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Offline Tac

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« on: October 15, 2007, 09:11:13 AM »
'soon'

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071015/ap_on_hi_te/hitachi_hard_drives;_ylt=AtXWyRj4o0udFSRGnETk.EWs0NUE

"Hitachi Ltd. says its researchers have successfully shrunken a key component in hard drives to a nanoscale that will pave the way for quadrupling today's storage limits to 4 terabytes for desktop computers and 1 terabyte on laptops in 2011."

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Offline john9001

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« Reply #1 on: October 15, 2007, 09:18:42 AM »
ah, getting ready for the next microsoft bloatware OS.
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Offline Maverick

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« Reply #2 on: October 15, 2007, 11:03:26 AM »
:rofl :rofl :rofl  :confused: :huh :furious :furious :furious :furious :noid
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« Reply #3 on: October 15, 2007, 11:09:38 AM »
Can you imagine how long it would take to defrag that thing?  Start on Monday, you might be ready to go by the weekend.
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Offline Mickey1992

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« Reply #4 on: October 15, 2007, 11:39:18 AM »
I would think that R&D money would be better spent coming up with bigger and faster solid-state memory to completely replace the spinning hard drive.
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« Reply #5 on: October 15, 2007, 04:09:33 PM »
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I would think that R&D money would be better spent coming up with bigger and faster solid-state memory to completely replace the spinning hard drive.


Then again the two guys who developed the technology did win the Nobel prize for physics this week suggesting this is the best the world can do for the moment.
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« Reply #6 on: October 15, 2007, 06:38:42 PM »
Great....  4 TERABYTES.   Just how much crap do you need to keep on your machine?  

Go ahead.  Put DVDs, all the music ever recorded and the library of congress on your laptop.  Then go virus scan all that crap (or scandisk it when windows moofs up) and wait while 4 TB of files gets itself sorted out.  Good luck - bring a book.

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« Reply #7 on: October 15, 2007, 06:47:35 PM »
Well, 4 TB is a 700-900 normal DVDs, so...  no.

Anyhow, 4 TB....  oughta be enough for anybody.  ;)
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Offline Russian

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« Reply #8 on: October 15, 2007, 07:05:57 PM »
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Anyhow, 4 TB....  oughta be enough for anybody.  ;)

I think I heard that before.  

Who would in their right mind need 8mb of ram... lol
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Offline AKIron

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« Reply #9 on: October 15, 2007, 07:08:24 PM »
I remember thinking who would ever need more than 64KB of ram, and later, more than 30MB of drive space?
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Offline rabbidrabbit

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« Reply #10 on: October 15, 2007, 07:08:38 PM »
Think of all the great graphics space from AH4!
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Offline Mr No Name

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« Reply #11 on: October 15, 2007, 08:22:59 PM »
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I remember thinking who would ever need more than 64KB of ram, and later, more than 30MB of drive space?


Didnt Bill Gates once say "No one will ever need more than 640K of memory"?
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« Reply #12 on: October 15, 2007, 08:48:02 PM »
That's not....  entirely accurate, but I was making fun of it.

http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/1997/01/1484
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« Reply #13 on: October 15, 2007, 08:55:46 PM »
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That's not....  entirely accurate, but I was making fun of it.

http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/1997/01/1484


Yeah,  its all a plot by Steve Jobbs to make Bill look bad:D
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Offline Saxman

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« Reply #14 on: October 15, 2007, 09:19:43 PM »
And thus did God invent partitioning. :D
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