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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. A Terabyte In A Cigar Box? by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Surely you mean 5 LoCs in a cigar box?
    that'd be about 500 deciLoCs per cigar I reckon ...

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  2. Re:Man... by Chris+Carollo · · Score: 1, Redundant
    It's got plenty applications, but not normal user applications.

    I bet a lot of normal users will be archving HD video pretty shortly. I'm doing it right now, and at 8.9GB/hr, having terrabytes to work with would be pretty handy.

    Plus, people could now rip their entire CD collection and not need to use any compression at all, and with enough albums, terrabytes could be useful.
  3. Re:Sorry.. by twoshortplanks · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Where did you go to school? You can't add probabilities like that. Would the chance of twenty drives failing be 100%? Thirty drives 150%? Huh?

    Draw yourself out a probability tree and you'll see where you're going wrong.

    In this case the similiest thing to do is work out the probability that none of the drives fail. You gave 95% or 0.95. So, two drives is 0.95 * 0.95. Three drives is 0.95 * 0.95 * 0.95. And so on. So eight drives is 0.95 to the power of 8, which is 0.663, or 66.3%. So the probability of any drive failing is 1-0.663, or 33.7%.

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