1 Terabyte Hard Drive?

Storage is one thing but access speed is another one. If you have to move 100 GB of data at +- 50 mb/s I'd rather keep my 50GB HDD, really.:dead:

New ATA standards underway to allow for the creation of something like a 1 TB IDE hard drive will include MUCH faster transfers with much more bandwidth. Probably looking at something like UDMA1024, etc...

source: http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/05/11/1220216

Much more on the topic here: http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=186

Amazing technology (the 1tb drive) but I would prefer an raid 5 array of smaller drives (faster access, better chance of recovering data when the really big crash comes )

Why not a RAID 5 array of 1tb drives? Now that'd be something to show off

Probably an intrical part of the home PC system within 3 years my friend....

3 years ago, I distinctly remember oohing and aaahing with friends as we beheld a store PC with.... drum roll.....

A giant 8 GB HDD!!!

Jeez I had to put one of those in my rig as an emergency recently..... what a speed killer...

1GB huge hard disks doesn't seem that long ago!!!
I recently sold a P133 with a 800mb hard disk and a 1GB disk!!!

I can just imagine...

During windows 2020 installation from fd:
"Please insert disk 69444444444444444.444444444444444"
"The disk in drive A: is not formatted, Would you like to format it now?"

ARRRRRGGGGHHH
:dead:

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They were like the three stodges but a little more high brow (i.e. slightly more intelligent humor rather than just pure slapstick).

Well, wanna guess who first said Terabyte?

Data from Star Trek

We don't go any higher than yottabyte because, simply, the sun will burn out before we gain the technology of a fraction of a yottabyte.

Nah don't be daft.

The sun is 5 billion years old and still has about another 5 billions years to go.

I would not be surprised if we have machines with a yottabyte of RAM, etc but at least the time we are all dying like 2050, 2060, etc...

Well. Don't forget that the prefix mega does not remain true for machines as it does with our base 10 system. Sure, the proper term is supposed to be mibi but as it stands, the standard is mega for base 2 in machines stands for 1024, not 1000, and when you are using that from the lowest point (a kilobyte) and it is going in multiples, a terrabyte would be a lot more then 1000 * 1000 * 1000 and so forth and so on.

1024 bytes = kilobyte
1024 kilobytes = megabyte
1024 megabytes = gigabyte
1024 gigabytes = terrabyte

and etc

Well, that depends a bit..

Whilst what you have printed is correct for software, the harddrive manufacturers decided to go with the "regular" definition for mega, giga and terra bytes... So a harddrive with with 1 tb space according to specs would only have:
1.000.000.000.000 bytes instead of
1.099.511.627.776 bytes....

.02$

Yeah SN, it is pretty annoying, but actually what's happening is that your hard drive really can't use the whole thing without two partitions - it happens to almost all drives with FAT32, and you can lose up to 3GB from it!
I've had 10GB hd's show up as 9.54, 20 GB's show up as 18.24...
Madness.

1000 yottabytes equals 1 Brontobyte

Re: Re: Re: 1 Terabyte Hard Drive?

Agh! I wanted the honor to point it out to that computer brainiac.... Phantasm.

In transfer and speeds, Phantasm would be correct (in that post).

PS: Lol, drew888.... what gives starting up this long topic again lol?

dell, just built the third most powerful supercomputer

17.7 terraflops per second computer http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1210196,00.asp

What's after a yottabyte?

1000 yottabytes is called 1 nonabyte, according to this web page: Nonabyte

addition

soul harvester said:
"Well. Don't forget that the prefix mega does not remain true for machines as it does with our base 10 system. Sure, the proper term is supposed to be mibi but as it stands, the standard is mega for base 2 in machines stands for 1024, not 1000, and when you are using that from the lowest point (a kilobyte) and it is going in multiples, a terrabyte would be a lot more then 1000 * 1000 * 1000 and so forth and so on. "

This is NOT entirely true... the prefix "mega" is used in engineering which uses a base 3 number system (i.e. 1 megawatt = 1x10^3 or 1000 watts) in any other application this would be kilo... but in engineering notation the prefix is changed every 3 decimal places... don't argue with me, I'm an electrical engineer...