Terabyte

[djblackmon]

Okay, this is just a poll from curiosity(spelling?)

Who thinks a terabyte is nessecary?
1 terabyte is 1000 gigabytes

To me it is just too much, no one will ever need it, unless you download every game and song ever made!

 

[Evolution.]

If you do alot of video editing/capturing, it is definitely necessary. A few TV capture devices I've seen require about 100GB/hour for recording.

 

[ExigeEvan]

Yeah. If you're into your Video work, or even an avid photographer who takes lots of high MP photos you'll probably fill it eventually.

 

[the Interceptor]

I thought I'd never fill those 320 GB I got me some time ago. Not even a year later, they were full. Yes, I'm going to need a terrabyte.

 

[Flame-returns]

I will need a terabyte, not today, not tommorow, but I am nearing the point where more storage becomes necessary and I have quite a big hard disk.

 

[daan]

The PC started out with a memory limit of 640kb. They thought we'd never need that.......

 

[emad]

My first pc had 1.5gb, we filled that up by the end of it's life cycle (about 3 years). My second had 10, that didn't last long either. My third had 40 gigs and I thought that was massive, but it was only two years till I added a 160gb drive. My current pc has 660gb and I'm aching for more. I built it just over a year ago, and I plan on adding *at least* a terabyte within the next year or so. My next pc which will probably be built in about two years will most likely have 1 terabyte of storage + another 2 or 3 in network attatched storage....

 

[Pako]

The best thing about a Terabyte(s) is the amount of storage you have. The worst thing about a Terabyte(s) is the potential of data loss is that much greater. 2TB in a mirror raid Ultra 320 SCSI @ 15,000 RPM drives would be cool...

 

[opendriver]

I only have a 20GB hard drive (25GB without windows and all of the other stuff) I have a ton of music and games on it. I have a stack of 50 CD-R's that are all full of data.

In the future (5 or more years) I am planning on building an Uber 1337 desktop. Most likely going to have 2 TB of space

 

[Evolution.]

Right now I have a 160GB, and 104GB is free. I don't tend to use a whole lot of disk space. I remember always having to delete files a few years ago on my 18GB hard drive, and it's still a habit (even though I have 104 more free GB at my disposal, I find myself deleting files to save space ).

 

[PLmatt91]

I wouldn't need a terabyte just yet. The new 40GB HDD I'm looking into buying for my programs and OS will just be for that, I'd use this 80GB for my main drive now as a data one then, and I'd buy a 320GB HDD also for everything else and use my 120GB in my external enclosure to store VERY NECESSARY files.

 

[Intel_Celeron]

i don't need one now.

i will get a TV tuner card(for TV on my computer) & i'd be recording things to my HDD


plus there is no 1024GB(1TB) hard drive you need 2 500GB HDD on a RAID 0

 

[Evolution.]

i don't need one now.

i will get a TV tuner card(for TV on my computer) & i'd be recording things to my HDD


plus there is no 1024GB(1TB) hard drive you need 2 500GB HDD on a RAID 0

Would you like to bet on that?

 

[German Muscle]

ive seen many multi terabyte servers and quite a few 4+ terabyte servers. They are definatly needed for certain applications.

 

[TopHat]

Even though I voted yes, I have never used more than 80 percent of my HDD, and that took 4 years of sparratic use. You would need a TB if you do a lot of iMovie in HD.

 

[djblackmon]

Meh, you guys all changed my opinion now. Now I feel I need it, the reason I had voted no is because I have three computers, but now that you look at it, I have 123gb left from 178gb in 1 year(downloading songs). My main memory usage(s) is downloading music, and saving race videos from the tracks. Well since the music industry is getting bigger, and I got three race cars in the driveway I too will soon need a terabyte!

 

[amp88]

I voted "Yes" even though I think the only people who actually need a terabyte or more of storage are businesses. No home users really need to have that storage but many of them want it. I have 1120GB and I'm looking to get another 500GB hard drive some time in the near future.

 

[dbartucci]

The more storage available the lazier programmers get and the more bloated programs will be. You can't even install Office Suite without taking a few GB nowadays.

 

[Intel_Celeron]

Would you like to bet on that?

no wonder it's out of my price range.
Plus it is no a internal(i was talking about inturnal HDD)

 

[TS]

I won't need one in this decade.

 

[Evolution.]

no wonder it's out of my price range.
Plus it is no a internal(i was talking about inturnal HDD)

You didn't specify.

And with some duct tape and a fan, you can make that internal.

 

[Lightning]

1 Byte = 8 Bits
1 Kilobyte = 1024 Bytes
1 Megabyte = 1024 Kilobytes (1048576 bytes)
1 Gigabyte = 1024 Megabytes (1073741824 bytes)
1 Terabyte = 1024 Gigabytes (1099511627776 bytes) 1 trillion, 99 billion, 511 million, 627 thousand, 776 bytes.

1 TB equals: 8796093022208 or 8 trillion, 796 billion, 93 million, 22 thousand, 208 bits. ^^

In other words, over 8 trillion values of 1 or 0.

18,446,744,073,709,551,616 <----- 2 ^ 64

18 pentillion, 446 quadrillion, 744 trillion, 73 billion, 709 million, 551 thousand, 616

Above value is the amount of different values a 64 bit integer can hold.

In theory here, addressing (64 bit processors now are only using 53 bits of addressing though) for a 64 bit processor could support easily a terabyte of RAM.

 

[amp88]

1 Terabyte = 1024 Gigabytes

Not so in the case of storage/network products. Their manufacturers believe in the use of base 10 numbering, not base 2. To them 1 terabyte is actually 1000 gigabytes, not 1024 gigabytes (which is the main reason why a 300GB hard drive is only shown as a ~280GB drive in reality).

 

[CDailey]

I wish I had a TB of storage. My brother is nearing two TB in his rig.

 

[Klostrophobic]

Yeah, I could definitely plow through a terabyte of storage. I've got a 250 gigger and I delete stuff off of it all the time.

 

[Jay]

Like others I thought I would never fill my current HDD with this computer ( 220gb), but I am now often struggling for room.

So yes I imagine I will need a Terra in the near future.

 

[toyomatt84]

I've got about 60 DVD's burnt off of my HDD's so far, and I've tapped my 550gig capacity numerous times. When I get a new job that can support my bills for my car, a house, and other daily items... then I'll be throwing about 3-4grand into building my 7th personal PC. I'm thinking roughly 2terabyte in storage space, with 4 150gig raptors as the OS Drive (for data transfer speeds).

There isn't a singular HDD that matches 1terabyte yet, but it's in the design stage at Seagate (if memory serves me right). Right now, the largest purchasable internal Hard Drive, is a 750gig model from Seagate (http://www.seagate.com/cda/products/discsales/marketing/detail/0,1081,756,00.html).

 

[GilesGuthrie]

My first hard disk was 40MB. My digital camera uses 4GB CF cards, and writes ~15MB to the card (3MB JPEG + 9-11MB RAW)for each shot, so there's an indication of how storage demands increase. My camera's not even that hungry: the Canon EOS 1Ds MkII writes a 15MB JPEG and a 50MB RAW file for each shot.

My current computer uses a pair of 250GB drives paired for a 445GB RAID0 array, which has 100GB free. The data component of this is synced to a Linux server with a pair of 300GB disks in a RAID1 array.

So I already have 1.1TB of disks in use, and am storing 202GB of personal (i.e. not applications or sample) data.

I would suspect that I'll have over 1TB of available online storage on my personal computer before the end of the decade.

 

[wfooshee]

The PC I use for video editing only has 160 GB for my clips drive, and a 60GB for OS and apps. I move stuff back and forth to tape while it's in progress, to make space for whatever else need to be done.

I will definitely need terabyte-level storage at some point, especially when everything goes HD.

I haven't gotten a bigger disk yet, even though externals of 300GB or more are pretty cheap now, because I'm gonna redo the whole thing soon, might go with a server chassis and a SCSI array.

 

[Der Alta]

As picture resolution improves, both Still and Video the need for more storage and faster access will always happen. Think of playing a video game at near lifelike quality. That would take an amazing processor, incredible graphics card and huge amounts of storage.

Think of playing GT4 in lifelike qaulity. Smooth shiny cars, 20 per race, no "pop-ups" in Tokyo R246, drifting clouds, changing shadows, temperature variations, lettering on the car tires. You'd need gigaflops of storage to accomodate that.

You've limited your thoughts to a few years. I can remember playing the original Mech Warrior on a 40 Megabyte harddrive. AutoCAD being delivered on 3 1/2" Floppies. I've even worked on a 10" floppy mainframe.

The quest for lifelike reproduction of images, video, and gaming are what drives the storage race.

Absolutely I'll need a terabyte. In 5 years, I'll need 15 terabytes. My phone will have more memory than my computer has right now.