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A Terabyte In A Cigar Box

Posted by timothy on from the drool-drool-droll dept.

Anonymous Howard writes "LaCie has introduced a 1 Terabyte (capacity) disk for (get this) only $1,199.00!(USD) It is external and equipped with FireWire 800, FireWire 400, iLink/DV, Hi-Speed USB 2.0 or USB 1.1 to connect to both PC and Mac. Take a look here."

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  1. Re:Missing bytes growing fast by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Technically:
    1000000000000 Bytes are:
    976562500 KiB
    953674 MiB
    931 GiB .909 TiB

  2. Re:No, only 0.9094 TB by sciwhiz007 · · Score: 5, Informative

    I know, I know, I'm nitpicking.

    1 TB (terabyte) = 10^12 bytes, NOT 2^40 bytes. 2^40 bytes is represented by a value known as a Tebibyte.

    Don't believe me? Check out http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html or google's cache at http://www.google.ca/search?q=cache:lbDn9HCN0SAJ:p hysics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html+gibibyte+sit e:gov&hl=en&start=1&ie=UTF-8

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  3. Nice box by majid · · Score: 5, Informative

    I had the opportunity to see one at MacWorld. They are very hefty and made of ultra-heavy gauge aluminum (feels more solid than the G5 case). Also very heavy.

    The aluminum case is not enough to dissipate the heat generated by the 4 drives, so they also have a fan, but it is a very quiet one (as much as one can jusdge such a thing in a trade show).

    The case is also available in a 2 drive 1/2 terabyte version for around $600.