1 Terabyte A Reality

LaCie, a PC peripherals manufacturer, announced the release date of it's 1 TeraByte "Bigger Disk" external hard disk drive.

The "Bigger Disk" product line already consists of 320GB, 400GB, and 500GB external models. The price for 320GB HDD is $399.99, 400GB HDD is $479.00, and for the 500GB model is $579.00. The price for the 1000GB or 1TeraByte model drive has been set at $1200.00. This is the first external hard drive that will feature 1000GB of storage space.

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Still a bit pricey for personal home use but I will get my hands on one sooner than later.

#142103

Good news, but how many people have 1000GB of data, or are even close? The only thing that could ever really need that kind of space is a server, and this range looks like it's aimed mainly at the home user. I'm not saying these sort of products are a bad thing, I just don't see much of a use for them.

#142137

holy s*** :woot: , thats amazing, i want one , not even close to affording it though , anyway thats awsome, great news, Really shows how much technology is advancing

#142146

Yeah, I'm doing fine with my 12 Gig. Just giving me a larger hard drive would make me want to backup less, thus lossing more data when the HD crashes.

Doesn't this remind us of the processor race? Every week, you get a new processor that has 40% more MHz.

#142151

that's just crazy. too much space, but then again, we never see the uses from the present perspective. we always think, "oh, we have enough, we don't need that," but if it's available, we'll soon find a way to utilize it.

#142178

Isn't this old news? I think I have an icon of the drive somewhere if anyone wants it...maybe not.

#142183

Yeah...it is kinda old.

Good old LaCie, always the best in hard drives.

#142190

Originally posted by XJOSHATTACKX@Apr 9 2004, 02:18 PM

Still a bit pricey for personal home use but I will get my hands on one sooner than later.

So you have 1 TB of data you need to store?

I don't see the point of personal use of this size yet. For some companies it could come in handy but I don't think people at home require a disk that big.

#142201

maybe if you do video/editing..........

#142211

amen to that... 1 second of high quality video/audio is about 1mb... it adds up very quickly... before you know it, your 80gb drive is all gone, and then WHERE DO YOU PUT THE PORN??

#142252

Try this:

The largest telecom data warehouse built to date is at British Telecom, which imported 16Tb of raw customer information into a data warehouse that exploded out to 95Tb once it was put into a data warehouse.

From here: (word doc)

http://www.odshp.com/iqug/papers/SunSybasePRAR11-30-01.doc

#142278

Whoa, that's incredible. There's a BT research/testing place literally just down my road - maybe this 95TB warehouse is there. Now that would be cool, because my dad works there :naughty:

#142283

Originally posted by wookietv@Apr 9 2004, 01:45 PM

and then WHERE DO YOU PUT THE PORN??

Isn't that what you would use a HD that big for anyway?

Intresting Ludge, that's alotta HD space. 95Tbs?

#142285

I have a home media server with 2 250 gig drives 1 160 and a 80. All are gettin pretty full. I have lots of divx movies recorded TV and mp3s(60 worth of porn ). A Terabyte drive sounds cool but not external. A SATA or SCSI Tb drive would rock. Why dont they have BIG SCSI drives and how fast is that external?

#142315

Truley i would never spend that much money for a HD Unless i was building a server Which i could do with all the stuff my dad had at his work Anyway If we were all rich i am sure we would have those hard drives in a jiffy

#142323

just for perspective, that 17min dock fight scene of Matrix Revolution used up 100Tb of data before it was put to film..

#142335

TV in the not so distant future will all be on your computer. Think of it as the ultimate Tivo.

#142432

Originally posted by MetalMusicAddict@Apr 9 2004, 09:26 PM

Why dont they have BIG SCSI drives and how fast is that external?

The reason you don't find many big SCSI drives is because SCSI is typically aimed at corporate customers/specialist segments (i.e. people to whom money is no object, when they need speed). As such, they're more than happy to pay an extra few thousand dollars to get a terabyte or two with a Big Fat RAID Array™ - that way, they get speed, volume of storage, and ridiculously good SLAs.

For most home users, there's practically no real reason to get SCSI, and there hasn't been since ATA66 - SCSI only offers advantages in extremis, and due to the positively vast platter sizes on IDE drives, these advantages are slowly dwindling...

#142636

Just imagine all you precious 1TB of data lost when you, by accident, dropped the unit... :cry:

#142638