Maxtor releases 300GB HD

[Julio Franco]

Maxtor touts 300GB hard drive

The Milpitas, Calif., hard-drive maker on Monday said it had begun shipping the new 300GB device as part of a $399 Hard Drive Retail Kit for upgrading desktop PCs. Retail is an important market for drive manufacturers, who gain a significant amount of business from consumers and small businesses upgrading their desktop PCs with bigger drives.

Read more: CNet News.

 

[Phantasm66]

All I have to do is RAID0 4 of these babies, and I've got 1.2 TB of disk space, on the one partition even, if I want.

Although defragging something like this would be a nightmare, I will wager it would be a while before something that big would need to be defragmented.

As far as a single, 300GB drive goes, I think they will be the standard in no time.

 

[agissi]

Can someone please tell me:

WHO THE HELL USES 1.2TBS!!! Much less, Raid0 the 300GBers.

I fixed your GBS to TBS Poertner_1274

 

[Phantasm66]

I will tell you exactly who uses 1.2 TBs of disk space - someone who has a broadband internet connection and downloads movies. That's only about 2000 films. That may seem like a lot, but I could download that easily in about 1 year, from Kazaa and news groups, irc and bittorrents. Easy.

 

[aoj145]

You COULD download that much in Movies and MP3's....

.... but that would be wrong.


uh, hello, RIAA and MPAA! Thanks for visiting the forums.... letter?? No I didn't get your letter..... what was it about? A lawsuit?!

 

[Phantasm66]

Oh man, within 2 years everyone with a broadband internet connection will probably be the same. Let's face it. I am not condoning piracy, merely stating fact.

 

[aoj145]

I'm just poking fun. There's a ton of legal, legit stuff I download all the time that takes up alot of space.

Between game demos, patches, programs I buy off the net and download instead of having the retail package shipped out, music creation, video editing, etc.

I also like the thought about 'who can use that much space?!?!'.

My first computer had 8k or RAM and then I remember down the road with my Tandy XT with 256k or RAM and wondering who the hell I was going to fill my 10meg hard drive!

1.2TB won't be that big in a few years. Hell, a few years from now you'll be able to fit that much on your keychain.

 

[Phantasm66]

And you will need that much space, because the operating systems and even office suits and stuff will be huge.

 

[DigitAlex]

it's very simple

when u have 4 GB, you wonder what the hell the guys with 20 GB put on their drives

when u have 120 GB fillesd with movies games pix 3d models and tons of other junk you still wonder what would you do with 1.2 TB heheheh

 

[Phantasm66]

I will use 1.2 TB of disk space no problem. Can I have it now?