The Terabyte Hardrive

Jimbo wrote: Honestly, does anyone really need a terabyte harddrive? Don't think so. I think it's ridiculous that nowadays people seem to have huge amounts of (useless) data/music on their computer. 10-100 gb should be entirely sufficient to most people, but instead of settling for that, they download huge amounts of music they're never going to listen to. A friend of mine has 250gb of music on his computer, and despite being an avid music listener, he just admitted the other day that he's never listened to at least half of them. Maybe it's just me, but the whole phenomenon seems silly and completely pointless.

Well not if you just store music. But games nowadays are a whole different story. You'd think BG1 was big in the old days which took up about 3Gb in space. Well guess what! Oblivion, for example, is 5Gb and NWN2 is 6! You can imagine that having just 5 such games on your pc already cost you 30Gb. Not to mention probable mods and savegames(which take up a lot of space too: NWN1: 50 mb per save). That would be almost a third of a 100Gb drive. Then account for music and program files and about a quarter of your HD free so you can defragment; a 100 Gb drive gets choked up quite fast.

Scapler wrote:   The professional community has had terabyte storage systems befoire this, this hardrive is just the first commercial one

Not really the first system, but definitely the first commercially available terabyte single disk. I'm pretty much satisfied with my internal 120GB and external 250GB though (120 for dual boot Windows/Linux, 250 is half music, half technical documentation for my job).