14th January 2004, 9:41 PM
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.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)