I'm sure the government has had terabyte hard disks for some time. They come up wioth everything before it is released to the public. It's either the government, Microsoft, or Google.

Few companies make disks that size, and those that do aren't really pushing them. Sure, you'd be able to store a lot more stuff, but a lot of people don't realize that the computer actually has to look for the stuff on the disk before it gets used. You might not realize it right now since hard drives are relatively small compared to that, but the wait would increase by a lot if you have that much information on one disk.

It won't take long before we all will need terrabyte hdds, just look at how everything is exploding in size. 2 years ago a movie would be on a vcd at only 700mbs, now movies come on dvds and you need 4gbs just to store one movies. Games too evolved form the standard 1-2 cds(700-1400mbs) into the typical new game at dvd size. Thats 20 movies/games for a 80gigabyte hard drive.

My friend has a 1.2tb sever, but its made out of 3 400gb hhds. We all ripped our music/games/movies/anime we've accumulated all life(legal stuff for backup and lan parties) and it came out to 800gbs. So it is possible to fill a tb with legal stuff.

Hehe..why do ppl need soooooo much disc space to have 97% free???

I really dont understand that...Ok lets say 500gb and this is moooooore than enough but that much..i dunno..

I guess programs are goin to become so big that we will need that sort of discs...

I have to agree with him.. I could fill a TB easily.. I'm dying with only 120GB.
But then.. I remember when I only had a 20GB HD, and didn't think I could ever fill it, so.... who knows. Even if you dont think you need a TB now, you will some day.. ^^;

Lol, Imagine that. It would probably take a year or so to defragment a hard drive like that. LOL.

I would definetely like to have one, but then I would have to have a faster processor. I bet that about the time those hard drives are commercial enough to be bought at a good price there will be a fast processor counterpart. Probably in an other year or so. I think it would really help because I ate up my 80 gb in about half a year recording music, so I bought an external one.

Not so much... I wish I had I have one of 200 GB but partitioned in four.


I don´t think it´s a problem to fill one terabyte... just without burning cds or dvds for a while, everybody can do it

Remember when hard drives were measured in megabytes? Wasn't that only a few years ago? What would you have said if someone had come to you and told you that storage space would be multiplied by over a million times in less than ten years?

I'll try to put things in perspective here for all you youngsters.
In 1988, I worked for a Company that was running a remote computing system off of a PDP11, tape based machine. Then we got a "new" computer system. (A couple of 386 machines).
Not connected to each other. We had to store info on disks and hand them to the other person for them to load into their machine.
The machine I had to work with had a whopping 10 Meg Hard Drive. And I think 64 K of RAM. We used an IBM-Dos operating system that came on a single floppy. ONE of them. Not the High capacity hard shell disks, a real floppy disk. Anybody remember them?
How much space does windows xp require to run these days? Of course, Windows XP lets you do a whole bunch more than the o/s's we were using. Any of the current Operating systems with the GUI's are better than the 'command line' os's.