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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. Wait... by JoeLinux · · Score: 0, Troll

    Look at the OS requirements. It doesn't support Linux. Oh well.

    [ducks]

    Joe

  2. Re:No, only 0.9094 TB by entrager · · Score: 0, Troll

    Well, considering that a hard drive is basically a permanent, slow form of memory, I would expect it to measure bytes correctly.

    I think you are confusing the issue a bit. Gigabit ethernet is described correctly, gigaBIT. Same thing with GHz; Hz can be desribed in base 10, there is no reason to treat them any other way. However, hard drives are measured in BYTES. A BYTE is always 2^3 BITS. This means that anything claiming to be 1 teraBYTE damn well better use base 2 if you ask me.

  3. Re:Sorry.. by mabinogi · · Score: 1, Troll

    No, he's not.
    He's saying buy two, and mirror them.

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