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Look what I found: A One TeraByte External Harddrive!

But I'm not very technical and so, but unless you have firewire 800 in your system, the data-throughput is crap.
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<font color=lime>Cool! That would be nice for movie storage. :D </font>

*drools alot*
*sees he needs G4 for FireWire 800*
*curses*
*Drools again*

For God`s sake why would anyone want to have 1 TB HDD?! It`s freakin too large!

You won't be saying that in about three years or so. Rumor has it that Longhorn will need 8.6 GB to install. Even if that's untrue... man, that is a freakin 1 000 000 000 000 bytes!!!

No Xen, when talking about hard drive space and RAM, there is only too small, there is no too large.

No Xen, when talking about hard drive space and RAM, there is only too small, there is no too large. </font>[/QUOTE]Ok maybe. Anyhow my point is that 256 or 512 RAM , 80 or 120 HDD is pretty sufficient for the games of "modern age".

1 TB = 1,024 GB = 1,048,576 Mb = 1,073,741,824 Kb = 1,099,511,627,776 Bytes

Unfortunatly the manufacturers always use the same figure as you in there calculations, so technicaly this hard drive is probably 90Gb short of 1 TB :(

i really hate when they do that :(

Yes, I know, a Terabyte is actually closer to a terabit than an actual terabyte, but hey, what can I say?

whatthe?? i wonder how long for a Hard drive to hard drive transfer will be for that :D

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The actual size is really 1024GB, a device can't calculate wrongly. But OS uses resources, so you'll end up short in the end anyway... :|

And if this behemoth gets an internal IDE or whatever version, I'm getting it ASAP! No more space problems for the rest of....... for a while :D
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It would be good for video editing, it just chews it up.

wait till you defrag your entire 1tg (when its full).. you will need a week for that [img]tongue.gif[/img]

wait till you defrag your entire 1tg (when its full).. you will need a week for that [img]tongue.gif[/img] </font>[/QUOTE]...unless u have a 5ghz processor to go with that! :D

I want one... [img]smile.gif[/img]

Bought 40 gb last summer and was hoping it would last at least for a year... nope... no chance... but it's better than the 6.4 gb I had before... [img]smile.gif[/img]

Well you can always tell how much space the OS is to store metadata since each file under properties has a "size" and a "size on disk" attribute. The former is the actual size in bits - so yeah some space is always wasted but you gotta have somewhere to store the security settings and status flags.

Believe it or not, sometimes Vaskez makes sense. :D

Harkoliar, you're not allowed to talk anymore...GOSH, I only have a 700MHz chipset! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! but is it really necessary to defrag an external?

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I never defrag period. No need to. It sucks.
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I have to agree...

I can never get it to work anyway...

if you never defrag id hate to see how slow your computers are moving! honestly, its not hard to do and really speeds up your pc. windows 2000 up should do it fine always, and for 9x series you need to kill all background processes. [img]smile.gif[/img]

yep. And if you want a guaranteed defrag (i.e no not working or stopping in the middle) then run your computer in safe mode, that is a sure fire way to get it to work

hmmm
will try that...

1 Terrabyte is good but it's never enough! Running a 60GB, 80GB and 120GB in this thing and still need more space! Only bad thing with a hard drive that big however is that when they finally do release them in internal drives they would probably mean me selling my internal organs to afford it...heh

jesus Bokken, what the hell have you got on your comp that takes up a total of 260gb!!?!!

260?!?!?!?!?

I only have 10 Gb and i survive just fine. Only two games installed at once though :D

Well I've got a hell of a lot of games and programs to begin with. I'm a computer technician so I also keep backups of every damn piece of software I own. Among things anyway.

To put it simple though I instal windows and any programs I use on drive C: (60GB)

All games go on D: (80GB)

All backups go on E: (120GB)

May seem like much but it actually isn't if you put it that way.

Oh and just fyi about a year and a half ago I was still running a 3.2GB HDD and a 233MHZ NEC Versanote with a 2MB graphics card. Thinking back to it now it's sad knowing I finished BG2 on it. Had to keep the comp clean from most software just to instal it and give it a big enough cache so my graphics card didn't die out on me and stutter like a geizer. Helped a bit but not enough!

Sorry mate, but this shows that you obviously have no idea what fragmentation is and hence why you need to defrag. The only people that never need to defrag are those that don't run any applications and hence the content of their hard disk never changes - i.e. virtually no one.

I wouldn't ask if I were you, unless you want him to discuss x-rated material on a family board :D


Johnny - glad I make sense to you, no one else understands us jokers anyway :D

[ 01-24-2004, 03:55 PM: Message edited by: Vaskez ]

No it isn't, most hard drive manufacturers (including this one apparently) use the IEC definition of a gigabyte, which is defined as 10^9 bytes, so a terabyte would them be 10^12 bytes. The size isn't calculated incorrectly, its just the standard is weird. What you are describing would, according to IEC, actually be a "tebibyte" (1 TiB) I'm not making this up. I believe that the ISO definition also uses the 10^9 Bytes definition of 1 GB. It is a rather stupid standard, but as far as hard drives it's what the manufacturers go with.

Yeah I've heard of mebibytes and tetibytes ROFL

yes windows 2000 and above works great actually for the defrag. win9x is not very good at defragmenting at all unless its in safe mode.

Hey Vaskez if you wanted some all you had to do was ask! *LOL* j/k

Hey Vaskez if you wanted some all you had to do was ask! *LOL* j/k [/QB]</font>[/QUOTE]Don't worry I have my own sources :D ;)

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Hey Vaskez if you wanted some all you had to do was ask! *LOL* j/k </font>[/QUOTE]Don't worry I have my own sources :D ;) [/QB]</font>[/QUOTE]dont we all... [img]graemlins/uhoh1.gif[/img] I mean, you sick little man! May you rot in hell for your sins! [img]graemlins/whackya.gif[/img] (whew, that was close)

Hey Vaskez if you wanted some all you had to do was ask! *LOL* j/k </font>[/QUOTE]Don't worry I have my own sources :D ;) </font>[/QUOTE]dont we all... [img]graemlins/uhoh1.gif[/img] I mean, you sick little man! May you rot in hell for your sins! [img]graemlins/whackya.gif[/img] (whew, that was close) [/QB]</font>[/QUOTE]I object to the word "little". Ain't nothing little about me, I'm 6'4" thank you very much! :D

Bit off topic but DAMN that's some serious quoting going on! *LOL*

Don't ya just love the IW board software's nested quoting feature? :D

Yeah I ususally try to break it down a bit but I get a brain cramp just looking at that one above...heh