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Title: First 2tb hard drive!
Post by: computeruler on March 28, 2009, 01:26:45 PM

Western Digital has made the first 2tb hard drive!!!!!!

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136344

Title: Re: First 2tb hard drive!
Post by: paudashlake on March 28, 2009, 05:47:48 PM

Good for them, but why bother?  Nobody uses 2tb in their home/office computer....  Even 500gb is too much in my eyes!  I mean, I have a 500, but I have ever only used 60gb max. (| (| (| (| (| (| (|

Title: Re: First 2tb hard drive!
Post by: computeruler on March 28, 2009, 06:44:05 PM

I have 160 but I could use a lot more than that.  Wanna trade  ;D

Title: Re: First 2tb hard drive!
Post by: paudashlake on March 28, 2009, 06:47:57 PM

uhh.....no  It has been touched by an intel............................... and vista!!!!!!!!!!!!!


-pukes-

Title: Re: First 2tb hard drive!
Post by: macdad- on March 28, 2009, 06:54:31 PM

Heck...i only use half of my 20GB HD  ;D

But this would come in handy for say web servers/database servers.

Title: Re: First 2tb hard drive!
Post by: JJ 3000 on March 28, 2009, 10:54:45 PM

or video editing

Title: Re: First 2tb hard drive!
Post by: kpac on March 29, 2009, 04:43:45 AM

I have over 100 gigs of software alone.......

Title: Re: First 2tb hard drive!
Post by: computeruler on March 29, 2009, 07:12:27 AM

I have tons of software too!! Probably something arounf 100gb  I only have 10gb free space.

Title: Re: First 2tb hard drive!
Post by: soybean on March 29, 2009, 11:08:19 AM

Quote from: computeruler on March 28, 2009, 01:26:45 PM

Western Digital has made the first 2tb hard drive!!!!!!

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136344

That is amazing.  I can't imagine ever using that much space.  My 80GB drive still has plenty of space for me.  I could create new MS Office files and accumulate more email every day for the rest of my life and not run out of space. 

Title: Re: First 2tb hard drive!
Post by: patio on March 29, 2009, 11:21:19 AM

My benchtest machine has 2 500G Seagates and a WD 250G....
Of course it also runs 7 OS's and all different types of Apps...

Title: Re: First 2tb hard drive!
Post by: macdad- on March 29, 2009, 01:14:32 PM

Quote from: patio on March 29, 2009, 11:21:19 AM

My benchtest machine has 2 500G Seagates and a WD 250G....
Of course it also runs 7 OS's and all different types of Apps...

 :o Nice one, i just thought you had a Tri-Boot system.

Title: Re: First 2tb hard drive!
Post by: BC_Programmer on March 29, 2009, 02:49:22 PM

Quote from: macdad- on March 29, 2009, 01:14:32 PM

:o Nice one, i just thought you had a Tri-Boot system.

That's me with my laptop.

Don't really boot into XP on it though.


regarding the hard drive- data storage and other industries often get larger hard drives before they reach the consumer market- for example the IBM 3380. This was the first 1GB drive ever created and it was not that long ago, it was created in 1980. :P The beast weighed 250 kg and cost US$142,000. Most consumers would require a layaway arrangement for that- or a second mortgage.