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Hitachi Announces 400GB Hard Drive
jkcity writes "Hitachi Global Storage Technologies has announced their new 400GB 3.5-inch ATA hard drive, which they claim makes them the new capacity king. Specs on the drive are also available."
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that's a big deathstar
Here's the secret scoop on how they did it.
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Finally enough place for my linux every-distribution iso collection...
Spelling mistakes: My is english spoken not tongue of mother.
Yes, yes, it's 400GB... but how big is it in units that *I* can understand, pachyderms and volkswagons?
this is the first media where i can store my full archive of low quality pr0n! i am happy now.
Excellent...(insert wiggling of fingers here)... now when the feds come knocking on my door, I only have to demagnitise one drive instead of 2... Time well spent...
I do imagine that this is more for the server market or for, as they put it, applications where tape back up would be used... I can't think of any reason to have that much information in one place, until the next version of windows comes out and youneed two of these things.
Sounds like you're just the person for this new Acer laptop...
"What guys are you doing with so huge hard drivers?"
Plan on running Longhorn.
I can't but smile at the irony of modding the above "redundant", I could explkain why but I guess the beauty of it resides in its subtility :)
Trolling using another account since 2005.
.. why the rumours are MS aren't going to put an HD in X-Box 2 - we now have an HD that can hold the entire X-Box 1 game catalogue.
"The Deskstar 7K400 provides enough capacity to store the following:
....
400 hours of standard TV programming
45 hours of HDTV programming
More than 6,500 hours of high quality digital music"
"or, after you install Windows and Office XP...:
13 minutes of standard TV programming
4 minutes of HDTV programming
More than 6,500 seconds of high quality digital music"
Well, if you buy one of these, dont forget to double the space and increase the speed!
Why don't you share instead? If you copy all your porn to a friend, then you are able to copy it back if your HD crashes.
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from what I heard hitachi/ibm fixed there death stars by getting rid of the glass platters
They moved over to bubblegum.
Take the cheese to sickbay, the doctor should see it as soon as possible - B'Elanna Torres, "Learning Curve"
I probably shouldn't reply again to the same post, but how can you talk about the cost of something for comparison and leave out a main component? "This is cheaper if you don't include taxes and shipping and other hidden costs." That's just ridiculous.
Reminds me of my mom asking me to drive her to a store an hour away so she can save 39 cents on some groceries. Yeah, it's cheaper if you don't include the costs for gas and my time!
sorry about the rant, but mothers can be so stubborn...
PS: no I don't live in the basement. I live on a college campus. I do return to live my parents this summer though. And I'm unemployed. And I don't have a girlfriend. Oh damn, I'm a typical Slashdotter :(
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..after the spectacular failure of the smaller IBM Deathstar, the new 400GB Hitachi Imperial Deathstar will be protected against failure by a forcefield projected around it from the nearby motherboard that it orbits.
270Meg? Farkin Newbie!
My God, it's full of pr0n.
Queens of the Stone Age - they rule
I find it gets repetitive after a few hours - why store a whole month of it? I mean, you can only see a commercial for "The Tongue" so many times before you want to rip out your actual tongue...
Freedom: "I won't!"
when I'm not using it
Eh? Weirdo.
... Bill Gates's prediction from waaaay back in 1981. Wow, he really is a visionary. Erm ... wait ... what's the difference between kb and gb again? It's not much, is it?