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zekrahminator

Jan 3, 2007 10:43 PM

Seagate: 300 terabyte hard drive will arrive by 2010

Seagate announced a while ago that they would use heat-assisted recording technology once perpendicular recording reached it's limits. And as development of heat-assisted recording technology continues, Seagate has discovered that they can store much more data on a drive than they initially thought. Seagate claims that they can stick 50 terabytes in a square inch of data, meaning a standard 3.5" drive can hold a whopping 300 terabytes of data. That's equivalent to 6,144 50GB Blu-ray disks, the entire PlayStation 1, 2, and 3 library with room to spare, or the Library of Congress.

Source: The Inquirer

Namslas90

Jan 3, 2007 10:49 PM

Well now all intrested can expand their porn file also.

zekrahminator

Jan 3, 2007 10:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Namslas90 (Post 226053)

Well now all intrested can expand their porn file also.

:roll: Dude I don't think there is 300 terabytes of porn...

PVTCaboose1337

Jan 3, 2007 10:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zekrahminator (Post 226056)

:roll: Dude I don't think there is 300 terabytes of porn...

No... answer me this: How big is the internet? How much of the internet is porn?:laugh:

Namslas90

Jan 3, 2007 10:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zekrahminator (Post 226056)

:roll: Dude I don't think there is 300 terabytes of porn...

There is easily that much available in Europe alone, your young yet, you'l learn!!lol:laugh:

PVTCaboose1337

Jan 3, 2007 10:56 PM

http://www.w3schools.com/images/downloadwww.gif

Random Murderer

Jan 3, 2007 10:58 PM

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Originally Posted by PVTCaboose1337 (Post 226070)

http://www.w3schools.com/images/downloadwww.gif

lol!

peach1971

Jan 3, 2007 11:19 PM

Lol, that´s one of the best PC related fake gifs I´ve ever seen...

Quote:

heat-assisted recording technology

Mh.. sounds hot ;)

OneCool

Jan 3, 2007 11:48 PM

I think my Jassie James collection will fit on that :pimp:

WarEagleAU

Jan 4, 2007 12:22 AM

Rofl, that is hillarious. Good God, with one 300 Terabyte HD, No one would ever need to buy HDs really again, until they die out that is. I love it. Hell, Id love a 1 TB drive with a 300 GB raid of 150GB 10000 RPM SATA drives :)

AsphyxiA

Jan 4, 2007 12:34 AM

ill buy 2 and download the internet LOL

Murasame

Jan 4, 2007 12:45 AM

Terabytes? pfft that so last century. I'm waiting for the petabyte 15krpm drives in raid 0. Then I will officially be able to store as much porn as I want.

Wile E

Jan 4, 2007 02:59 AM

Damnit, just when I was ecstatic about reaching 1.25TB. lol

Track

Jan 4, 2007 07:45 AM

So they find a new technology that allows them to put 1,000 time more space on HDDs??? Thats just crazy..

DanTheBanjoman

Jan 4, 2007 07:52 AM

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72387-0.html

Wired speaks of 50Tb. Which is more likely since data density always is in bits, not bytes.

kakazza

Jan 4, 2007 08:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Murasame (Post 226219)

Terabytes? pfft that so last century. I'm waiting for the petabyte 15krpm drives in raid 0. Then I will officially be able to store as much porn as I want.

Yeh, I too want to increase my chance of data loss as I get more space!

Thanks DanTheBanjoman for the link, I guess theINQ screwed up again.

ex_reven

Jan 4, 2007 11:50 AM

LMFAO loved the GIF...

Say you DID download the internet...how would you backup :p?

Murasame

Jan 4, 2007 11:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kakazza (Post 226466)

Yeh, I too want to increase my chance of data loss as I get more space!

True, but if that does happen I'll be able to say "Damn my hard drives crashed and I had the internet saved on them!"

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