1TB hard drive

[xarir]

Finally! There's a 1TB hard drive out there. Well, there will be in Feb. $1199 US gets you an external hard drive with Firewire 800,400 & USB2 interfaces.

Must start saving now ...

http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?id=10118

 

[Kev]

I just upgraded various components of my computer. I now have 1 Gig of RAM. Who would have thought that we would need this much power in a computer?

And now we have 1000Gig HDs. Thats alot of porn pictures. --- Kev

 

[xarir]

Hmm. Not my intent in starting this thread, but this could easily turn into a pissing contest a la "My HD is bigger than yours!"

But for the record - 2GB RAM, 650GB of hard drives (4 HDs). Soon to be 1.65TB on 5 HDs I hope!

 

[Cruise]

something came to my mind:
1) why do u need 1TB hdd for?
2) get two 500 GigB hdd.
3) 2GB of ram is too much? what are u running a amazon.com?

for the record:
256mb, 15gig hdd, 800mhz celeron (i know i know)
i bought this 3 years ago.
but i am keeping it as long i as can.

 

[CyberGoth]

that one TB disk is probably three 300s raid5'd together.

lots and lots and lots of ram/cpu/disk/everything else.

I think it adds up to something like 45ghz of cpu, 83gigs of ram, and about 3tbytes of disk [mirrored & backed up]

kinda lost count when i found myself installing more rackmount cabinets to put equipment into for my work.

oh yes and about 80 amps of power run thru about 16,000 watts of uninteruptable power supply.

ok, so I go a little overboard with my equipment sometimes, it all does something useful hopefully.

 

[Cosmic]

I now have 1 Gig of RAM

That is a lot of RAM.

Has anyone heard about the next DVD format called the blue laser disc from Toshiba? I believe the disc itself can hold up to 20GB or around 36GB of information. You can have the entire Lord of the Ring trilogy on 1 disc.

 

[Remo]

BluRay is alread out but I believe its Sony that made it. The thing will be, if the companies involved with BluRay share the copyright and the abiltiy to produce machines to read it.

Anyone remember BETA video cassettes? Hopefully Sony learned from that.

 

[Goober Mcfly]

Let me know when we get to a Gigaflop.

*insert obligatory penis joke here*

 

[George OTJ]

Which blue lazer?

Do you know which blue lazer technology was used? I understand there were two types being discussed in the industry - with no one agreeing which technology should be used.
One had considerable more capacity then the other blue lazer. But the low capacity blue lazer could read the current red-lazer CDs and DVDs. The high capacity blue lazer could not read existing products.

 

[xarir]

something came to my mind:
1) why do u need 1TB hdd for?
2) get two 500 GigB hdd.
3) 2GB of ram is too much? what are u running a amazon.com?

I do video editing for fun in my spare time. Trust me - I need storage space & RAM. If I could expand beyond 2GB of RAM I would.

By way of example, I produced a 30 min DVD recently. The final DVD came out to about 1.8GB. To produce this I needed a 137GB project that drew on 450GB of raw footage. So just to do this one project I needed almost 600GB of storage. My big project that I'm working on now will likely end up being a 2h DV. I'm using a different editing package this time which so far is little more efficient with storage requirements. Nonetheless I'm projecting that I'll need around 1.2TB of storage space to complete the project.

 

[CyberGoth]

hmmmmm 64bit dual proc BSD GOODNESSS


tasty....

 

[xarir]

FYI - a PowerMac G5 can have up to 8 gig of RAM with 4 gig per application.

I know. I'm using a dual G4 right now so I can't really justify the expense of going to the G5. Maybe when the G6 (Power 990 chip) comes out I'll upgrade.