Technically, if you're an A+ technician or about to become an A+ technician, 1024 gigabytes is 1 terrabyte. 1024 KB is 1 MB, and so on.

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Cool. 1TB of hard disk space? I really don't now what to do with it, if I buy one... Here we are still quite happy with 120GB- 160GB hard disks....(We get them here at 100$).
Anyway I feel that paying $500 for 1TB of hard disk is worth it. It was a cool deal.

As par as what a TB means, I think is is 1024GB and I don't think any HDD manufacturer is deviating away from it. Simply because we still use binary system and whille addressing memory, we'd still be using binary numbers. Whay all the hasle of changing to decimal? (It brings more complexity to the hardware addressing and unnecessarily addresses get wasted.)

For example, 2^10=1024. Assume that we have 10bits allocated for addressing. I can adentify 1024 different, unique address locations using this Addressing configuration. If I say I'll only have 1000 memory locations, unnecessarily I'm wasting 24 addressing possibilities! (The same will replicate itself. Like 1024 bytes is 1KB- technically. If you make that 1000, then right from these minute locations you're wasting addressing ability all the way till 1TB. )

webintern, if you've come across any HDD manufacturer who has shifted from convention 2^xx addressing, let me nknow of the link. I'll be etremely surprised if anyone has shifted. (That's not a wise move

As far as my knowledge goes, I must confess seec77 os right in saying 1TB=1024GB since we are talking about HDDs here.

External drive here for 1 tera solid is around $350 each..
the case dont look nice since it is a little bulky.. it have 3 chasis fans and operate on 110 power

guess what.. we manufacture them for japan market.. when we buy them back they cost around $550
a $200 increase.. still we can have this locally at $350

we have an available model here for around $450-$580 or sumthin with a nicer box chasis and 240 volt power and a standby of 10mins power

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having two 500gb harddrives external cost much here.. it is $280 a piece.. but the chasis is sleeker and slimmer.. if we add it up.. your stock is much cheaper..

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both can be attached in a raid fashion or as external USB drives..

1 terabyte!!!! WOW! what are trying to put in there buddy!

I previously had a 40 GB Hard drive and recently added another 80 GB. And I cannot seem to fill it up. It covers all my needs

1 terabyte!! WOW

If you do a lot of rendering works, you will need a very big storage.
It will be increased when you connect a camera (such as CCTV in banks) to your computer and record everything. 1TB will be insufficient.

For me 300GB (that's what I have) is too much, until now I only use 30% of it