Few days back I got 2 x 1 TB hard disks to dump my data and move to another location. Hitachi achieves nanotechnology milestone for quadrupling terabyte hard drive. It further claims 4 terabyte (TB) desktop hard drive (and 1TB laptop hd) by 2011. The hard drive-maker said it has created the world's smallest disk drive heads -- about 2,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair. Once upon time I was quite happy with 260M hard disk. A terabyte can hold the text of roughly 1 million books, 250 hours of high-definition video, or a quarter million songs.
Now just imagine a simple SATA RAID with 4 such drives that can give you dirt cheap commodity 12TB NAS powered by Linux / FreeNAS software. :) Also watch out for the flash based hard disk. They use less power with good data transfer rate.
=> More information at : Hitachi: 4 terabyte hard drives by 2011
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- Last Updated: Oct/15/2007
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OMG… my hardisk is only 8 GB!! can i have this noW!!
ME my hard disk is only 800GB WITH INTEL CORE 2 DUO PROCESSOR AND pALIT GEFORCE 9800 GT 2GB VIDIEO CARD^^!!! what is the meaning of (TB)????
Terabyte – a unit of information used, for example, to quantify computer memory or storage capacity. 4TB == 4096 Gigabytes hard disk.
I have 2 (1TB) hard drives in my desktop. Works beautiful.
How much did it cost? the 1 tb drives each
it maybe a bit expensive but it’s cool! big memory space..
When you start working with HD video, it seems like Terabyte drives just aren’t enough. I have four 2 terabyte hard drives inside my Mac Pro, and I have 7 external 1 terabyte hard drives connected to the same computer, totaling 15 terabytes… and they’re all full. If you factor in that all of those files need to be backed up (essentially doubling the amount of space needed), suddenly a 4 terabyte hard drive doesn’t seem all that big. We need a company to start making 250 terabyte drives, or 500 terabyte drives. Can’t wait until we start pumping out Petabyte drives (1000 terabytes). Probably won’t be for another 6 or 7 years though.
I have bought a new 1 TB…works fine..though it seems thats it will be full in about 3 months or so