Comments on: What Would You do with a 1.5 Terabyte Hard Drive?

By: Farkes

Farkes — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 04:32:58 +0000

Store every abandonware game ever created?

By: D Barriga

D Barriga — Mon, 11 May 2009 15:50:55 +0000

In 1982, we had our first family computer. It was a clone of Apple II, had 64 kB of RAM, no hard disk. A few months later we bought an external 5.25 in. diskette drive. Each diskette can store 360 kB which was enough to store several arcade games. You can have pacman, galaxian, apple invaders, apple panic, crazy climber, etc. with just 1 diskette.

By: mrogi

mrogi — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 23:43:44 +0000

1.5 Terabytes? I will need 4 times that much space to contain my porn collection?

By: David P

David P — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:10:03 +0000

Just bought a 1TB HD for the movies I’m backing up. I have 312 DVD’s and some have 3 movies in them. My Q: Do you think thats enough space to put these movies in? :(
PS. Half my movies date from 1922-1950, and most are only an hour long. Ty

By: Brad456

Brad456 — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:14:53 +0000

I have 2.5 terabytes right now.
with 100 meg of free space.

I need a 20 terabyte harddrive yesterday.
then I can worry about what I need today.

what about the terabyte optical disc that many have been promising over the last 8 years.
I need it now.

By: Rarst

Rarst — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:06:08 +0000

>At 700 MB per movie, 1.5 TB would hold 2247 movies. Not a whole lotta people have collections like that.

700Mb per movie is too small for a modern rip. :) HDTV and such takes more space than ancient AVI.

By: Otis

Otis — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:40:22 +0000

At 700 MB per movie, 1.5 TB would hold 2247 movies. Not a whole lotta people have collections like that.

By: Bruno

Bruno — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:51:26 +0000

yea Dre, I remember it, because ZX81 was my first computer, I still have it with his box and it works. Me too, my first PC was a 8086 at 8Mhz. We speak about capacity, performance but rarely about hardware’s quality.

By: Stephen Lynch

Stephen Lynch — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:27:14 +0000

I just got through with backing up 500+ disk CD collection. I want my kids to experience the joys of listening to Black Flag, Miles Davis, Sonic Youth, etc.

What would I use the 1.5 TB disk for? Well, I have books and videos, too….

By: Kid British

Kid British — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:52:21 +0000

I love the idea of huge drives, but having had a HDD fail on me in the past I can’t help but feel worried about the prospect of losing 2TB of data if a disk goes faulty.

By: Rarst

Rarst — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:47:02 +0000

>Pretty soon solid state hard drives will make 20TB storage capacity commonplace.

Or not. They are still extremely expensive and not all believe that they are best possible variant.

btw hybrid (HDD+Flash) drives failed miserably and were pretty much dropped… I remember lots of hype about them as well.

By: mrogi

mrogi — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:24:26 +0000

Pretty soon solid state hard drives will make 20TB storage capacity commonplace.

By: thunder7

thunder7 — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:26:12 +0000

never mind the 1.5TB check this
“Hitachi to launch 5TB hard drive by 2010″
http://www.pclaunches.com/hard_drive/hitachi_to_launch_5tb_hard_drive_by_2010.php

By: thunder7

thunder7 — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 02:42:07 +0000

I download all the killer freeware and Open Source programs that I find, and movies.

I have already filled up 4 hard drives (2) 250GB (2) 80GB just with personal data. My raptor [74GB 10,000 RPM] just has Windows XP pro on it.

I could fill up a 1.5 TB pretty quick with programs. And burn DVD’S all winter long.

And as I normally do I give these programs away with the url’s of where they came from.

My personal data though i have been collecting since Windows 95.
Yes, I have a OCD!.

By: David

David — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:50:01 +0000

www.demonoid.com? There goes your 1TB of space.

By: bmunch

bmunch — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:30:07 +0000

I would use it as a backup for my other 1 terabyte HD. That’s life, the more disk space you have, the more backup space you need…

By: Josh

Josh — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 08:40:01 +0000

people neeed this kind of space, especially when dealing with raw footage of something, say, HD film editing, WAV files for music etc. MP3′s may only take up a few megabytes for one song, but if you are mixing a track yourself you may find you have hundreds of different takes of different instruments all in .WAV files which could take up a LOT of space.

By: MrD666

MrD666 — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 06:04:58 +0000

I myself got 1 TB of storage (500GB WD 7200) and another 500GB WD External 7200). Both are SATA, and I wouldn’t ever go back to anything else. I would of bought another one, but my wife wouldn’t let me (yet!)… We are living abroad, and my wife likes to watch FAMILIAR TV shows, so we store all of them on the drive(s). She takes it with her on trips, as I do with our EeePC or the other laptop. I would like to have another 2 TB so I could put all of the DVD movies we got on there as well. I find it better than amassing tons and tons of burnt out media. Media becomes useless after a while and bulky, honestly.

By: Dre

Dre — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 05:29:36 +0000

Wow… my first pc was a pc-xt with a 8088 processor running at blazing 4.77Mhz and i believe 512kb of ram… It had a 10Mb hd…. my first computer was a brazilian tk-85 a clone to the sinclair zx81 with a cassete player to load and record programs/codes… I’m only 30y/o anybody remember those??

By: Greeze

Greeze — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 03:44:09 +0000

My first computer didn’t have a hard drive: http://www.atarimuseum.com/computers/8BITS/1200xl/1200xl.html

When I finally have over 1TB of storage, it’ll be filled with TV series and movies. The games will go on my current drive until I get bored of them.