1tb Drives for the masses

Hitachi have said they are releasing 1TB drives for $399!
No definite release date though…

Hitachi Jumps the CES Gun: Announces 1-Terabyte Hard Drive : Christopher Null : Yahoo! Tech

Seems silly to me… what desktop is gonna need 1TB? Not unless you download films and music and all that sort of stuff.

I dont think ive gone over 40gb yet!

Exactly… those are the only people require this much big drive. But I think there are quite a few games as well, which is very big nd requires lot of space…

I have never used Hitatchi HDD’s…nd never heard much about them…

Once i upgraded my computer i might get one of these, my 250gb hdd is full, but 116gb of programs got deleted so i got plenty of space for now..

1TB is insane, i rekon you wouldent ever need to upgrade your hdd untill the next best tech.

There really aint any games that require anyhting like that lol, the biggest game i have got is UT2K4 with its mods, it takes up 10GB.

I dnt play so many games but long time ago…around in 2003, I saw a game, cant remember the name of it. It was on 3cds and took around 3GB of space… Thats how I thought that there must be many more games which takes a hell lot of space…

Thats the same as a game from say 2000 on an 80gb drive! Back then 15gb was more than enough. It kind of says how much of an overkill this drive is.

To be honest I get worried storing loads of data on one drive. Eggs n baskets imo.

Its not overkill for me, that drive is underkill :stuck_out_tongue:

my friend and his dad, have like two servers, or more like desktops that act like media servers. They have something like a couple or so TB’s of movies and music and whatever else. I think its completely usefull. Although a raid would be a really good idea, as thats a lot of information to loose at one time

well so much for IBM saying people would never need a HDD larger than 40Mb[ot]when they first introduced the first PC’s[/ot]

lol

I installed windows vista on a 13gb partition, only had 6gb free, shows that OS’s are getting bigger, at least from MS, and programs are too :stuck_out_tongue:

I’m running low on space on my laptop HD as I dual boot and download via bittorrent in linux.

Ironically, Hitatchi took over IBM’s hard drive division…

Unlike Seagate’s CEO, I haven’t heard Hitatchi’s saying he helps people watch porn.

:slight_smile: Well, most people dont need much help when watching porn.

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I haven’t heard Hitatchi’s saying he helps people watch porn.
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i wonder why ?

Yea! exactly… I m agree with Dave:confused: