I Terabyte, but to you 943 gigs...

[ffutures]

Just wondering who's going to be the first on my friends list to install 1 terabyte hard disks as spotted by ludditerobot - on this side of the pond my money is on someone in the Plokta cabal and/or autopope, not sure about the US contingent. Bit disappointing that the capacity is "only" 943 gigs after formatting, but doubtless there are bigger things to come. Astonishing that they can get this into a 3.5" form factor - my first hard disk was "full size" 5.25" and 10mb inside an externl casing (there wasn't room inside an IBM PC for the disk drive and the power supply was inadequate anyway), the first one I saw was an 8" externally cased 5 mb drive for a TRS-80 model 3.

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[mind-of-richard.livejournal.com]

I actually plan on setting up an external one to run it as a music server in the house. I am doing this next weekend.

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

I'm still trying to decide whether to go for something like the Buffalo station which gives 1Tb but not on a single physical drive ... please let us know how you get on!

At one point about a month or so ago I had most of my external drives hooked up and realised that I had 1.3Tb of storage active at that moment ... while on an average evening I'll usually only have about 800Gb actually online at any moment.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Let's see - 300gb on the network drive which is always on, this PC has 80 and 110gb drives, my other PC has an 80, the iBook has 80, so 380 to a maximum of about 650gb depending on what I'm doing. Ignoring piddling small change like the Ipaq at 64mb (more than my first three hard disks combined and going to go to 1gb when I can find enough stuff I want to make ordering the SD card worthwhile), the little camera with 64mb currently but probably about to go to 128mb, the Nikon with a 2gb SD card and another spare, a 40gb USB hard disk, a couple of pen drives, etc.

[doctor-toc.livejournal.com]

I'm planning on building my own box later this year, and I'm seriously tempted, simply because of the vast amount of digital audio I've got.

[ckd]

I am very seriously interested in these as RAID components for work, once our vendors have qualified them and figured out what kind of crazy markup we'll be paying relative to the commodity "bare drive" price down at the local computer store. (The wonderful world of computational biology and genomics, where a "small interim storage purchase" is on the order of 200TB, and 1TB is the sort of amount of storage you lose to rounding errors.)

Seriously, anything that gives me more storage density is a win.

[alexmc.livejournal.com]

I personally will be sticking with smaller disks - but trying to RAID them up.

Technolust...

[nojay.livejournal.com]

Komplett.co.uk has a few in stock, at 240 quid and a penny excluding P&P. For the same amount at Komplett you can buy three 500Gb drives giving you well over a Tb of capacity in total, but lacking the coolness factor. When I looked yesterday Komplett had 13 of the terabyte drives in stock, today they had eight.

As for density, there's no new tech inside the drive's case to boost the capacity, just five platters and ten headsets crammed in to reach the mgic terabyte figure with a pedestrian 100Gb per surface.

Re: Technolust...

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

If I had to choose I think I'd prefer proven technology - at least a conventional drive isn't going to have too many weird problems.

Wonder how long it'll be before we see Clarke's dream of a few terabytes in a "hold in the hand and don't worry about breaking it" format about the size of a 3.5" floppy. Or will memory sticks get there first...?