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Seagate Announces First 1.5TB Desktop Hard Drive
MojoKid writes "Seagate announced three new consumer-level hard drives today, which it claims are the 'industry's first 1.5-terabyte desktop and half-terabyte notebook hard drives.' The company claims that it is able to greatly increase the areal density of its drive substrates by utilizing perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology that is capable of delivering more than triple the storage density of traditional longitudinal recording. Seagate's latest desktop-class hard drive, the Barracuda 7200.11, will be available in a 1.5TB capacity starting in August. The 3.5-inch drive is made up of four 375GB platters and has a 7,200-rpm rotational speed."
Hard drives are getting bigger? Wow.. what news.. that hardly ever happens.
How about a drive that advertises longevity instead of storage density. Seriously, I'd take half that storage if there was more assurance of my data integrity.
Losing an 80 GB HD nearly broke my heart, I can't imagine what losing 1.5 TB would do...
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Me. I already have 2TB across 4 drives here.
Well, they ARE cramming another platter into the drive, surely they mean platter density inside the drive case.....
Sure. I got a 1 gig drive in 1995 that I thought would be all the digital storage I would ever need. Funny how that didn't work out the way I intended. Digital storage needs have been expanding rapidly for a long time. I don't see a slowdown anytime soon.
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So, yeah, people will need that much space.
Consider HD video, photos at ridiculous resolution and tons of music.
How big is an HD movie? How big is a library of your favorite 300 movies? That's no at all an unreasonable thing to want in a small, quiet computer that sits next to your TV, and is a couple of doublings past 1.5 TB. And that's not even counting the porn!
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I always thought this was true as well, but in practice it is not. If I'm out taking photos of landscapes or whatnot, then yes, I get rid of all of the photos except the really good ones. When it comes to photos taken at parties and such, I find I usually hang on to most of them. Not because they are necessarily all that good, but because they capture a moment or an action (or blackmail content...) that I don't want to lose in spite of the imperfections. I find I really only delete the ones that are completely out of focus, blurred, or otherwise trashed beyond use.
I don't take a whole lot of photos, but I do have probably 90-100 gigs of photos from the last two or three years.
This is a persistent worry for me. I recently started considering again what I was backing up, and realized that a full backup of just the data that is either impossible or very difficult to replace takes up about seven DVDs. Then there's the stuff that's just really, really annoying to replace, and that's more than half a terabyte.
And then when I settle on a solution (recently including Taiyo-Yuden DVD+R media stored in a fireproof lockbox), I wonder about whether it will survive an EMP blast. I worried that I obsessed over too-trivial things, and then I read this xkcd, and realized that yes, I do obsess over too-trivial things, but I am not alone.
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You're off by an order of magnitude. The formula is:
Which simplified to:
Reduced further:
Then rounded up a smidgen:
Someone else posted this in scientific notation as (capacity * 10^12 / 2^40). Which agrees with my computations.
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Anime compresses EXTREMELY well due to cell shading, so a regular movie is gonna be about 1gb/hour for regular dvds.
Anime looks like shit when it compresses due to what you call cell shading, and what the rest of the world calls cel painting (aside from computer-generated animation, where it is called "cel shading") unless you use an encoder specifically designed for the purpose. I do believe that both DivX and XviD have options for this however, as do other encoders.
I have consumed plenty of MPEG4-encoded fansubbed anime, though, and lots of it was high-bitrate and still looked like dookie.
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As the amount of data stored grows and gets cheaper per GB, the amount of marginal data increases to fill it. It's a form of long-tail economics - you keep more and more data worth less and less as the price of storage drops.
When a large drive was 80 MB, I didn't keep music in my computer, and I kept a few low-rez, carefully trimmed/cropped/scaled down personal pics in the computer. When a large drive was 800 MB, I kept a few of my favorite songs as MP3s, and dozens of pictures. When a large drive was 8 GB, I had a modest collection of music and a few hundred pics, at 80 GB, I had all my CDs saved as MP3s along with thousands of pics, at 800 GB (now) I have thousands of MP3s, pics from every source I can imagine, as well as many videos from my digital camera.
As the value of each bit goes down, the total value of the machine goes up, even as the value of each bit goes down. What's funny (for me) is that the same P3 that started with 8 GB now has almost a TB of space, and still serves all my files. Storage/bandwidth has value, processing power is not so much.
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Only 100 years ago we had wax cylinders and player-piano analog rolls. Today the ability to read those resources is very limited - where bills printed in ink on Vellum (sheepskin) & Papyrus or engraved into stone - are viewable (even if the languages are arcane) without technology.
It is a real problem - magnetic domains will fail and even if the Al substrate in an optical disk remains intact - nothing says that the plastic around the data-carrying substrate will remain optically stable...
ALA is correct - data must have a storage upgrade pathway and continuity evaluation as an ongoing part of the archive process.