YOu will have a job of trying to fill one of these babys

[sirkillalot617]

Truly massive harddrive.http://www.scan.co.uk/products/productinfo.asp?WebProductID=548462

[Redundant]

Pretty cool that you can use RAID on it (from which my name is derived...)

That got me wondering: how much of your harddrive do you actually use?
I have a 150gb one in this notebook and only 22gb used (including one decrypted DVD; I,Robot=7gb)

+rep to you

EDIT: Can you imagine trying to fill that with USB? lol It would take hours...

[Drew]

I got 2 HDDs in this shed.

HDD 1 - total size = 4.01Gb
free = 252Mb

HDD 2 - total size = 8.01Gb
free = 7.53Gb

My, what a powerhouse.....

[Zephik]

LOL! Nice Drew, Nice...

I just bought a 320GB and I sold my 200GB External to my friend for a new graphics card (Its in the mail! YES!). The 200GB is full and I've used about 30GB on this 320GB. You can fill up HDD's real fast with movies, tv shows, and other graphical type dealios. So that HDD is definitely a sweet spot for some people. Good find! +1rep

Is 1000GB a terabyte? I thought it would be 1024GB = 1TB?

**Check out this bad boy...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822154073

[sirkillalot617]

dunno but i use tons of space becuase iv ripped tons of my dads old vhs movies onto hard drives for him

[Bucko]

I have used about 50Gb of my 320Gb drive so far and it's only been in less than a month.
Mind you a lot of that is music and games.

[Redundant]

Is 1000GB a terabyte? I thought it would be 1024GB = 1TB?

A terabyte could mean either, if it was RAM, it would be 1024, as a HDD it's 1000.

Have you ever read the notes at the bottom of a ready made PC site?:

Hard drive: For hard drives, GB means 1 billion bytes and TB equals 1 trillion bytes
That's from the bottom of the Dell site. You can find that on the bottom of the spec page of any ready made PC site (HP, Dell, Toshiba, Sony, Apple, etcetera...)

[Reyer]

i wonder if there will ever me a petabyte hard drive, it would take up a whole room

[luciusad2004]

How much hard drive space do i use?

I have 20Gb in my laptop and i have trouble using more than 12. But i don't do much with it, mostly web browsing and music. I ripped my entire music library to it but i only have like 300 or 400 sumthing songs.

I'm waiting for the day when we can have a terabyte ;in a standard internal hard drive. I thought i read somewhere that someone is working on it.

Edit: Did a bit of googleing Click me (http://news.com.com/Here+comes+the+terabyte+hard+drive/2100-1041_3-6147409.html)

[Bucko]

i wonder if there will ever me a petabyte hard drive, it would take up a whole room


Why stop there? I want a yottabyte drive!


1 septillion 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes — 10008, or 1024.
1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176 bytes — 10248, or 280.

[Redundant]

Actually, that would be a VERY bad idea. Can you imagine what that would do to a company if it lost EVERYTHING because it only had one harddrive?! The company would be lost and the CEO would commit suicide.

As for them taking up a whole room, that also will never happen because the power that would require to move so much mass. And if it did get up to speed and wasn't _perfectly_ made, it would destroy the building from the wobble and centrifugal force...

[luciusad2004]

Actually, that would be a VERY bad idea. Can you imagine what that would do to a company if it lost EVERYTHING because it only had one harddrive?! The company would be lost and the CEO would commit suicide.

I'm sure they wouldn't just have one at least not in a corporate environment.

[Nagoshi]

I believe a terabyte is actually 1024Gb. An kilobyte is 1024bytes, meg is 1024kb, gb is 1024mb, terabyte would be 1024gb? that's from what I know, and unless I'm wrong on the 1kb=1024b...

[blue73]

I believe a terabyte is actually 1024Gb. An kilobyte is 1024bytes, meg is 1024kb, gb is 1024mb, terabyte would be 1024gb? that's from what I know, and unless I'm wrong on the 1kb=1024b...


Nah Yer spot on. Anyways I've got a 300gb hdd in my Xbox and a 250gb and 125gb hdd in my PC. Thats over half a tb. All tunes and a bit of, cough, movies.. I guess a tb wouldn't be that hard to fill really..It all depends on how compressed Your files are. Still a very cool device though. Nice.

[luciusad2004]

Edit: I was wrong. See below. Sorry about the misinformation

[Zephik]

Why stop there? I want a yottabyte drive!

1 septillion 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes — 10008, or 1024.
1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176 bytes — 10248, or 280.

I wonder how much YouTube uses?

[Omega]

I think that is only for ram. I think its like that because the number of bytes is always a multiple of eight

8, 16, 32, 64, 128.

Im not exactly sure why but i think it has to do with they way memory is stored in ram chips.

It's not a multiple of 8. It's an exponent of 2.

2^0=1
2^1=2
2^2=4
2^3=8

etc

[Exley]

I think that is only for ram. I think its like that because the number of bytes is always a multiple of eight

8, 16, 32, 64, 128.

Im not exactly sure why but i think it has to do with they way memory is stored in ram chips.

Its for both They just cant get away with it when selling ram because of the way the computer alotocates the sectors (or something like that)
Wikipedia Link (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix)

[nil8]

I have 1.3tb on this machine.
4 250 drives and 1 300 gb drive.

Petabytes exists in large server farms. Similar to the idea of an OC192.

[simon275]

The biggest single drive (with multiple platters) is "quoted" as having 750gb.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822148152

[luciusad2004]

It's not a multiple of 8. It's an exponent of 2.

2^0=1
2^1=2
2^2=4
2^3=8

etc


Its for both They just cant get away with it when selling ram because of the way the computer alotocates the sectors (or something like that)
Wikipedia Link (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix)

Thanks for clearing that up for me guys.

[sirkillalot617]

http://shopping.bit-tech.net/UK/product/12462225/LaCie_Bigger_Disk_Extreme_W_Triple_Interface_Exter nal_2TB_Hard_Drive/

Iv found an even bigger one now 2tb thats 2000gb

[Zephik]

haha, I win!

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822154073

or...

http://www.superwarehouse.com/Sun_Microsystems_StorEdge_3511_FC_3TB_Hard_Drive_A rray/XTA3511R01A1W3000/p/406837

Expected from Voodoo...

http://www.ehomeupgrade.com/entry/2186/pow_first_8tb

and just for kicks and giggles...

http://techpaedia.com/apple/2006/08/21/macbook-wants-4tb-of-hard-drive-space/

[armadilloben]

LOL! Nice Drew, Nice...

I just bought a 320GB and I sold my 200GB External to my friend for a new graphics card (Its in the mail! YES!). The 200GB is full and I've used about 30GB on this 320GB. You can fill up HDD's real fast with movies, tv shows, and other graphical type dealios. So that HDD is definitely a sweet spot for some people. Good find! +1rep

Is 1000GB a terabyte? I thought it would be 1024GB = 1TB?

**Check out this bad boy...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822154073

you know i ask myself the same question quite often
then again the only way you could really make a terabyte array was if you had some sort of drive that was like 512 gig or 256 gig etc. of course your never going to get true 1024 gig cuz it needs to be formatted

[Zephik]

Drives should come with that extra bit of space for when you format your hard drive. That would make me so happy its ridiculous...

[Aero]

I've got several HDD's:

120 - 30 free
120 - 6.58 free
250 - 144 free
13 - 7.74 free
60 - 23.1 free
40 - 35 free

that be my setup, its spread over 2 desktops, a laptop, and a USB HDD.

[sirkillalot617]

haha, I win!
lol I admit defeat I should have known the americans always build bigger and better than us brits

[Omega]

My HD's:

E:\ 80GB IDE
D:\ 160GB SATA

[Daruvian]

Wow people... Dang... I see some low HD numbers there... I have over 1TB in my main PC now internally... (1x74 GB Raptor and 2x500GB Barracudas in a raid) And then I have 1x40GB external (built from the HD from my old HP notebook that died) and 2x250GB Barracuda externals... For a total of 1.6TB or so... LoL The sad part is, I have about half of that used already...

[mellojoe]

Yeah I'm on a dual setup over here.

I have my old 15GB drive and my new 20GB. Rock on.