
Areal density
One has areal density of "411in^2" and the other has a suggested areal density of "514sq^2", impressive units if nothing else!
Has the 3TB drive cookie crumbled with Hitachi GST's stealthy product, or will Samsung bring out its own 3TB EcoGreen drive? Hitachi GST has revealed the 3TB Deskstar 7K300 on its website, but with no PR fanfare. It's a 7,200rpm, 3.5-inch drive with a 6Gbit/s SATA interface, a first for Hitachi GST, and comes in 1TB, 2TB and …
I remember taking the piss out of a friend when he took delivery of his new Gateway desktop with its 1GB hard drive. Ridiculous to have so much storage on a home machine; he'd never fill it...
Now 1GB is considered unworkably restrictive in a mobile handset, which will routinely arrive with four times that storage on a card smaller than my fingernail. Seems the future arrived when I wasn't paying attention, and it's even less realistic than I expected...
Each year we move further and further away from ways to actually backup all this data.
A colleague was saying, what we actually need is effectively a record to backup our data to.
Something solid and won't be affected by the Sunday doing a funky dance, or someone dropping a nuke a mile or two away.
Something you can backup lots to, but also keep for a large amount of time.
It's just a wating game before we start losing considerable amounts of data.
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I can put 14 Hard discs in my computer the way its configured now. So I could have 56,000 GB..
Lets see... Thats ruffly 12,400 movies.. Its only 14 million MP3 songs..
Maybe its possible to have every piece of music ever written on one computer ?
I could buy a small rack enclosure about the size of a night stand and get 32 drives into it PLUS whats in my computer.
At that point I believe I could store the entire worlds total produced movies and music pretty easy with more then enough room for every printed book/magazine/paper..
Thats all with technology available right now.
You know soon it might be possible to get every bit of humanities total produced, everything, on one system pretty easy...
Wow all of mans knowledge collected in one place... Easily... Thats where the future is going. Looks like one day we will have EVERYTHING on a hand held device.
Kinda makes the value of the content pretty minimal when you can just buy EVERYTHING KNOWN TO MAN on one device. I could see that happening.
I thought hard drives were a thing of the past? Why are we seeing new and "better" ones being developed? Personally I think anybody who puts all his data on one storage thingy (of any size or construction) is an idiot. Something about putting "all your eggs" or something. I'd just like the damn things to be more reliable. Give me a slew of 100 year 160GB drives and I might feel safe.
Within the last year, I read an article speculating when 5TB drives should hit... and the article obviously dove into what needs that much storage...
To illustrate the capacity, it compared it to a human brain - which apparently is estimated to be about 10 terabytes.
It makes you think - sure, the brain is not a perfect recall, but think how much imagery *is* stored in your brain -- you can recognize beyond countless pictures, people, landscapes, etc. Enough to "know" if something has changed. You can recall extensive details about movies, etc. Pretty cool.
Now I want an SD slot in the back of my head so I can store photos directly from my eyeballs :)