What would you do with 1TB?

Hitachi reckon their new 1TB drives will be commonplace by 2007.

So what kind of things will we be able to do with 1TB?

My 40Gb iPod has about 7000 music mp3s on it, so I could have... 175,000 songs on a 1TB drive.

A DVD quality movie is about 8Gb, so I could fit 125 movies or 400 hours of movie footage. If I had a wearable device that recorded and stored all of the footage of my day, I could keep an hour of footage from every day for over a year. On a single drive. That will cost about $300.

I remember my first PC, 1995, Windows 95. Cost me $5000. Had a 100MB hard drive. That seemed so enormous at the time. Now I've got 5 times that on a card the size of a thumbnail in my XDA. We're talking about a 10,000 times increase in 11 years for a fraction of the price.

Okay, now that you've got your head around that... think about this:

What will you do when you have a couple of those in your home, one in your car, one in your PDA/phone, one in your camera?

and

How big will our drives be in 2016? 10,000 x 1TB? Whaddya call that? 10 petabytes?

Is computing dead? Mein Gott in Himmel der vunderplatt Herr Captain!

Comments

[Nicole Simon]

vunderplatt? (im Himmel please ;o)

I can tell you one problem with bigger harddrives (I don't mind so much the size, I would have a use for it): The annoying humming sound from these freaking big harddisks.

I have not encountered one big hard drive in the last months which has not had this high turntable humming sound - and my pc has a new harddisk with exactly that. :o(

And the newer laptops? Often so loud with their fans (very annoying if you skype with such people) because they are so 'powerful'. :(

[Rob Barac]

HAH!!!

Windows 95? Try Windows 3.11 on an IBM PS/2 (http://www.intersplice.com.au/blog/2005/04/do-you-remember-when-286-was-rocket.html).

1TB will hold a lot of absolute crap. Do you notice you don't clean your drives out on a regular basis anymore? I have 3 installations of Age of Mythology... don't ask why.

Mate of mine once swapped a car for 8KB of RAM.