when will we have a 1tb drive?

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dude have you installed vista rc1?
it's like 8.5 gig
have fun
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Dude... don't remind me. So much space, so much RAM. Too resource intensive.. ahh! Yet, I still like it. 8O

yeah
installed on a spare hard drive of 10 gig
you had to hear that thing working... 8)
 
I have 3 gigs I have barely filled.
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The computer my girlfriend is using right now has a single 3GB hard drive, and after the Windows install she has about 800MB to play around with. So what are you using on your computer?

I have 3 comps, the oldest is a 3 year old Pentium4. The other two are AMD 64's. I meant to say 320gb's in my Kandalf SLI system, 300 in my raptor raid-0 setup mATX lan system, and more 90gb's just drives, 10 in a 5400 and 80 in a 7200rpm. I have about 150 CD's ripped, and a few movies, maybe a lil porn. I guess I just don't buy (or rent and then illegally burn, screw the U.K.) that many movies. You guys gotta get up off your nerdy little zit faced asses and do something for a change (!!!) instead of trying to find ways to fill up storage space. 😛

I also have a 130mb laptop drive if anyone wants it. I haven't spent $20 on an atapi adapter for my desktop for it, although I did just swap the 80gig out of my gf's old P4 Dell for a 4gb laptop drive. It's so whiney too. 1.5gigs for windows leaves about 2 gigs of storage on that computer. I figure if someone wants more they can buy an external. I'm going to try to sell it as an internet computer. It's pretty fast still, 2.2ghz, 512ram, and I even tossed in a V.92 capable modem! :roll:
 
externals take up space, are ugly, and are to slow. not really good for much aside moving large files or adding a drive to a comp that is full of other devices and there are no more ports to plug one in. You dont really have to look for ways to fill a hard drive it just happens. i didnt even think about it till i got a messege saying i was out of disk space. and i still have another 400gigs downloading 😱
 
i dont understand how you guys get by with less than atleast 500gigs, at the moment i have over 2TB,

desktop has a raid 5 of 4 320 seagates, thats 960GB, it also has a seperate 250GB drive so thats 1.25TB on my desktop, and my two external 250GB.

1.75TB to my desktop alone. and its about 1.5TB full.

about 300GB of tv shows, 45GB of 128Kbps MP3s, my entire DVD collection which is god only knows how much.
 
It's quite simple. I don't steal movies by renting them and then ripping them, and I don't go out and buy a ton of movies either. Nor do I waste my hard earned cash on CD's by coked out musicians. There's a little thing this country has forgotten to do. It's called saving and investing. Not all of us want to work at Walmart when we're 70, live in a trailer home, and beg Uncle Sam for our bread.
 
I aint seen my uncle in years and his names Sammy, and I don't steal movies by renting and then ripping 'em, I steal them by downloading them same goes for the music. If your gonna start slaging people off the least you can do is get the details right, sheesh :roll:
 
It's quite simple. I don't steal movies by renting them and then ripping them, and I don't go out and buy a ton of movies either. Nor do I waste my hard earned cash on CD's by coked out musicians. There's a little thing this country has forgotten to do. It's called saving and investing. Not all of us want to work at Walmart when we're 70, live in a trailer home, and beg Uncle Sam for our bread.
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i shouldnt but im a bit insulted here, im in my last year at university, work part time, and live in a flat with two others, if thats heading for a life in walmart and a trailer home then you can shove it up your ass.

i save, how do you i think i got the rig i have now? mommy and daddy certaintly didnt buy it for me, i spent the entire summer holidays working 70 hour weeks to save up and pay back my university overdraft, pay for this computer and pay my uni fee's. at the moment i do buy a lot of dvds, i have just over 250 legit DVDs, i download a hell of a lot of tv shows which to my knowledge is not illegal, you tell me the difference between recording the show onto a dvd and putting it on your computer and just downloading the show.


to EnFoRceR22,

i use DVDshrink to copy my DVDs onto my computer allows me to keep just the movie on my computer without the menus and extras, although if you like that stuff you have the option to keep it.
 
I'd say mid 2007. Hopefully sooner rather than later though. My 1.1TB array has roughly 939MB free at the moment. I need large drives so I can hold all the music and movies I have backed up and ready to serve out to computers around the house.
 
Flakes, I love how you got all defensive like a chic. LOL If you don't do anything wrong, you're in college, and you work your butt off, then I obviously wasn't talking about you. I think most of us hate daddy's boys who are for the most part unethical. But then, we're all hypocrites too. And downloading is the same as stealing if they're stolen copies. Which most online media is. Law takes years to catch up to new illegal practices. Look at Enron. You think the same kind of shit hadn't been going on for 50 years already? The Sarbanes-Oxley Act was LONG overdue. Corporations have other ways to extort money from good people, and it'll take more time before it comes to light and laws are passed. If you download media online that should be illegal, you're just copying media someone else stole and are every bit as guilty as they are. It's easy to see one side of things until you're the musician working hard and trying to make a profit. Some of them ARE honest. I don't dignify blowing your earnings on CD's, but I don't dignify stealing someone else's creativity either. If only patents on creativity worked the same for liberal design as it does for mechanical design. I can patent a product, but only "copyright" a song. Both are drummed up out of human ingenuity and hard work, except people put more value on tangible wealth.
 
whats the point in all this space??? from what i noticed?? all you need is a 300gh.. i dont think anyone can use up 1tb in less than 1 month of downloading........

anyway sorry for the rant..
 
single SATA drive

im sure seagate will do it first.

when do you think it will be? in 2006? or sometimes in 2007


750gb was released in april 2006

i thought they would have come out with 1tb before end of 06
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Err...Terabyte? I'm still using my 8-track. I don't think magnetic spinning disk well going to last longer. I'm sure by 2010ish we'll be using a solid state storage or holographic.
 
If you want big storage, just do a raid array. A couple 500GB drives would probably work out cheaper than a single 1Tb drive when they first come out.

Also You could get better perfomance and/or error recovery than a single drive too depending on how you configure it.
 
If you want big storage, just do a raid array. A couple 500GB drives would probably work out cheaper than a single 1Tb drive when they first come out.

Also You could get better perfomance and/or error recovery than a single drive too depending on how you configure it.
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isnt there double the chance it will fail?
 
If you want big storage, just do a raid array. A couple 500GB drives would probably work out cheaper than a single 1Tb drive when they first come out.

Also You could get better perfomance and/or error recovery than a single drive too depending on how you configure it.
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if im not mistaken both those raid setups eat a drive for those two options. cutting your space in half? dunno not a fan of raid anyways. i would rather just put the drives in the system alone then raid them.
 
I think 1 TB drives would be awesome and much more feasibly with PMR recording. As it would allow a small standalon nas box to have a 3.something TB raid 5 volume. :)
 
Once the competition launches a 750GB drive... right now Seagate has no real reason to release a bigger drive as it is the largest drive available. Delaying it also relieve pressure as they still need to switch over manufacturing to perpendicular (currently less than a 1/3 of their capacity is capable of manufacturing such drives).

I'd relaly like ot see larger laptop drives first though 😉 Its pretty easy to stick two or three hard drives in a desktop, but its a pain when your laptop is maxed out.
 
Music Ha I have close to 160GB of just music and that does not include the 400 plus cd's I own, I could use a terabyte drive like no bodys business. For instance alot of the music I listen to, live dj sets, can't be bought anywhere and they average 200MB each I have hundreds and I keep getting more every day. I am always running out of storage space, I have close to 14,000 songs on my pc and I want to rip all my cds but thats another 10,000 or more songs and if ripped at a decent bit rate can easily go over 150 GB's not to mention I to audio mixing and need room for the loops I work with that alone is another 20 GB. No the average user does not need a TB drive most dont need anything bigger than 30 to 50 GB but speaking for the reast of us give us more.
 
I agree there is no reason for manufacturers to "push" 1tb too soon because the average user doesn't need that kind of space.

Having said that, I have a 200gig drive that I struggle to keep hovering at around 180gigs. most of it is games that I do play enough to not want to uninstall, photos of my kids (they're beatiful children so can't have too many), and some video of family and kids although not much.
I also keep around 5-6 movies ripped to HDD that I'm into at any given time.

As for some of the pirating accusations to other posters I'm assuming that was at least 50% in jest. I personally own 100s of DVDs and 100s of VHS that are all original store bought or mail-service purchased copies. One day I'd love to have it all in one place like a media PC and store all the disks/tapes somewhere out of the way.

I regularly make attempts to trim the fat out of my drive but seldom get it below 120gigs minimum and then its not long before it goes up to 180+ again. I guess if the space is there I'll use it, shrug.

To each their own but the faster 1tb drives hit the faster current 500-750gig drive prices will fall and I'll likely buy 2 or more so I don't have to police my space usage quite so diligently. I'd love to get even more into video editing my home movies but its a chore making space all the time.

Moral of that story is some of us really could use the space, and for legitimate reasons. :)
 
I have close to 14,000 songs on my pc and I want to rip all my cds but thats another 10,000 or more songs
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Wow, and I thought I had a halfway decent collection with about 6,000 - 7,000 songs. That's even more amazing when you consider that it would take about 1200 hours or 50 entire days to listen to all 24,000 tracks if the average song is 3 minutes (of course the average song probably is a bit longer).
Taking this into account, along with the amount of time it'd take to watch the rest of a TB's worth of even uncompressed video, and I have a hard time imagining having the time to ever enjoy it all.
I know I'm not alone on that, and it's likely the reason that 750GB has been the largest there is for awhile now. There's just no real need yet.
 
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