 4 TB hard drive fail on you?
Geez. I can't even fill up a 200GB hard drive.
I guess I'm not trying hard enough. <selects Safari Private Browsing...>
Size isn't the point; hard drives are currently the weakest link in most computers because they're slow. But they're still used because they're big, and Flash memory is really expensive for the same amount of space.
EDIT: Oops, I guess that ways already said...
It's not that big of a deal
We're living the year 2007. It's still four years to go to reach those sizes. 4Tb seems big indeed, but it won't be that huge after four years.
Remember when 1GHz processors came out? It's not that long time ago and now it's nothing.
We're living the year 2007. It's still four years to go to reach those sizes. 4Tb seems big indeed, but it won't be that huge after four years.
Remember when 1GHz processors came out? It's not that long time ago and now it's nothing.
And then it hits me - Wouldn't Time Machining 4TB of data take ~month?
You are assuming we havent had any new interface technologies come to light at that point... I would certainly hope (and forsee) that we would have faster internal and external speeds in the next couple years for home computers... as fiberchannel drives / interfaces are quite fast... but very expensive for a home user!
4God said:
i think you've hit upon the big problem with this
before this announcement we were all dreaming of a flash based laptop because of the speed of the storage with HDD's is stupifyingly slow.
now you're offered larger HDD's which will take the same speed to move files around...which means it'd take days to back up a 4TB HDD
i'll give you a choice
in 2011
- 1TB HDD laptop
- 64GB (perhaps 128GB even) Flash Memory laptop
With drives of this size, backing up via Time machine or whatever method is going to become even more paramount.
Losing several GBs of priceless data sucks as it is, but can you imagine havign an almost-full 4 TB hard drive fail on you?
Oh No! I lost my Encyclopedia Galactica!
No kidding, I plugged in a 1TB external drive about three months ago, it's already 3/4 full of video projects.
But the fact of the matter is, I could go through and clean up those projects and get it down to 1/4 TB, but just the reality of having a whole TB to breathe in is making me lazy. Like a prairie city that just spreads outwards like pee on a plate, cause we've got all the space in the world.
I know I have to get in there and clean up, because what will inevitably happen is a big rush job where I need a 1/2 TB right now, and I'll delete something important. Wouldn't be the first time.
Oh No! I lost my Encyclopedia Galactica!
Umm... the library of congress is 20TB... 4TB is the size of their DUI files and criminal records... oh, and how many times they have all been denied for a $2000 credit card...
Your encyclopedia galactica has got to be at least 1EB... but thats only theoretical... we'll never really need that much space...