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Bigger optical drives on the way
« on: August 24, 2007, 02:38:34 PM »
With all the latest news on Hard Drive space growing out of bounds a co. has announced they are close to 1 TB (terrabyte) optical drive storage on a single disk...

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Re: Bigger optical drives on the way
« Reply #1 on: August 24, 2007, 02:41:41 PM »
That would be sweet...

I wonder what the access speed would be?
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    Re: Bigger optical drives on the way
    « Reply #2 on: August 24, 2007, 02:46:56 PM »
    only problem is, Gates & Jobs are going to be the only people able to afford these new ones *   :(
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    Re: Bigger optical drives on the way
    « Reply #3 on: August 24, 2007, 06:06:17 PM »
    Around $3000.00 retail to start...
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    « Reply #4 on: August 24, 2007, 06:25:19 PM »
    I wonder if it'll be available in blue?
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      « Reply #5 on: August 24, 2007, 06:48:37 PM »
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      Re: Bigger optical drives on the way
      « Reply #6 on: August 25, 2007, 03:54:50 AM »
      Quote from: The Saviour on August 24, 2007, 06:25:19 PM
      I wonder if it'll be available in blue?
      But I want a green one . . .
      1Tb on a single optical disk sounds good, but personally I'll stick with my hard drives for now.
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        Re: Bigger optical drives on the way
        « Reply #7 on: August 25, 2007, 04:24:09 PM »
        You can get 1TB hdd for a much cheaper price but then it is a bit larger.
        I thought BD (Blueray Disk) was a high storage (60GB) for an optical drive.
        I guess I was wrong.

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        Re: Bigger optical drives on the way
        « Reply #8 on: August 27, 2007, 03:30:46 PM »
        Would be pretty amazing to fill that with MP3 songs.  ;)
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        Re: Bigger optical drives on the way
        « Reply #9 on: August 29, 2007, 04:13:56 AM »
        Good for backing stuff up, otherwise I think it's a waste of money.
        What are you going to put on a 1TB disk? Are you actually going to put all your music on it and play the music from there  ???
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        Re: Bigger optical drives on the way
        « Reply #10 on: August 29, 2007, 05:00:37 AM »
        I'd be weary of putting ALL my important files on one disk.

        I'd probably lose the disk, or something similarly stupid. And knowing my luck, thats when I'd have a serious problem with the computer, heh.

        Good idea, but I think storage capacity that high should be left for HDD's to take care of.

        P.S. I bet in a few years that statement will sound crazy, there will probably be 1TB USB pens by that time, haha.
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        Re: Bigger optical drives on the way
        « Reply #11 on: August 29, 2007, 05:25:11 AM »
        Lol, What would you put on a USB Memory Stick with 1TB of storage?

        100GB would be enough for me. :P
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        « Reply #12 on: August 29, 2007, 08:02:02 AM »
        The 1990s called, they want their ell-oh-ell back. People in the 1980s famously said "What would you do with more than 640K or RAM?"

        If I had a 1 TB memory stick I'd put lots of movies, TV series, and music albums on it. My DVD player has a USB socket and plays mpeg4 and mp3. Also a complete OS backup. That's just for starters. I'm sure I could think of lots more things.





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        Re: Bigger optical drives on the way
        « Reply #13 on: August 29, 2007, 08:24:49 AM »
        Quote from: Carbon Dudeoxide on August 29, 2007, 05:25:11 AM
        Lol, What would you put on a USB Memory Stick with 1TB of storage?

        100GB would be enough for me. :P

        I am willing to bet my life on the fact that you have upgraded or bought extra storage space within the last 5 2 years because you "need" more space?

        Almost all applications, video/movie formats etc require more space on your hard drive so with advancing technology requires advancing storage medium to keep it... I remember when I bought my first 40GB hard drive thinking "I wont need any more space than this..."

        Who knows what the standard computer will have for specs in the next 5-10 years.

        But my main point is... If a 1TB USB stick was available... I'd really want one, heh. :P
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        Re: Bigger optical drives on the way
        « Reply #14 on: August 29, 2007, 08:43:48 AM »
        My first PC was a PC-XT with 640K of RAM and a 32 MB hard drive. Last month I bought an external 320 GB hard drive. That is ten thousand times bigger. Face it, storage gets bigger and cheaper.

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