Comments on: 4 TB Hard disk by 2011

By: jordan Soulos

jordan Soulos — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:03:12 +0000

boys i check cables in server room all day they have already made petrabytes in storage

By: katibi

katibi — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:27:00 +0000

I have a wall of drives (I’m a photographer)

By: katibi

katibi — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:26:18 +0000

End of the year.

By: katibi

katibi — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:26:00 +0000

Except that with Windows it takes about a decade to format a 1TB drive. Serious computer users have been migrating to Linux for years.

By: katibi

katibi — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:25:22 +0000

Before the hard drive plants in Thailand floated away (bad business model to concentrate production in one very dangerous location–they should have some in North America and Europe) you could purchase a 2TB drive for well under $100. So you can have nearly 8TB of capacity for the price of a single 4TB drive. Mathematics is a wonderful thing.

By: katibi

katibi — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:24:03 +0000

Hard drives are essentially the same size they have been for about two decades now. It’s capacity that is important, but reliability is always King (or Queen)

By: katibi

katibi — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:23:28 +0000

4 TB drives debuted at $345 USD at the end of 2011

By: katibi

katibi — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:23:00 +0000

A lot is about 1% of the population. Most people do nothing with their computer except play video games… still…

By: katibi

katibi — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:21:59 +0000

It’s normal for corporations to advertise falsely.

By: Jack

Jack — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 22:32:03 +0000

Damn!!!!! and all my life ive settled for a 20 gig drive , how much would one of these cost 1 thou mabe ill be able to afford that, and your saying its not enough!!!!

By: XrG

XrG — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 06:33:26 +0000

haha i literally have 15TB’s in my home i run a small buissness and also have a thirst for documentarys and movies i was at work (im an ATT Uverse TEch Support agent) talking to a coworker and i mentioned my plans on buying 16 TB’s for back up my buddys eyeball nearly fell out and was like 16TBs? why the hell would you need that i told him why as i was going to back up my current information hes like so your going to have 30 some terrabytes in your home thats overkill. i asked him if he was only using a 10Gb harddrive he laughed and said no i have one 2TB for all my stuff. i asked him what would you do if you lost it all…he said hed shit abrick. i told him id shit 2 thats why im backin up.

By: XrG

XrG — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 06:27:48 +0000

Agreed. and to add for those who are looking for 4Tb’s Samsung just released a prototype 4tb disc

By: bobkart

bobkart — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 05:17:29 +0000

For hard disc capacities, manufacturers do NOT use the binary forms of kilo/mega/giga/tera/etc, they use the decimal forms.

Thus, for manufacturer-claimed hard drive capacities, 4TB == 4000 GB, not 4096 GB.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terabyte#Usage

By: Ajay

Ajay — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 17:14:00 +0000

I have heard about it somewhere. Im not sure about it, Its just guess :) But their is something Limit
Also I want to notice you that Fat file system does not support file size over 4 GB, Also the data bus in computer can keep addresses upto a limit (may be 2^20)

By: Jonny Cal

Jonny Cal — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 03:27:39 +0000

wrong, i have 3.9 terabytes and i did not need to upgrade my bios what so ever.. htough my mobo is quite new so maybe its already got the ability to support ….
if so what is the max fir upgradebios

By: Ajay

Ajay — Mon, 16 May 2011 22:18:07 +0000

Hey,
I think all discussion about the 16 Tb to 256 Tb are worthless. Coz Technology is just not increasing size & capacity but also changing.
Im also using 1Tb & now a days 3Tb is lanched , but this doesnt mean extending upto 250Tb, More new techniques like DNA Computing, Flash Storage, Nano Technology, Cloud Operating System & many more are on verge of getting out.
If any of these & so like gets out, then hard disks will get totally vanished.

Also One major problem is u have to upgrade ur bios for using too much memory( I think 2.19Tb) Else ur computer cant detect it, so cant vary multiple disks at this stage.

By: pcunite

pcunite — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 00:01:16 +0000

I need a 4TB drive … where are they!

By: Rod

Rod — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 17:01:36 +0000

Link # 1 Link # 2 something like these ?

By: cobra

cobra — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 13:30:34 +0000

Its 2011 now so where are they 4tb hardrives?

By: sean

sean — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 21:33:50 +0000

just saw this after realising that they have done exactly what they predicted almost four years earlier. WOW