300TB hard drive to arrive by 2010 ~ Seagate...

Inquirer ^ | Wednesday 03 January 2007, 08:12 | Nick Farrell:

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Just damn....

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

fyi

[aft_lizard]

Just damn....

Indeed.

I cant say for certain I will ever need that much space, I mean I compute alot but I only take up 20 gb of my 100 gb drive. At my rate it will take me a thousand years to fill up 300tb's, of course I am sure MS will find away to make a browser bloated enough to fill up much of the space.

[Dead Corpse]

I'd still want two of 'em. A bit like a gas in a chem lab experiment, software tends to fill up any and all available space in a given volume.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I'm firing up a machine that has two drives....one 750 Gig and the other a 400 Gig in an EZ-Swap rack....and I got good deals on the drives....now I need to figure out how to best use them....

[Atlas Sneezed]

Of course, Windows '10 will take 120Tb just for a basic install.

[dfwgator]

Yep, video quality will simply improve and increase the storage for video. If you build it, they will come.

[aft_lizard]

Actually once internet speeds are increased to around 20-40 mb/s and movies are more readily downloaded w/o all of the crap you go through now then my storage needs will increase exponentially.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

They are starting the warehouse sales....:

Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 (Perpendicular Recording) ST3320620A 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache IDE Ultra ATA100 Hard Drive - OEM
$94.99

[Turbopilot]

That's a whole lot of room for

[seacapn]

I wonder how much storage space an hour of uncompressed, high-definition holographic video would take up...

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

high-definition holographic video

Do we have that yet?

[reg45]

I see I'm not the only NewEgg customer.

[ThePythonicCow]

Hmmm ... the current fastest SATA 3.0 connections run at 300 Mbytes/sec. Dividing 300 TByte by 300 Mbyte means it would take 1,000,000 seconds, which is 11.57 days of full speed, non-stop reading to read that disk (probably slower to write, don't know) via SATA 3.0

[July 4th]

Read my mind. Seagate's CEO is an honest, honest man.

[Jeff Chandler]

Newegg! My favorite.

[Petronski]

Somebody do the math: how many HD-DVD films will that hold?

[Petronski]

Has there been a thread yet about the Intel concept CPU with 80 cores controlled by an onboard network router, supposedly promising 1 teraflop?

[ShadowAce]

[marvlus]

Do you realize that this is equivalent to having 1000 300GB hard drives? Holy mackeral! What comes after terra? Penta?