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1 posted on 03/13/2004 5:23:14 PM PST by AntiGuv
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To: AntiGuv
Took 2 years to go from 360GB to 400GB. Methinks we're hitting the physical electromagnetic storage barrier.
2 posted on 03/13/2004 5:25:26 PM PST by Crazieman
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To: AntiGuv
Who wants to defrag that?
3 posted on 03/13/2004 5:27:21 PM PST by annyokie (There are two sides to every argument, but I'm too busy to listen to yours.)
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To: AntiGuv
I think I once paid a grand for a 60 Meg drive!

ML/NJ

5 posted on 03/13/2004 5:30:59 PM PST by ml/nj
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To: AntiGuv
I think it's LaCie that's had a 500 Gig out for over a year now. I got 2-250's last December for well under $1.00 per Gig.
6 posted on 03/13/2004 5:31:06 PM PST by kylaka (The Clintons are the democRATS crack cocaine. They know they're bad for them, they just can't stop.)
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To: AntiGuv
That would be an IBM drive (Deskstar) under the Hitachi name. I wonder if they figured out what made the IBM drives fail?
7 posted on 03/13/2004 5:31:23 PM PST by js1138
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To: AntiGuv
...more than 6,500 hours of digital music

That's 3/4ths of a year.

13 posted on 03/13/2004 5:37:57 PM PST by BikePacker
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To: AntiGuv
Right before the Pentium class computers came out, in early 94, I got a "screaming fast system". A 486/DX66 with 400MB hard drive. So, we have gone from 400MB HD to 400GB in exactly 10 years. That isn't too shabby. At this rate, we who are still around in 2014 can probably expect to be able to store an absolutely amazing amount of stuff.

My prediction is that many of us will have multiple cameras continuously storing video of our house, car, office, kid's school non stop. We will be creating our own biographies in a sense.

14 posted on 03/13/2004 5:42:11 PM PST by dogbyte12
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To: AntiGuv
A new, whopping 400-gigabyte hard drive from Hitachi Global Storage Technologies can store up to 400 hours of standard television programming, 45 hours of high-definition programming or more than 6,500 hours of digital music.

I question AP's source for the info. DV takes about 5 minutes per GB, which is about 12GB per hour. Standard definition uncompressed video takes about 90GB per hour.

15 posted on 03/13/2004 5:42:57 PM PST by savedbygrace
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"predicts the number of households with DVRs will increase to nearly 25 million by 2007, from about 3 million today"

I'm doing my part.
16 posted on 03/13/2004 5:43:54 PM PST by TheDon (John Kerry, self proclaimed war criminal, Democratic Presidential nominee)
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To: AntiGuv
Does anyone remember the first Mac? IT HAD NO HARD DRIVE. Everytime you wanted to do something, you had to insert the FLOPPY DISK which housed the ENTIRE operating system. Yikes, it was the mid 1980's.
22 posted on 03/13/2004 5:58:53 PM PST by Hildy (A kiss is the unborn child knocking at the door.)
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To: AntiGuv
Cripes! I wish they had kept it a secret! Now that Redmond, WA company, what's its name, will surely find a way to fill it up with its bloatware. More idiotic features in WORD 2005 to come.
34 posted on 03/13/2004 6:19:25 PM PST by Revolting cat! ("In the end, nothing explains anything!")
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To: AntiGuv
"Woohoo!"

You and me, both! I've got 2 HD slots left in my tower. A new Hitachi is definitely gonna fill one of them! Hehehehe

40 posted on 03/13/2004 6:30:09 PM PST by Bonaparte
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