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noopypoop
10-16-2007, 05:12 PM
i was looking at something bout hard drives. look what it said u can do with 750 gb


cool 750GB. That's enough capacity to let you watch movies back to back for three months without seeing the same film twice; to listen to 1.6 years of continuous music without ever hearing the same track; or to store a Word document so long that even if you started reading it at birth, you'd die before you got half way through it.
and thats just 750gb, imagine what you could do with more then a tb:D
Omega
10-16-2007, 05:35 PM
the real question is: What are the encoding rates of the music and movies? I bet that if you used 32kbps MP3 it'll be WAY over a year or if you use FLAC it'll be way under that.
noopypoop
10-16-2007, 05:50 PM
who carse its still prettey amazing, i never thought we'd get even close to a full year of music
noopypoop
10-16-2007, 05:51 PM
heck, i didnt even think we'd get over a week!
.Maleficus.
10-16-2007, 06:07 PM
1 Week = 168 hours.

= 10080 minutes.

Average Song = 3 Mintues.

= 3360 songs.

Nowaday music players pretty much START at around 7,500 songs. We've made leaps and bounds past one week. Now about that battery life...
Zephik
10-16-2007, 06:17 PM
Now about that battery life...

Yea no kidding. Massive hard drives aren't that surprising or "nerdgasm worthy" anymore, but massive battery life would definitely be worthy of getting super excited over.

There was some news about nuclear batteries that could hold a thirty year battery life awhile back. Its been around for thirty or fifty years or something like that. You think they would be able to start producing some result by now! Even one hundredth of that would be awesome. Then again, my mouse is supposed to last near a year of battery life, so far so good too. But thats thanks to the mouse, not the batteries.

I think this is the technology thats being used for those ultra long lasting batteries...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betavoltaics
Spawn-Inc
10-16-2007, 07:03 PM
according to Hitachi they should have 4TB Desktop drives and 1TB Laptop drives by 2011.

http://www.news.com/To-advance-drives%2C-Hitachi-changes-the-head/2100-1041_3-6213386.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news

i have 2 250's (the new and old seagate models 620AS and 410AS<new and faster one) right now and plan on a second 410AS to set up raid 0. then i will get a 750 for backup :)
Bucko
10-16-2007, 08:16 PM
I looked at the 750Gb and 1TB drives, but they were too expensive per Gb for me, so I bought two 500Gb Samsung drives for AU$185 each, which was cheaper than a single 750Gb drive.
Gen.Omega
10-16-2007, 08:26 PM
I got a single 700GB SATA drive for $80.00. lol.


according to Hitachi they should have 4TB Desktop drives and 1TB Laptop drives by 2011.

http://www.news.com/To-advance-drives%2C-Hitachi-changes-the-head/2100-1041_3-6213386.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news

i have 2 250's (the new and old seagate models 620AS and 410AS<new and faster one) right now and plan on a second 410AS to set up raid 0. then i will get a 750 for backup :)

Saw that in Maximum PC. I cant wait, My laptop could use another TB. Maybe 2.
slytherock
10-16-2007, 11:03 PM
and if you're editing movies: 2weeks and you're HDD is full :D
Helix666
10-17-2007, 02:07 PM
slytherock: need one of these then:
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=673576
xmastree
10-17-2007, 03:02 PM
Hmm, wait till the next version of MS Word comes out and that last part won't be true any more...
slytherock
10-17-2007, 03:23 PM
slytherock: need one of these then:
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=673576

I have 2 of those ;)
Spawn-Inc
10-17-2007, 03:42 PM
i think the biggest i've seen was 6TB (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822709013).
chaksq
10-17-2007, 06:20 PM
Wait around long enough and a 1TB thumb drive drive will be considered small. I remember when 1GB was thought huge.
Helix666
10-17-2007, 06:50 PM
Spawn: :eek: ...

That is pretty cool.
It would probably take forever for be to fill 6TB.
(Although, the same was said back in the day of 500MB HDDs.)
slytherock
10-17-2007, 10:37 PM
I always feel like the weirdo with HDDs... I had 1.4TB 4 years ago, and I was filling it up...
Spawn-Inc
10-17-2007, 10:58 PM
haha, did u ever delete anything? now that i have 500 i won't delete anything major, just small stuff.
slytherock
10-17-2007, 11:33 PM
I delete everyday a lot of stuff...
Last of my improvment is my file server. All my music, photos and stuff like that is stored there: 1,5TB. It saved space on my mains computers for a couple of days. But I filled it too, now I'm back to burning DVDs, again...
Cevinzol
10-18-2007, 03:41 AM
Bwahahaha I have a 40 gig drive and it still has 15 gigs free!
Now THAT's old school.