Seagate, my sponsor, is getting ready to ship 1TB hard drives. I’ve always wondered why I’d want more than one. Now I have a good reason. Wired News is reporting that Google is working with Space Telescope Science Institute to make one of the largest transfer of data the world has ever seen: 120 terabytes. Whew.
All the data that the Hubble telescope has ever captured.
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March 20th, 2007 at 11:40 pm
I want one!
Funny isn’t it? I remember when 1MB was unheard of.
March 20th, 2007 at 11:59 pm
Brent: I remember when getting a floppy drive for your Apple II was very cool.
March 21st, 2007 at 2:14 am
I remember my cassette tape drive for my Vic 20…the envy of all my friends.
March 21st, 2007 at 2:32 am
what is 1TB????sorry for being ignorant
March 21st, 2007 at 3:11 am
I remember when it was all just fields!
March 21st, 2007 at 3:41 am
One of the rist thigs I did when I started work was help to install a new double 8 inch floppy drive in our PDP11 took 2 men to lift it into place and a third to steady the drive from the back.
BTW did you see the Inventor of FORTRAN died a few days ago.
And podtech realy ought to do a video on the spacex guys
http://spacex.com/updates.php
March 21st, 2007 at 3:42 am
120TB..Wow,this is great for all p2p people. ;)
March 21st, 2007 at 3:46 am
“640K of memory should be enough for anybody”
Jay, from Bangalore
http://ideaburger.blogspot.com
March 21st, 2007 at 5:56 am
@4. 1 TB == 1 terabyte == 1000 GB (gigabytes) == a ton of storage on a hard drive. My laptop has 50 GB, and these new drives hold 40 times as much.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terabyte
March 21st, 2007 at 6:17 am
@9 & @4 I believe in all the excitement a small typo makes for a HUGE difference! Laptop of 50 GB, and these new Seagates hold “20″ times as much! 40 times would be 2000 GB (40×50) or 2 TB. They’ll probably have that out in 3 months, just like the first processor roll outs; every 2 weeks saw a new speed.
March 21st, 2007 at 6:22 am
You’ll be stunned how fast those HD videos of the new baby from your new HD camcorder eat up 1TB drive after another! :)
March 21st, 2007 at 6:45 am
I’d get two of them and set them up as RAID 1. Right now I’m using a Buffalo TeraStation which uses 4×250G drives, which I have configured as RAID 5 for a total of 750G.
March 21st, 2007 at 8:04 am
How can you more pathetically pitch your advertiser?
March 21st, 2007 at 8:12 am
As me and business partners used to say “Never underestimate the bandwidth of a truckload of tapes”. Funny it is still holds true 10 years down the line…
March 21st, 2007 at 8:46 am
At Omnidrive, we moved to the Seagate 750 drives shortly after they were released (after thrashing them with testing) - we eagerly await the release of the 1TB drives!
You can’t think what you can do with just one, well, I say that within a few months of release we will buy *hundreds* of the 1TB model
March 21st, 2007 at 8:49 am
Whats a floppy drive? ;)
March 21st, 2007 at 9:14 am
Robert, have you thought of changing your picture at the top of the blog to a more wind in your hair, exposed chest, Chris DiBona like one?
March 21st, 2007 at 1:01 pm
He’d look too much like his hero –The Breck Girl, John Edwards.
:lol:
March 21st, 2007 at 1:26 pm
I wonder how much the Seagates will go for. I remember buying an external Maxtor drive in ~1996: $250 for 250MB.
March 21st, 2007 at 2:08 pm
Seagate hasn’t abandoned eSATA have they? Seems like it, USB2 and FW, ugh. The ole’ ST3500601XS-RK is a beaut. So any 1TB eSATA’s?
March 21st, 2007 at 8:09 pm
I remember when we counted with little lumps of just cooled lava … and were my feet hot!
Actually, I do remember the old Purple Data Pushers — they were the reason I got into computers. At work we had a copy of the original Dungeons and Dragons (pre “Adventure” and “Zork”) on the 8″ dual (!) floppy drives and I learned to access the computer during my lunch break (yeah …, thats what it was … “lunch”) so I could play the game. What I discovered was that the computer was a real-life form of the game. You had to solve puzzles, know the secret passwords, spells, and other esoteric knowledge and at any point either a thief would zip by and steal your treasures or else the troll under the bridge would come out and get you.
Sometimes I wax nostalgic for manually almost-booting with the front panel switches, the twisted and torn punch tapes, IBM card mispunches and a dropped-torn-spindled-and-mutilated deck, inaudible audio cassette drives, the constant clacking of the floppy drives, and the shear volume of a room full of Telex machines. And if you believe that, I’ve got some beachfront property to sell you!
Thanks for the memories.
-eef
March 21st, 2007 at 9:08 pm
Correction: 1TB = 1,024GB = 1,048,576MB
March 21st, 2007 at 11:11 pm
@10 - my bad on comment @9: bad math or typo, one or the other :)
It’s a big drive, that’s all that matters I think. I still have some 2.1 GB drives here on the desk …
March 22nd, 2007 at 2:15 am
I use a 540 Megabyte drive in my firewall that is beside me. Why, because it is fun to hear it click away. Clicks are a poor man’s top. We don’t need no steenking guis
March 23rd, 2007 at 5:26 am
Speaking of early technology, though a bit later than Apple’s 5.25″ floppys…
Anyone remember Lisa’s (And Apple’s) first hard drive? It was external, big and heavy, 5 Megabytes, took somewhere around 5-10 minutes to boot the Lisa, and cost $2495.00.
Years later, the 160 Meg Seagate drive died on my 4-month old Mac IIx. This was in the day when Apple’s warranty was 90 days, even though Seagate’s was 1 year. No amount of complaining changed my fate- $1700.00 for a new 160M drive.
Yesterday, after a Drive Genius bug nuked my SATA 250G drive, I went to Best Buy and bought an external FireWire/USB 2.0 Seagate 750G drive for$335.00, give or take a few singles. Oh, and it’s full today. Temporarily, while I resurrect data.
BTW, I do have a huge drive with all the Hubble data on it. A virtual one, anyway. The internet!
March 28th, 2007 at 2:47 pm
I remember my first PC had 4.3 GB and I used to wonder what in the world I would need so such space for…. now I have more than 600 GB and still need some more space…
one thing I do know now is no matter how much space you have, its never enough !!!
Now I am waiting when I am gonna be able to run my PC entirely on solid state storage… that would be cool.. at least for now…