New 1TB Drive Announced

[Krellion]

Engadget - Hitachi breaks 1TB hard drive barrier with 7K1000 (http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/hitachi-breaks-1tb-hard-drive-barrier-with-7k1000/)

There is also mention of a DVR-specific version.

[TydalForce]

Sweet! That's what I've been waiting for to make it worth my while (and risk my warranty) to crack open my S3

I think I'll wait for the DVR-specific model

[Eskimo Pie]

and when the 1TB DVR drive is available there will be rumor of a 1.5TB drive... and then rumor of a 2TB drive...

[TydalForce]

oh, you didn't see the 300 terrabyte drive due in 2010?

http://www.macsimumnews.com/index.php/archive/seagate_working_on_300tb_hard_drive_for_2010/

[dswallow]

oh, you didn't see the 300 terrabyte drive due in 2010?

http://www.macsimumnews.com/index.php/archive/seagate_working_on_300tb_hard_drive_for_2010/
http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/8350/52/

-Correction- The 300 TB is actually terabits, and not terabytes. Therefore, the new Seagate drive in 2010 will store approximately 37.5 terabytes, and while that's just over 10 times smaller than a real 300 terabyte drive, it's still massive compared to the drives we are using today. And who knows what we'll have by 2011, or 2012!

[TydalForce]

Aw geez that sucks. Makes more sense, but is far less impressive ;-}

Even still, my god what could I do with 37TB?

[AbMagFab]

Store lots of video with Tivo To Go. And your 52 megapixel camera pictures. And you digital 1080p HD camera footage of your family and vacations.

[TydalForce]

maybe I'll get a few of them and RAID them ;-}

Ah, I'm a sick boy... lol

[Bierboy]

-Correction- The 300 TB is actually terabits, and not terabytes. Therefore, the new Seagate drive in 2010 will store approximately 37.5 terabytes, and while that's just over 10 times smaller than a real 300 terabyte drive, it's still massive compared to the drives we are using today. And who knows what we'll have by 2011, or 2012!Not according to this. (http://davisfreeberg.com/2007/01/03/seagate-working-on-300-terabyte-hard-drive/) But, then, he could be wrong.

[dswallow]

Not according to this. (http://davisfreeberg.com/2007/01/03/seagate-working-on-300-terabyte-hard-drive/) But, then, he could be wrong.
That predates the correction and is using the same language as the original article... the "yes that's terabytes" remark is really all about the "tera" not the "bytes".

[sommerfeld]

maybe I'll get a few of them and RAID them ;-}
based on what I've seen, I wouldn't use them (or any other high-capacity disk) in a non-redundant configuration. Certainly not RAID-0, and most likely not in a single-disk config.

[ewilts]

Store lots of video with Tivo To Go. .
You're assuming we'll have TTG by then :-)

.../Ed

[jdmass]

Particularly impressive in the Hitachi announcement for the 1 TB drive is the $399 suggested retail price. I have a "peewee" sized" Hitachi 250GB in our S2 and it works great. I'll definitely give this one a look.

[suaspont]

Ok. I'm an old-timer. Once upon a time, back when computers where the size of refrigerators and I worked in Silicon Valley, we did a study and determined that the most space anyone would ever need to keep all of their personal information was a whopping 20 megabytes.

That was before MP3, TiVo, digital cameras, and the like. I'm sure that if someone builds a 300 terabyte drive, it will be filled up. Then 20 years later, 300 terabytes will seem as quaint as 20 megabytes does today.

[deeremj]

I noticed that Seagate has also announced 1tb, almost twice the price as Hitachi...hopefully a db35 variant will be available. -MJ

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=5582

[SystemJinx]

I've heard about Seagate's 1 terabyte model. I plan on buying one for my S3 when the price drops to a reasonable price. As for Hitachi, I don't really know what kind of reputation they have with hard disks.

[yunlin12]

Anyone realize that 37TB is 3000-5000 hours worth of HD video? At 10 hour a day, it would take a whole year to watch everything on a 37TB drive.

Take one more step to the physical extreme, there are total of 6-7 million cones in human eye that are sensitive to color, there are more rods (120 mil), but they are B/W only. So I think video resolution should hit a wall when we get to 6 million pixels per frame. We are now at ~1 million. So the video files will grow by another 6X in size, and even with that, you'll have 500-800 hours worth of video stored on a 37TB driver. Will we need more space past the point of what we human can physically consume?

[MikeMar]

Anyone realize that 37TB is 3000-5000 hours worth of HD video? At 10 hour a day, it would take a whole year to watch everything on a 37TB drive.

Take one more step to the physical extreme, there are total of 6-7 million cones in human eye that are sensitive to color, there are more rods (120 mil), but they are B/W only. So I think video resolution should hit a wall when we get to 6 million pixels per frame. We are now at ~1 million. So the video files will grow by another 6X in size, and even with that, you'll have 500-800 hours worth of video stored on a 37TB driver. Will we need more space past the point of what we human can physically consume?

ohhh you could fill up 500 hours no problem!!

just record like every show, and you could saves SEASONS of all your shows to watch whenever :)

be awesome to have every single 24 from season one til now in high quality on your tivo ready to go :)

[mattack]

oh, you didn't see the 300 terrabyte drive due in 2010?

Are those bytes made out of dirt? (Just kidding..)

something like: I'm glad I'm down to terra firma
"The firma the terra, the betta."
--name that source

[Adam1115]

Anyone realize that 37TB is 3000-5000 hours worth of HD video? At 10 hour a day, it would take a whole year to watch everything on a 37TB drive.

Take one more step to the physical extreme, there are total of 6-7 million cones in human eye that are sensitive to color, there are more rods (120 mil), but they are B/W only. So I think video resolution should hit a wall when we get to 6 million pixels per frame. We are now at ~1 million. So the video files will grow by another 6X in size, and even with that, you'll have 500-800 hours worth of video stored on a 37TB driver. Will we need more space past the point of what we human can physically consume?

My series3 reports my 500 Gig HD as 65 HD hours... so 37,000 Gigabytes (or 37 TB) would only be 1203 hours.. :D

[vman41]

Take one more step to the physical extreme, there are total of 6-7 million cones in human eye that are sensitive to color, there are more rods (120 mil), but they are B/W only. So I think video resolution should hit a wall when we get to 6 million pixels per frame.

Visual acuity isn't evenly distributed across the eye's field of view.