Have you heard? 1.2 petabytes

1,024TB i believe

To put that into perspective, mega is 1,024 times kilo, giga is 1,024 times mega, tera is 1,024 times giga and peta is 1,024 times tera
 
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Actually.

1GB is 1000MB according to HD manufacturers

And to Windows, 1GB = 1024MB, which is why when you buy a 250GB HD and only get 233GB.

The way Windows reads it and the way the manufacturers label it are different things. Just like Monitors, a 19" monitor only has 16-17" viewable.
 
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Ku-sama said:
1,024TB i believe

To put that into perspective, mega is 1,024 times kilo, giga is 1,024 times mega, tera is 1,024 times giga and peta is 1,024 times tera
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holy crap....can i say it again....that is an amazing jump from storage capabilities...hopefully it wont cost a load though:D
 
there is no way in hell, well except maybe for micorsoft or governments, that someone will need all that storage space, its crazy :P
 
True, but don't forget, that about 20 years ago, a 10MB hard drive was standard. Now, it's not that uncommon to have 1TB (100,000 times the size). 20 years ago, people would have laughed if you said you could use that much space, and yet some people do. 1PB is only 1000 times the current storage capacity, so in that sense, in another 20 years, it may not seem so enormous. Now granted it's portable storage, and it's always dangerous to predict future trends in this way, but my point is that disk capacities do expand rapidly over the years. Comparing a 1.44MB floppy to a 4.7GB DVD or 30GB Blu-ray disc, also gives an idea of how capacity can expand.
 
Hehe,

well I remember getting my 8GB HDD back in 1997. It was huge and I thought it was impossible to fill it up. Now given the current size of programs, images or even raw video, it would be very hard filling that up. However, video will have a higher resolution and since space will no longer be an issue, you could watch it at super high quality. Now I know that is theoretical, but believe me when I say that something along these lines will happen...perhaps sooner than you think.

JAN :D
 
MasterEVC said:
Actually.

1GB is 1000MB according to HD manufacturers

And to Windows, 1GB = 1024MB, which is why when you buy a 250GB HD and only get 233GB.

The way Windows reads it and the way the manufacturers label it are different things.
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HD manufacturers say that to make it easy for people to understand it. The fact it that its all based on 2^x and thats why its 1024...

The loss of HD space from 250 to 233 is due to formating it you need room for the directory (FAT, NTFS, ect) (I might be wrong but I beleave this is why.)

Motoxrdude said:
YEa, i had a thread about something like this...
http://computerforum.com/showthread.php?t=37183
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That just got out of hand but some where in there I think is said it...sorry i didn't see that.
 
They will probly sell like a 100 terabyte one and work there way up from that just so they can make more money off it..... I hope they go straight to 1.2 petabytes and not play games but well see.........
 
Vampiric Rouge said:
The loss of HD space from 250 to 233 is due to formating it you need room for the directory (FAT, NTFS, ect) (I might be wrong but I beleave this is why.)
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The loss of hard drive space is due to the fact that drive manufacturers consider 1KB = 1000bytes, while Windows correctly identifies it as 1024bytes. Doing the math:

250GB @ 1000 bytes/kb = 250 000 000 000
250 000 000 000 bytes @ 1024 bytes/kb = 250 000 000 000/1024/1024/1024 = 232.83GB, which rounds up to 233GB.
 
ceewi1 said:
True, but don't forget, that about 20 years ago, a 10MB hard drive was standard. Now, it's not that uncommon to have 1TB (100,000 times the size). 20 years ago, people would have laughed if you said you could use that much space, and yet some people do. 1PB is only 1000 times the current storage capacity, so in that sense, in another 20 years, it may not seem so enormous. Now granted it's portable storage, and it's always dangerous to predict future trends in this way, but my point is that disk capacities do expand rapidly over the years. Comparing a 1.44MB floppy to a 4.7GB DVD or 30GB Blu-ray disc, also gives an idea of how capacity can expand.
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true that. and dont forget, the quality of files now is relative to the time. for example, typically an mp3 file is about 3-5 MBs. that could very well change, and it may increase in size, or it may decrease (due to advancements in compressing) also, game files are getting bigger and more complex. now, im not saying thats the answer to "what would you ever need that much space for?", its merely an idea. i tend to think some hardcore techies just got way too involved...but anyway, all i wish they would work on is a more 'reliable' hard drive, rather than just bigger and faster ones, IMO. :D
 
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