20th February 2006, 4:47 PM
With current internet speeds i dont see such a HDD being a realistic need. For an editor yes, or anyone knee deep in a graphics workstation, absolutely. But for consumers, no way. i have over 6000 mp3's, gigs upon gigs of full-length porn movies, entire CD rom games, tens of thousands of samples in CD quality audio etc etc and i'm no where near my limit of 150 gigs. In order for an HDD of that size to be needed for consumers, transfer speeds will need to increase 20 fold. To the point of d/l a few dozen gigs taking less than 20 minutes and even then, what would you be d/l? Porn, bootleg or online purchased HD films and full versions of video games; they're the only things (as far as average consumers go) that takes up gigs at a time.
When we have 600MB/sec d/l speeds people will start needing huge storage devices, but not now. It would be a stupid purchase with absolutely no purpose for the average consumer. An HD editor would probably fill it within the span of 5 or 6 films, animators and renderers at Pixar would do it to, everyone else would end up with a incredibly stupid device with no worth.
When we have 600MB/sec d/l speeds people will start needing huge storage devices, but not now. It would be a stupid purchase with absolutely no purpose for the average consumer. An HD editor would probably fill it within the span of 5 or 6 films, animators and renderers at Pixar would do it to, everyone else would end up with a incredibly stupid device with no worth.