3TB soon to be 4TB

[leemason]

You can now get 3TB Hitachi SATA disk drives for about £100.00+VAT: http://www.aria.co.uk/SuperSpecials...II+6Gbps+HDD+HDS723030ALA640+?productId=42910.

They will also soon be releasing their 4TB drives...

I guess the data will just grow and grow to use the space!

I remember the first IBM PC XT (a Zenith clone) that I had with a hard disk. It was 20MB.

 

[KM-Tiger]

It was 20MB.

Snap!

It was a Dell 286.

 

[matth]

I saw this today as well, thought it was an awesome amount of storage for the price

 

[cloudware]

I have in front of me a Seagate ST412 drive... Thats a whopping 10MB MFM storage on 5.25" full height drive at 3600rpm and an ST506 interface, I think it can even reach the ultra high speed of around 500KB/second with average seek of about 85ms

State of the art at the time and it probably still works too!

Keith

 

[calibra]

I saw that too. 3Tb is loads, considering a VMFS LUN (without extents) can only be 2Tb - 512B.

 

[british steve]

I was once the proud owner of an Amstrad 1512. The 512 refers to the amount of memory it had.

 

[fisicx]

I can remember upgrading my BBC micro to 128Kb of RAM!

Didn't even have a mouse back then, it was all keyboard commands.

Is this 4TB or is it 4TiB (for the geeks among you)?

 

[stugster]

 

[Paul Kelly ICHYB]

British Steve,

and that was Kb, not even Mb, Gb or Tb - you wouldnt get more than a few pages of a word document on that, nowerdays!

 

[leemason]

I can remember upgrading my BBC micro to 128Kb of RAM!

Didn't even have a mouse back then, it was all keyboard commands.

Is this 4TB or is it 4TiB (for the geeks among you)?

BBC model B???

My first home computer was a Tandy TRS-80 with 16KB of RAM and 16KB of ROM. I eventually bought some floppy disk drives for it. Double sided double density. I think they were 360KB of storage - massive and so reliable compared to tape...