For what would you ever need a Single or multi TB HDD for?

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OK, now I know people have some HUGE amounts of memory used on there HDD. But why in the world would you need a TB? :confused: How in the world could you use a TB? Tell me, who for what reason is a TB needed? (ex:international records of everyone in the world)-doubt that would be a true contender.
Give me an explanation. It doesn't even have to be an "at home" thing. Get creative. :rolleyes:
 
ADE said:
OK, now I know people have some HUGE amounts of memory used on there HDD. But why in the world would you need a TB? :confused: How in the world could you use a TB? Tell me, who for what reason is a TB needed? (ex:international records of everyone in the world)-doubt that would be a true contender.
Give me an explanation. It doesn't even have to be an "at home" thing. Get creative. :rolleyes:
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You can make backups and sometimes they can get pretty big. And you can get TV Capture cards and you can record whole seasons like 24 or Family Guy and those can take up alot of space. I recoreed 24 season 5 on my computer and i recored it on the setting that used the least amount of HD space and that took up about 90 gigs of HD space.
 
If you are seriously into video, lossless video takes a huge amount of space. My non-video data records (not backup) on dvd must be about 2000Gb. Would be nice to have on hdd with another as backup.

A TB is not a big deal these days. If you have a business dealing in graphics or video, or daily backups, a TB may be what you start counting in. That's only 250+ single layer dvds.

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Gee I must be 1/2 way there with the two 250gb drives currently in the new build here(250x2=500gb=1/2 of 1TB). I hate trying to split a drive up and still run out of room when there is about 187gb of video data on the drive. Moving a few 13gb video files around here is nothing new. But having to reformat a drive without that second storage drive can see a big loss there. I wish they still had three device cables for having a third drive along with a large SATA array. That would finally provide enough room. Or maybe a pair of 320gb ide drives with a pair of 500gb? SATA drives still won't be enough?
 
two words: bragging rights.
i think the point of a terabyte is just to say that you have a terabyte. personally i use an internal 250gb internal hard drive which i plan on using in a server someday... i use maybe 1/3 of it. i prefer hard drive speed over hard drive size though. my friend has a 500gb hard drive in an extra server for a fileserver for all of his friends on his college network. he just wants to be the guy to do it.... they dont need it, but he does it just for the pure convenience.
other people i think just have tons and tons of games and videos on their computers. i know one guy who encodes his songs at 320kbps VBR which is a ridiculous amount of bit rate for encoding songs. i think 128kbps is standard and i use 192kbps. there are probably a million reasons to have 1tb on a computer... but im sure most people just want the bragging rights, or are just super nerds and spend all their time collecting files and such.
 
Bragging rights bull. I watch Star Trek and I know that storage to brag about is measured in teraquads.

Keeping stuff on your pc for convenience is just that. So what? I'm guessing running DOS as the OS is a good space saver?

320Kbps is CD quality. You want crappy 128Kbps that's fine. I reflect back to movies I recorded on a vcr in extended play and wonder how I could have been so stupid. Today's best quality is tomorrow's marginal.

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Such drives really have no use in a home users enviroment. I mean they are fine, but very few people actually use such space. Me, I hardly used up my previous 80G drive, so obviously my 160 is overkill!

Places that do need such drives... Ever think of backup at say a hospital? I beleive the drive for the one department I worked in was 400GB and over half full.
 
it all depends on what your doing to be fair. I recently added more space to my system, currently I have 1.2 TB worth of HDD now and currently have about 800 gig of it filled
 
Once you get into something like heavy downloads of video and music, or video capturing, and even creating large files in any amount of quantity like graphics design, engineering, etc. you would be surprised to see how fast the 80-160 even 250gb gets chewed up.

For gaming and web browsing the average user will never have a need for storage of over a few hundred gig as a rule. When getting into other things were large capacity drives have a place you still can be cramped at times.
 
1TB isn't all that much. I don't know of anyoen with a SIBGLE TB drive, but I know a few people with seperate drives taht are easily over 1TB.

Lots of pron, lots of DVD's (whole collection on backup?) lots of music (again, entire collection). Every PC game they ever loved and wanted to keep. All school files, etc. If I had the time, I could fill up 1TB with pure media (mostly video, second would be music.
 
Gee do you think if I added a pair of 400gb SATA drives for an array on a new build here I would top the 1TB mark? 500+800gb total would be... :eek: 1.3TB!
 
I remember a time when you got a computer and have a 2GB HDD and say "I didn't know the come that big." Or think "there's no way I can use up all of that." It seems unimaginable these days. But what comes after Terabyte?
 
Probably something like "Zigabyte" if not "Quadrabyte". And after that you will most likely see the "Quintrabyte". Hextrabyte? You can sure that this would still be a few years but not many from now. Some 700gb SATA drives have found their way lately from what I've heard. How about a 2.5TB drive to replace the old 2.5gb model? ATA1000
 
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