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1.6TB In a Shoebox, If You've Got the Money

Posted by timothy on from the incrementalism dept.

zmcnulty writes "While not exactly a technological marvel in itself, IO Data Device's new 'HDZ-UE1.6TS' exemplifies the recent trend towards demand for higher storage capacities -- it's an external hard drive setup offering a total capacity of 1.6TB. Not much larger than four 3.5" hard drives, the HDZ-UE1.6TS goes to show that any (rich) consumer can now easily have a boatload of storage space. Here's the Japanese press release." (At current conversion rates, this would cost nearly $2,900.)

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  1. Obligatory pr0n comment by syntap · · Score: 5, Funny

    But seriously... with this and an optical data line, running your own household Usenet server starts to become practical.

  2. internets by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    how many internets can this hold?

    1. Re:internets by Lord_Slepnir · · Score: 2, Funny

      Dude. Use a real unit. Like Library of Congresses. I wont' be satisifed until I can get a data-density rate of at least 5.6 Library of Congresses per Hogshead!

  3. Hmm by pHatidic · · Score: 2, Funny

    But then where do I put my shoes?

  4. Wow by squoozer · · Score: 1, Funny

    And I thought 640Kb was enough!

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  5. Boatload? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Not much larger than four 3.5" hard drives, the HDZ-UE1.6TS goes to show that any (rich) consumer can now easily have a boatload of storage space.

    Stupid metric system... what's the conversion rate from boatloads to Libraries of Congress?

  6. 1.6TB In a Shoebox, If You've Got the Money by Jumbo+Jimbo · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'd rather have the $2,900 in a shoebox, thanks

  7. You young wimpy whippersnappers! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    $2900 for 1.6 TB!?! And you're complaining!?! Bah!

    I remember paying $2000 for a 100 MB SCSI disk when they first came out. And this was before that new-fangled internet thingy came out; so we didn't have on-line porn to fill up our disks with! No, siree. Back then, we had to fill up our hard disks with actual source code!

    Oh, where or where have all the real hackers gone, these days?

  8. Who needs it? I'll get one from China by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Here's the Japanese press release." (At current conversion rates, this would cost nearly $2,900.)

    Hahah who needs a hard drive? I don't have hard drives. i just keep 30 chinese teenagers in my basement and force them to memorize numbers. It's a lot cheaper.

  9. Re:If it's 1.6TB... by oexeo · · Score: 2, Funny

    > Then why does it clearly say 1.2TB on the front of the case?

    You missed the sub-text: "0.4TB of complimentary porn included"

  10. Which is how much space? by Freexe · · Score: 5, Funny

    Can someone convert it to Libraries of Congress, I cant work in Terabytes.

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    1. Re:Which is how much space? by thisissilly · · Score: 3, Funny
      3900 hours of divx porn.

      That's only 13hrs/day, 6 days a week, for 1 year (with two weeks' vacation, of course). Well within the capabilities of your average 15 year old male.

    2. Re:Which is how much space? by madprof · · Score: 2, Funny

      In a year or two we'll see double the capacity of drives so even frenetic rabbit-like young men can find themselves sated.
      I am not sure that they will be able to download that much data or afford those many DVDs to fill it all though....perhaps they should bundle a cable modem/ADSL upgrade with it? ;)

  11. Re:If it's 1.6TB... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I think you mean "Teddybytes."

    One Teddybyte is 1,024 Moobybytes or 1,048,576 Kibblebytes.

    In the opposite direction, 1,024 Teddybytes comprise one Paedobyte.

  12. At last some competition... by CPM+User · · Score: 4, Funny

    for /dev/null ...

  13. Re:Sheesh.... by zenmojodaddy · · Score: 3, Funny

    Is it just me, or is there a tendency to say that hardware supports Windows, but is supported by Linux/Unix? As if the only thing that keeps Windows stumbling onwards is a big pile of hard drives and sound cards propping up its carcass...

  14. Not mine by supergiovane · · Score: 4, Funny
    Unfortunately, my Internet broke yesterday. I backed it up last week by dragging it from the desktop to the CDR, but I don't know how to copy it back to my PC. I see it on the CD, but if I click the 'e' it doesn't do anything.

    Can anyone send me a working Internet by e-mail, please?

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  15. Re:If it's 1.6TB... by meatspray · · Score: 2, Funny

    Those were canadian TB's.....

    umm yeah...

  16. Re:Recent trend? by vrt3 · · Score: 3, Funny

    In Korea, only old people are recent.

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  17. Re:Recent trend? by capnjack41 · · Score: 3, Funny
    +3 Funny, WTF!?

    Haven't you heard? "Old Korean people" is the new "In Soviet Russia"! It's all the rage.