| Nov 8, 2009 |
but really though what could do with all the space besides load your computer with everything that you illegally obtain. I could only see a few people who would actually need something like that msn, google, yahoo and every major government that has a computer running their defenses and nukes thats about it. Like my mother tells me about having 600 channels on a tv you can't watch them all at once, same thing can be said about running a computer you can't play all your games at once either.
BUT well..
Even if you cant run all the gamez.. softz etc at once.. At least you can STORE all of them once, can't you? Think about it!:)
As I've said a few times, the point isn't that it is a NECESSITY. We accept that we (assumedly) won't NEED a 1.2PB drive in 5 years, but if its available for a few hundred more then a top end regular HD why wouldn't we get one. Instead of buying a couple normal ones over the period of the life of a computer to upgrade storage, get a single drive that fills your needs for possibly an infinite time. Get a new computer? Just swap in your drive and wipe/reinstall the OS partition and voila, your system has returned to its former glory. Again, not necessity, just another additional niceness of tech.
in the graphics and digital imaging field i can easily see that that could become really useful. ccd technology is getting better all the time. digital cameras could start shooting even bigger and better quality images that would need to be stored. if you can imagine a 50mb or 100mb or even 200mb photograph in the next few years [im pretty sure that we will get close to that] then you are going to be using much larger drives than now. also in the field of video the use of hd cameras for hd tv is going to use much more space. also with better scanner and suchlike archives of images or just drawings could be saved at much higher quality.
i think this storage excess void will be filled [at least partly] by less compression and higher quality images. which i certainly lok forward to. QUOTE(organicbmx @ Mar 24 2006, 04:53 PM)  in the graphics and digital imaging field i can easily see that that could become really useful. ccd technology is getting better all the time. digital cameras could start shooting even bigger and better quality images that would need to be stored. if you can imagine a 50mb or 100mb or even 200mb photograph in the next few years [im pretty sure that we will get close to that] then you are going to be using much larger drives than now. also in the field of video the use of hd cameras for hd tv is going to use much more space. also with better scanner and suchlike archives of images or just drawings could be saved at much higher quality. i think this storage excess void will be filled [at least partly] by less compression and higher quality images. which i certainly lok forward to. You see.... IF Pictures can get soo advanced so as to have such huge file sizes... THINK about what other things might develop into... I mean... couple the pictures with the softwarez etc and i can almost guarnatee you that it wont be long after the release of the PB that we will soon be short of SPACE! 
Since I'm joining so late in the discussion, I first have to say "Good God, that's a lot of space!"
Of course, since the manufacturer already announced that this kind of storage is expected in 4-5 years, I supposed I shouldn't compare it to todays' requirements. I mean, yes, today even a TB Hard-disk may sound gigantic to some, but it really isn't. It's futile to imagine what kind of storage we will need in 2-3 years from now. But still, I suppose that a PetaByte Hard-disk will be directed at the business sector first, since businesses are in real need for this kind of space. It doesn't mean that the public sector won't find it a yummy deal, either. I personally will most certainly get myself one of those bad boys. And about the partitioning, I might as well do what I do now. A partition for each of my operating systems, and another partition having all the space left. I assume of course that in 4-5 years, processors won't have a problem dealing with such a huge partition, especially since the File Allocation System will most likely be updated to suit the new trend. Anyway, if I'm to say only one thing about this new PetaByte Hard-disk, it'll be: "Baby, Come to Papa!" QUOTE(Transcendum @ Mar 24 2006, 10:21 PM) Since I'm joining so late in the discussion, I first have to say "Good God, that's a lot of space!" Of course, since the manufacturer already announced that this kind of storage is expected in 4-5 years, I supposed I shouldn't compare it to todays' requirements. I mean, yes, today even a TB Hard-disk may sound gigantic to some, but it really isn't. It's futile to imagine what kind of storage we will need in 2-3 years from now. But still, I suppose that a PetaByte Hard-disk will be directed at the business sector first, since businesses are in real need for this kind of space. It doesn't mean that the public sector won't find it a yummy deal, either. I personally will most certainly get myself one of those bad boys. And about the partitioning, I might as well do what I do now. A partition for each of my operating systems, and another partition having all the space left. I assume of course that in 4-5 years, processors won't have a problem dealing with such a huge partition, especially since the File Allocation System will most likely be updated to suit the new trend. Anyway, if I'm to say only one thing about this new PetaByte Hard-disk, it'll be: "Baby, Come to Papa!" That's one more guy who really has a positive attitude to the development of these HDD drives! I'm real happy! 
1.2 Petabyte Harddisk
1.2 Petabyte Harddisk Replying to jovencoronel I download (archive) every thing. Music, movies, jpg, software, and web-sites thinks to three t4 connections. Of the 60.0TB I have used about 54.0-TB I do have problems with finding stuff. Need better organization. I have three computers with 21 1.0TB HDDs networked That gives me 60.0TBs of space. Non of them are setup as a RAID (cost me $27,000)
Petabytes of Data? Soon enough...
1.2 Petabyte Harddisk Software that dynamically generates its own data - such as immersive 3D games - will easily generate these amounts of data (assuming you want the data to persist and not fade away as you leave an area). These could include extra data to enhance the experience (3D audio, olfactory/ tastes/ textures, per object) and allow for destructible (and persistent) environments. -reply by Ag Arthan
|
 1.2 Petabyte Harddisk |
Affordable Web Hosting, Low cost Web Hosting - ComputingHost.com
