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Terabyte Drive to Debut Later this Year

mytrip writes to mention the news that Hitachi will be releasing a terabyte storage drive this year. "These large drives also will get incorporated into televisions and personal video recorders. Hitachi, among others, already sells TVs with integrated hard drives in Japan and other markets. While large drives start out expensive, the price drops relatively quickly. Computer makers pay something in the 30-cent range for a gigabyte when buying hard drives, Healy said. The price at retail is around 50 cents or less."

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  1. Re:Gezzz. by GigsVT · · Score: 2, Funny

    SCSI is basically dead. It's just a scam to get more money out of people that are stuck in 1992. Just ignore it and go with modern technology like SATA.

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  2. Re:Terabyte? by jo42 · · Score: 2, Funny

    This is in marketing Terabytes, so 999.99 gigabytes.

  3. Re:Terabyte? by Clover_Kicker · · Score: 3, Funny

    > does that extra 24gb of ladies' naked bodies
    > really make a difference anyway?

    Yes. Yes it does.

  4. Re:Discs should catch up by Kyoushu · · Score: 1, Funny

    I not only do I remember them, I believed them. How foolish I was. I mean come on, 500GB hard drives, are we really going to see them in our lifetimes? Next they'll be putting up stories about how processors are going to get faster in the future.

  5. One thing article left out... by darthservo · · Score: 3, Funny

    With hard drives getting this much capacity, which term would most accurately describe them - a truck or a series of pipes?

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    1. Re:One thing article left out... by crhylove · · Score: 3, Funny

      It's a series of tubes, dummy. Pipes is a totally wrong metaphor.

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