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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[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.