Comments on: Hitachi first to market with 1TB Deskstar http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20070530/hitachi-first-to-market-with-1tb-deskstar/ Playing with cool gadgets in the ongoing search for the Coolest Gadget Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:35:51 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Mike http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20070530/hitachi-first-to-market-with-1tb-deskstar/comment-page-1/#comment-306115 Mike Sat, 02 Jun 2007 11:23:46 +0000 http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20070530/hitachi-first-to-market-with-1tb-deskstar/#comment-306115 Who? Me? Nah, I'm only 7 (in dog years, that is) ;) Who? Me? Nah, I’m only 7 (in dog years, that is) ;)

]]> By: Marc http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20070530/hitachi-first-to-market-with-1tb-deskstar/comment-page-1/#comment-306063 Marc Fri, 01 Jun 2007 15:48:14 +0000 http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20070530/hitachi-first-to-market-with-1tb-deskstar/#comment-306063 Mike, you're showing your age ;-) I was going for a comparison that might have some meaning to people! I know what you mean though - my very first hard drive was 40MB and sounded like a cement mixer when it was running. It didn't autopark so you had to issue a dismount command before you turned the machine off otherwise it would slam the heads down onto the platters. Ain't technology wonderful...? Mike, you’re showing your age ;-) I was going for a comparison that might have some meaning to people!

I know what you mean though – my very first hard drive was 40MB and sounded like a cement mixer when it was running. It didn’t autopark so you had to issue a dismount command before you turned the machine off otherwise it would slam the heads down onto the platters.

Ain’t technology wonderful…?

]]> By: Mike http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20070530/hitachi-first-to-market-with-1tb-deskstar/comment-page-1/#comment-305956 Mike Thu, 31 May 2007 00:13:58 +0000 http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20070530/hitachi-first-to-market-with-1tb-deskstar/#comment-305956 "Anyone remember paying big bucks for a *20MB* hard drive and thinking it was big?" (note correction above.) Yeap, I was on the top of the world when someone gave me a 30MB (no, that's not a typo, that's MEGAByte) disk that had a bad head (6 total.) had to partition it into 5 partitions to get the cluster size as small as possible (since the cluster went "head 1, head 2, head 3, etc." before looping back to head one and forward to the next sector so a bad sector would kill the whole cluster) and wound up with a total of about 24MB usable on the drive. It doubled the storage space I had on the computer (I only had a 10MB drive before that) that I was running a BBS on (anyone remember those?) Just picture a drive that's about the size of 2 CD drives stacked together and weighing about 3 times as much and only holding 5-30MB. “Anyone remember paying big bucks for a *20MB* hard drive and thinking it was big?” (note correction above.)

Yeap, I was on the top of the world when someone gave me a 30MB (no, that’s not a typo, that’s MEGAByte) disk that had a bad head (6 total.) had to partition it into 5 partitions to get the cluster size as small as possible (since the cluster went “head 1, head 2, head 3, etc.” before looping back to head one and forward to the next sector so a bad sector would kill the whole cluster) and wound up with a total of about 24MB usable on the drive. It doubled the storage space I had on the computer (I only had a 10MB drive before that) that I was running a BBS on (anyone remember those?)

Just picture a drive that’s about the size of 2 CD drives stacked together and weighing about 3 times as much and only holding 5-30MB.

]]> By: DomPaul http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20070530/hitachi-first-to-market-with-1tb-deskstar/comment-page-1/#comment-305946 DomPaul Wed, 30 May 2007 20:52:20 +0000 http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20070530/hitachi-first-to-market-with-1tb-deskstar/#comment-305946 4TB Raid would be handy as a media storage drive. On my HTPC I've started ripping my DVDs to the HD so as to have a "DVD Changer" if you will built into the PC. I've got one 500GB drive full already. You figure most DVDs these days are about 7GB and all of a sudden a 1TB drive isn't so big. Then you figure in 5 years Blueray will be the standard and now 4TB isn't enough :-) 4TB Raid would be handy as a media storage drive. On my HTPC I’ve started ripping my DVDs to the HD so as to have a “DVD Changer” if you will built into the PC. I’ve got one 500GB drive full already. You figure most DVDs these days are about 7GB and all of a sudden a 1TB drive isn’t so big. Then you figure in 5 years Blueray will be the standard and now 4TB isn’t enough :-)

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