Cynthetiq

What amazes me about this is not so much the size of the drive, but really the other numbers they mention, like 400 hours of standard TV vs. 45 hours of HD TV.

Looks like my Tivo is going to have to get upgraded to at least 1.5Tb just to get like 80+ hours.


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Jack Ruby

Well. That's a lot of bytes.

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spived2

Dammit. I just bought a 200gig hard drive just a few days ago, and now It's already outdated

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Redjake

don't worry, it's not outdated. just because a new hard drive is bigger, doesn't mean yours is worse off.

when the hydrogen atom-hard drives come out than store bites on molecules of hydrogen, then you are in big trouble. petabytes baby, petabytes.

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feelgood

Wtf you gonna do with all those amount of spaces?? All I have is some games, mods, homework shits, few movies, music, tv shows, etc...they don't even take up 60 GB!

And of course there's pron

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santafe5000

Lots of PORN!!!!

I would never use that much HD space in my entire life. I couldn't think of that much stuff to save. I guess if you did a lot of Video stuff, you could use it.

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sailor

Man thats great. I cant afford it, but I can still drool. Im thinking about putting that much storage in my next machine, but it wont be all on one drive...

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sixate

Too bad I only buy Western Digital.

shakran

Yup. That's what I said in 1995 when I got my first 1.5 gig drive after using a 200mb drive for years. That sentiment lasted about 3 months, then I had to get a second hard drive

viper11885

I read that same article today morning and was suprised at how large it was. I wonder when they will become mainstream

Infernal

Damn 400-Gigabyte!! so how much is it? is it out yet?

Redjake

I used to be like you once! Then I bit the bullet and bought two Maxtors and a Seagate, and they all run as good (if not better) than any of my Western Digitals have. I guess it just depends on your luck of the game (i.e. hard drives crapping out on you). I suggest trying out some other brands instead of staying with Western Digital only. You are missing some great deals!

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Master Fap

the problem with big HDs liek these is that they cost more per gb that say a 80 or so.

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Redjake

Not really. It depends on what you call "big." You can get Maxtor 160 GB hard drives for about a buck per gigabyte. Same thing with 80 GB hard drives. Hell, Maxtor 250 GBs are under 250 bucks. So that makes the buck-per-gigabyte lower than a smaller hard drive.


Now SATA is another story.

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tekaweni

<b>Great!</b> This means 200gig drives just had their price slashed and its time to buy one... or two!

Stay 6 months behind the bleeding edge, folks - and halve your computing costs...

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tyndiesrntr

400gig....so what?

"LaCie has introduced a new FireWire hard drive that it claims is faster than most internal drives.
The 500GB drive employs a FireWire 800 connection to deliver a sustained throughput of 88MB per second. The company says it is ideal for video editing, VideoRAID and 2D and 3D image work.
The 7,200rpm drive has an 8MB data buffer and uses the full functionality of the OXFW912 bridge chip, to maximise performance. Two drives can be configured together to provide 1TB of storage with transfer rates over 150MB/sec.
The LaCie Big Disk Dual FireWire 500GB drive costs £389 (ex. VAT)."

merlin

haha, you can never really be the top in computer technology. there's always something out there that's better than yours the moment you buy it.
i think the size depends on what you need it for. i dunno what my friend does, but he said his 80gb was way too small and that he kept filling it up. so he bought a 200gb. i'm using a 80gb and i've hardly used 30 gigs.

Latch

You don't have a link to any info about that.. do you? That sounds really cool

Edit: woohoo.. this is my 500th post on the new board

Redjake

Saw it in Wired or something a while back, I'm sure you can find info if you google it....

They aren't anywhere near completion, just in the pre-alpha-beta-anything stage right now. But they say within the next 10 years they will be produced.

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thephuse

lol... i thought that was a joke... are you serious with that "hydrogen-atom hdd"?

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oh yeah, definitely. they are developing the technology right now to turn off "switches" with molecules of hydrogen.......basically I or O. Think about it....what's I and O? Binary! What's data? Just a bunch of binary shit Nanotechnology and its most useful application

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bltzkriegmcanon

Yeah, nanotechnology is up-and-coming, but I just want a damn codec. I'll not buy a cell phone until I get one that can be installed in my ear and broadcasts through the small bones of my ear, so only I can hear it. Yes, I WILL kneel down behind several large crates everytime it rings.

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propaganda

That broadcasting sound through small bones in your ear is perfect for your avatar. Its actually the first time I've ever heard about people doing that was through Metel Gear Solid

About the HDD, that is a hell of a lot of porn to fill that up... Even if you had a lot of videos I doubt it can fill it all up.

woodhead

You can actually fit real girls in HDs that big.

Cynthetiq

famous last words...

HD porn will only be 45 hours on that thing... mmmm HD porn...

losthellhound

*counting on fingers*

wow, thats alot of porn

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BoCo

Ditto. Besides, I prefer multiple dirves to hit those large numbers. That way when one drive dies (if that ever happens) you don't lose *all* your stuff.

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slimpi66y

back in 1999, two days before I was set to defend my PH.D thesis (on human civilization), I read in the PC Mag that the Seagate Barracuda has reached 9GB (8868mb), I thought to myself you will never need to buy another hard drive, and I can store every picture that's ever taken on one single device, which will further my research...

soccerchamp76

High-definition porn......interesting concept especially as the consumer market for HD-cams are opening up with JVC offering one for a low price of $3k+

I have a 40 gig HDD and I like to keep it low at around 20-30 gigs full, i have program files/music/and TV shows/movies to fill it up. Movies i gotta delete as they are the big space hoggers.

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slant eyes

hydrogen hd's? didn't we have a blimp filled with hydrogen that kinda went 'kaboom!'?

especially with all the electricity running through that computer, you think it's that safe? puts a new light on power surges and static when working on your computer doesn't it?

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I think that's shortsighted. In the last 15 years, I've seen all manufacturers (including your beloved WD) rise and fall in terms of quality, space, and performance, relative to the others.

5 years ago, IBM used to make the best in both SCSI and IDE. Now people shy away from Hitachi because of the fabled DeathStar. It used to be like that for WD too, in the mid 1990s. Since then they've steadily improved.

Of course, I have a 210MB WD disk still in use at home in a DHCP/proxy server. Original manufacture date: 1991.

And nowadays I buy Maxtor/Quantum SCSI and WD IDE. But I reevaluate the brand choices once a year just to make sure the drives last and work well. I suggest that you do the same to avoid getting ripped off in the future.

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