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Terabyte - A Black Falcon - 14th January 2004
http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?id=10118
Wow. Cool!
Terabyte - geoboy - 14th January 2004
$1200 for one terabyte? That comes down to $1.20 per gigabyte.
I bought a 120GB hard drive for $140, which comes to $1.17 per gigabyte.
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Terabyte - A Black Falcon - 14th January 2004
When I was in Staples a few days ago, I saw a 120GB for $130 and a 160GB for $140... but this drive is just cool because of how huge it is. :)
Terabyte - Dark Jaguar - 14th January 2004
YES! Finally, the rest of the world will know of the metric prefix I've been waiting for! Tera just MEANS hugeness! A terameter is a frickin' 3rd of a lightyear ya know.
Quick, what's above tera?
Okay, found out a lot of prefixes after tera. Like the rest of them, each adds 3 0's to the previous one.
peta
exa
zetta
yotta
Terabyte - Weltall - 14th January 2004
My God, how did they accomplish this? I mean, I thought I remember reading how near-impossible it would be to surpass the 250GB mark, and here comes a TB drive.
Technology is wonderful, isn't it?
Terabyte - Dark Jaguar - 14th January 2004
Look at the pictures. They managed this by "cheating", sorta :D. They just made a different kind of hard drive, and the fact that it's external and that big kinda prooves it. The details I don't know. Maybe they have a bunch of different disk sets in there (meaning it's a bunch of hard drives partitioned as one invisibly), or maybe it's just a very different kind of setup that requires it to be large. It'll be a while before they can manage to get a terabyte into a standard internal hard drive. In fact, eventually the entire standard may have to change.
Terabyte - Weltall - 14th January 2004
Dark Jaguar Wrote:Look at the pictures. They managed this by "cheating", sorta :D. They just made a different kind of hard drive, and the fact that it's external and that big kinda prooves it. The details I don't know. Maybe they have a bunch of different disk sets in there (meaning it's a bunch of hard drives partitioned as one invisibly), or maybe it's just a very different kind of setup that requires it to be large. It'll be a while before they can manage to get a terabyte into a standard internal hard drive. In fact, eventually the entire standard may have to change.That's what I was thinking. But how on earth could two drives be partitioned as one? I mean, I could visualize the concept but I have no idea how it could be executed.
About the size... possibly. I remember when Seagate first came out with the 180 GB Barracuda drive. It was pretty big, it required a five inch bay. Now they're down to the regular 3.5''.
Doesn't XP support up to a 2 TB partition?
Terabyte - Dark Jaguar - 14th January 2004
Well, both FAT32 and NTFS support that as the max, I think. I'm fairly sure most OSs that support those would have that as their max inherently.
And, I was thinking it's not that it's partitioned as one in the OS itself, but rather it's setup that way on the device, so the computer isn't even aware of it. That's why I said invisibly. So, the computer would access the external storage device the same way as anything else, and the device itself would then shuffle between the various disks it MAY have to locate the data. I imagine that the table of contents would either be stored outside those disks or on disk "a" (or however they labelled them). Of course I'm just coming up with this theory as I go.
Terabyte - alien space marine - 15th January 2004
Super Computers have been in the Terabytes for years now and infact Intel has a processor for terabyte sized super computers, I guess the challenge is to shrink it down to regular home pc size.
Terabyte - Laser Link - 15th January 2004
Yeah, there are ways to set up multiple drives to look like one even if they are completely seperate pieces of hardware. So I imagine that is what they are going too. I was going to check the price per gig if geoboy hadn't, but I would not have used the lovely NBC image. :D And if you shop around (aka pricegrabber.com) you can find name brand hard drives at about $0.75/ gig.
Terabyte - Great Rumbler - 15th January 2004
That's a huge harddrive. I wish I could afford a few.
Terabyte - geoboy - 15th January 2004
<a href="http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?threadid=714903">Here's</a> a link of more speculations for anyone who's interested.
It looks like people are leaning towards that this thing is made of multiple drives.
Terabyte - Great Rumbler - 15th January 2004
Quote:the LaCie Bigger Disk allows users to store nearly two years of continuous music
