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   #10. Posted at 12:19 PM on Oct 15th 2007 Edit   Reply
DASQ
I need prices on drives to drop faster. The 1TB's are still too pricey, but the 750GB is not large enough as a single drive (don't bother trying to suggest RAID/JBOD/anything).
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#10, Hey now, some of us remember when a big harddisk was [b]10MB...  :  continuum  (#29)  «

   #23. Posted at 07:19 PM on Oct 15th 2007 Edit   Reply
crabjokeman
Did someone say 'Hitachi' and 'perpendicular'?

http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/research/recording_head/pr/Perpendicu...
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#23, Oh man, I want to see the cartoon for this one. The head AND...  :  MadManOriginal  (#24)  «
#24, The idea was first proposed in the '70s by a professor at...  :  just brew it!  (#26)  «
#26, I see. So why was it only introduced so recently? Sure...  :  MadManOriginal  (#28)  «

   #3. Posted at 11:12 AM on Oct 15th 2007 Edit   Reply
nagashi
by then we'll all be torrenting blu-ray rips. I've got 2 completely full 750gig hds right now =/
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#3, That is if Internet speeds continue to increase. I don't see...  :  Flying Fox  (#4)  «
#4, I'm already dling rips. 4 gigs/blu-ray at 720p, theora en...  :  nagashi  (#6)  «
#4, 10 megabit connections should be more than common enough ...  :  DreadCthulhu  (#7)  «
#7, Are they really torrenting 30 Gigs? I thought I read t...  :  indeego  (#12)  «
#12, I was just giving a theoretical number, just in cas...  :  DreadCthulhu  (#17)  «
#7, Wel for me, speed isn't the problem, volume is. Most I...  :  Saribro  (#15)  «
#7, lol! that surely doesn't make to much sense as torrent...  :  albundy  (#27)  «
#3, I didn't realize one could be so prideful of breaking the la...  :  Usacomp2k3  (#18)  «
#18, If by breaking the law you mean fair use and breaking DRM...  :  indeego  (#19)  «
#19, The post he was responding to mentioned torrenting rip...  :  just brew it!  (#25)  «
#18, What rock have you been living under? :P  :  crabjokeman  (#22)  «

   #9. Posted at 12:08 PM on Oct 15th 2007, Edited at 12:09 PM on Oct 15th 2007 Edit   Reply
Joerdgs
I wonder if you'll ever have a 1 TB game.... Elder Scrolls 9 maybe? :-)
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#9, You think games will suddenly not take advantage of progress...  :  indeego  (#11)  «
#9, That is like 20 single-layer BR discs!  :  Krogoth  (#20)  «
#20, Or 1 Holographic optical disk from 2094!  :  indeego  (#21)  «

   #16. Posted at 01:22 PM on Oct 15th 2007, Edited at 01:22 PM on Oct 15th 2007 Edit   Reply
marvelous
What we need is faster hard drives without the noise.
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   #5. Posted at 11:27 AM on Oct 15th 2007 Edit   Reply
SpotTheCat
Hard drives will be larger in the future. Good to know.
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#5, "THE DISTANT FUTURE. THE DISTANT FUTURE."  :  ssidbroadcast  (#14)  «

   #13. Posted at 12:31 PM on Oct 15th 2007, Edited at 12:34 PM on Oct 15th 2007 Edit   Reply
provoko
My demands are 100 billion dollars or else I will release the Giant Magneto-Resistive Heads!!!

Damn man, 4TB. I've got a total of 600gb so far, and I haven't even downloaded that much porn... yet.
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   #8. Posted at 12:07 PM on Oct 15th 2007 Edit   Reply
Krogoth
More Pr0n!
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   #2. Posted at 11:05 AM on Oct 15th 2007 Edit   Reply
prashu
will help reduce the datacenter size of rapidshare :P
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   #1. Posted at 10:49 AM on Oct 15th 2007 Edit   Reply
droopy1592
If they put a 3-5 year warranty on these things... I won't buy many! One will be fine, thanks... instead of the 4 drives I have now.
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