A 1000 GB - HDD go Tera. And you?

[Oleander Ardens]

After Seagate and Hitachi also Samsung, my favorite HDD maker introduced a 1TB
disk. Costs in nearby Germany roughly 240€.And I still remember when 5GB were the state of the art

Are you going to buy one in the next two years? Guess that I will wait until there are cheap enough to run in a RAID-conf. But you?

OA

[Beirut]

I have a buddy in Australia who said they had to inform the government when they used HDs with a TB of space at work.

Sounds very odd, but he didn't sound like he was joking.

[Husar]

My new 240GB HDD isn't even half full so far...

It's a Samsung though.

I read the Samsung 1TB thing is better because it consists of only 3 disks inside instead of 4. That makes it faster and cooler.

[Warluster]

I need a bigger hard drive, I used up at least 70 GB's of my space in 1 week. had to chuck so many things out... :(

[Omanes Alexandrapolites]

1TB! How do you guys fill up that huge area of space? I'm only using 24GB (43%) on my new laptop and 30GB (50%) on my new PC. I must be doing something right somewhere!

Due to the above reasons, I probably will never buy one that large, or ever a quarter of the size, in the next few years. However, over time, games have evolved to be larger requiring larger amounts of space - if that trend continues, then I may, unfortunately, be forced to purchase one.

[TevashSzat]

Only way that you need 1TB is if you were doing some serious high quality video editing or just wanted to archive every videogame that have been created.

[Mikeus Caesar]

Only way that you need 1TB is if you just wanted to archive every videogame that have been created.

Well, now that you mention it...

[drone]

1 Terabyte. That's a lot of pr0n...

[Oleander Ardens]

I guess it depends how much storage intensive data you have. I make good use of imaging tools and store a lot of images on my HDD. I have images of every game I still had. MTW:VI was not among them

Still I think 1TB is a little extreme. I consider to go for a 400GB HDD as a midlife upgrade next year or so.

[barocca]

...And I still remember when 5GB were the state of the art ...

break out the zimmer frame,
my first HDD was 10MB and i remember thinking how the heck are we ever going to fill that!!!

I have a buddy in Australia

as for 1TB HDD's needing to notify the Gov. in Oz - he's joking with you.

B.

[Papewaio]

1TB! How do you guys fill up that huge area of space? I'm only using 24GB (43%) on my new laptop and 30GB (50%) on my new PC. I must be doing something right somewhere!

The answer is in your quote... the larger the hard drive the quicker it fills.

[RickFGS]

1 Terabyte isnt actually that much, if you can download 300 Gigas or more every month, it will only last for 3 months and a few weeks till you start sending things to dvd-rw´s...

[Bijo]

1 Terabyte isnt actually that much, if you can download 300 Gigas or more every month, it will only last for 3 months and a few weeks till you start sending things to dvd-rw´s...

If, and only if, you would download (or generally save) that much in rapid fashion onto the disk.


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And what average consumer requires 1TB?

[Caius]

Never!

Thats a lot of space, how can I fill that space?I still think 160 GB are much.

[The Spartan (Returns)]

What do you need 1TB for?

My 226GB isn't even halfway full yet.

[Beirut]

What do you need 1TB for?

Lots of movies, I would think. I can't imagine what else could take up all that space, except maybe a photographer keeping a whack of digital pictures.

[Stuperman]

I've got a 74 gig raptor and a 250 gig WD, I'm looking for more space. the 250 is full of movies, music and backup stuff. The raptor is my boot drive, and is full of games/apps/utilities, I've got more than a gig of RTW saves and more than 300mb of M2TW saves on the raptor.

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

What do you need 1TB for?

That's a lot of pr0n...

[alman7272]

1 TB for movies, music, pictures, and games. Still pricey, though.