Posted on 11/02/2005 4:33:09 PM PST by El Conservador
No, you are wrong. It's not a single drive.
I say 2008.
The big reason you see AMD and Intel and IBM (PowerPC) going to multiple cores is that they hit a speed wall. Intel's predictions of 4 GHz a year or two ago were not met, and they had to go back to the architecture design board.
You might see 8192 CPUs (separate cores, not Hyperthreads) and 16 Terabytes of main memory (not disk) in a single system (not cluster) image in 2008, but no chance of 10 GHz then or anytime soon.
Lacie doesn't actually manufacture their storage mediums... Just the enclosure. So Lacie by no means created a single, 1TB drive.
Allow to me to explain my postulation...
1.) They've crammed multiple drives in external enclosures before and called it "big".
2.) It weighs 10lbs. This isn't because really IS a terrabyte drive, but four 250's put together. For example, a 250GB drive is not 25 times heavier than a 10GB drive. So I doubt a terrabyte drive is going to be about 7 times heavier than a 250GB external drive.
3.) The dimensions are 6.3" x 3.4" x 10.6" (LxWxH). Four 250GB drives would fit great in this size of an enclosure. Imagine the unit lying horizontally instead of vertically. Two drives, side by side stacked on two other drives side by side would fit a little TOO perfectly...
4.) And the fact is "7200 RPM" and "8MB cache" screams that Lacie designed from this device consumer drives... And we all know that if consumer drives could reach these kinds of capacities, then we'd be enjoying them in our desktops first. :)
5.) A REAL external, terrabyte drive would cost much much much much more. The seek time (10ms) says it all.. IDE (at the most, SATA). It's not SCSI. And since I don't see any 1TB IDE or SATA drives....
It's all speculation, but I'm willing to wager a large sum of computer components its not a single 1TB drive.
Looks like early 1970's military....
As for a 10GHz proc... 2009 would be my guess. AMD has some neat things on it's road map and Intel can't be far behind.
If they dump SOI for carbon-carbon and drop to a 65nm process, 10GHz shouldn't be a problem. The Big Three will play out SOI until demand is there. 2009 is a good guess for this.
2006.
"UPDATE 04-09-04: It's been brought to our knowledge that LaCie is combining several hard drives in a RAID array to reach the 1TB storage levels. We haven't received a confirmation email from LaCie regarding this report and the thanks goes to our loyal readers for correcting us."
http://www.cooltechzone.com/reviews/drives/hddnewsstory_001.php
Both of those state they are RAID drives.
"Guesses on 10 GHz processors?"
Before 2010, but they won't come from any US manufacturers.
If Steve Jobs is still running Apple, he'll have a big presentation where he announces that Apple is dumping Intel and going with one or more foreign suppliers.
Now that I think about it, I was snookered.
This is why the largest size they have (soon) is 2 terabyte. They are fitting 4 drives, 3.5 inches each, in that box, and the largest drive routinely available now is 500 Gbytes. Four of those drives makes 2 GBytes.
It's all plain as day now.
P.S: Guesses on 10 GHz processors???
I say 2008.
The latest Mac Pro is 8 x 3Ghz = 24 GhzMy Mac Pro is 4 x 2.66 Ghz = 10.64 Ghz
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