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Seriously though
The article makes mention of how many trees of paper, how many truckloads of books, blah blah... But it's not text documents or even databases that are driving the requirement for more space on a single unit, it's the video. Now I think I've heard mention that you deal with video, so I can see how you would welcome more space at a cheap price. For a guy like me who works for a small company and deals with mostly documents, spreadsheets, and and databases (the biggest is just under 20 GB), speed is much more important than size. For programmers speed would be more important too.

So the question is how much of a market is there for 8 TB drives. Is the video market that big, or is it considered a niche?
Posted by: Michael Kelly   Posted on: 02/28/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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No doubt about it, massive storage is required.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 02/28/06
Yeah, it is required  Michael Kelly | 02/28/06
I figure I'll 6.4 TB  voska | 02/28/06
Seriously though  Michael Kelly | 02/28/06
A big IF  voska | 02/28/06
Not sure  Michael Kelly | 02/28/06
Not an issue  voska | 03/01/06
Drive Size vs Arrays  Wolfie2K3 | 02/28/06
Wotts to stop us  s_gamgee | 02/28/06
No, they've been selling a 64-bit version of Windows for around 4 years.  PB_z | 02/28/06
RAID, HERE I COME!!  CobraA1 | 02/28/06
$400/TB  baldwinleo@... | 02/28/06
Hard Drives vs. Trees  ZStoner | 02/28/06
So maybe SCSI isn't dead?  No_Ax_to_Grind | 02/28/06
Nope.. Tis dead. Stick a fork in it.  Wolfie2K3 | 02/28/06
Nope it isn't  voska | 03/01/06
Windows Vista is Bloated and Full of Swiss Cheese Holes  Evisscerator | 02/28/06
YET another Linux fanboi heard from... (NT)  Wolfie2K3 | 02/28/06
Give it time  m-nature | 03/01/06
Cool, but... failure rate with several disks is...  MV_z | 02/28/06
Ermmm. No  nucrash | 02/28/06
But then you'd not have 8 TB  voska | 03/01/06
Sort of  voska | 03/01/06
Scarily big...  zkiwi | 02/28/06
Old rule of thumb : data will expand to fill all available storage.  JonathonDoe | 03/01/06
8 TB's on Windows?  LocoMojo | 03/01/06
How about 8 Picobytes?  metilley@... | 03/01/06
Umm.. 8 Picobytes is a very small amount  mombo | 03/01/06
SIZE  SC-man | 03/01/06
RE: Coming soon: The 8-terabyte desktop  COMMANDOF4 | 06/23/09
RE: Coming soon: The 8-terabyte desktop  COMMANDOF4 | 06/23/09

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