New hard drive- now I can breath again!

[pcbrainbuster]

Wo...

[djr33]

Talking about me?

Internal G5: 160 (native), 250 (added), 160 (external), 1TB (external)...
1,570gb, total.
Plus, now 120gb on the laptop, and going to get an external firewire-powered mobile harddrive... either 160 or 250gb.

...video... yeah... takes space.

[tech_support]

Yep,
I so want your 1TB!!!!

[boogyman]

how much did that T external put you back ?

[pcbrainbuster]

Eh, a few hundred dollars/pounds...

[Ryan Fitton]

I've got 1 terabyte (1000 gb)

[mburt]

Wow... I would do anything (well.. not anything, but pretty darn close) to have that .

[pcbrainbuster]

Whats the biggest amount of space anyone has seen on ONE medium (eg a HD 1.5TB for me)...

[djr33]

medium? As in... how much space anyone has in total over all their hard drives?
Or do you mean one storage unit... meaning on hard drive.

I have 1TB in a single device (it's actually two 500 drives nested)... I think that's the most you'll find from anyone here, EXCEPT in the case of servers. Anything above that gets really expensive. It would be more worth it to buy two of those than to buy a 1.5TB disk, etc.

[Twey]

I saw an 8TB once. I doubt many motherboards would support it though.

Haha, in a few years' time someone's going to look back on this and think, "haha, wow, a whole 8TB," before proceeding to download this whole site onto their >100TB hard drive.

There was an interesting new hard drive technology in the works a little while back involving magnetic flux quanta. That would dramatically decrease the physical size of hard drives, and probably push the price of manufacturing high-capacity drives down considerably.