Comments on: Hitachi plans 4 TB drives in 2009

By: Beast

Beast — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 01:02:29 +0000

Ouch, gonna suck when that bad boy quits with 4TB of un-backed up data, hahaha

By: djarum

djarum — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 22:30:36 +0000

In related news Microsoft announced that system requirements for vista sp2 will require 3.7 Tb to run….And are looking to acquire Hitachi Ltd…Just a joke…

Imagine 5 4tb drives in a raid array….now, that’s hot.
Beats the hell out of my 5 by 500 sata array…as long as the access time is decent. Get 2 4tb and mirror them, your pron is safe…The cost will be prohibitive for the average user for the first 2 years anyway. These drive will turn up in fortune 500 fileservers long before we can afford them for personal use.

By: happy!

happy! — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 07:50:17 +0000

more hard drive space woo hoo
one day ill get me one of them
biiiiig game collection (bought and torrent)
id love to install them all so i could just play whatever i liked without the pain of finding disk space and install and all that fun stuff

off topic….just i thought
porn…hmmmm where to begin
dont get me wrong i like girls and sex ALOT! ok
but porn is dirty IMO and it demeans both men and women to the point that they become like unthinking animals in regards to sex
i will say that maybe in a marriage a porno or two aint so bad for two people to share to “spice up” their sex life so to speak
but honestly
if there wasnt so much porn in society there wouldnt be so many sex crimes ….well thats what i reckon
think of your sisters and mothers and aunts
would you like to see them in porn? no? well im sure their families feel the same dont you think?
so anyway this is just the way i feel and im sure many of you will dissaggree and some of you will write smart ass comments in return but IMO it needs to be said

peace

By: phreakU

phreakU — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 06:58:24 +0000

People actually keep the stuff they’ve downloaded after they’ve watched it? I always delete my stuff bc I know I’ll never watch it again.

By: Slashdot story

Slashdot story — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 02:51:04 +0000

“with first products available in 2011″

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/15/0216253

yay for stealing others content

[16:57] [Slashdot] Hitachi Promises 4-TB Hard Drives By 2011
[21:17] [rlslog] Hitachi plans 4 TB drives in 2009

real timestamps. lol.

By: Psykorps

Psykorps — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 02:27:04 +0000

ummm…i dont think that this “monstrosity” of hard drive space will be out on 2009…i say 2TB verison in Mid 2008 and most possible 4 TB at late 2008 – jan-feb 2009…

i always listen to mixed opinions about the hitachi HDDs…some say that these are good, and some say that these suck…i say, if u didnt take any of your HDDs out of the case..then they will be fine…and about HDD failures, its a commercial thing, so you can buy more and more HDDs…painful as it is, but its the wheel of industry and the poor consumers…its a pain really to loose 4TB worth of data…(at least 30% of them are pr0n lol )

remember: GEEKS HAVE BIG DISKS! LOL XD

By: spago

spago — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 01:28:31 +0000

I disagree Mr. X. Hitachi are notorious for wiping their hands of warranty claims (at least in Asia Pacific). You get bounced to a remote call centre and then they refuse to honour warranty…I direct all clients to other brands now as a result of the poor treatment I got from them (about 15 months ago)

By: Mr. X

Mr. X — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 01:09:16 +0000

hitachi is a real good brand. they have the best drive diagnostic software. recommended .

By: Pop006

Pop006 — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 01:02:52 +0000

4000 gb =
5714 dvdrips (@700mb each)
500 tv season (@8gigs each)
930 retail dvds (@4.3gigs each)

VERY possible to fill up. i fill my 300 gig hard drive ever month or two…

By: jdizzle1337

jdizzle1337 — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 00:45:24 +0000

SWEET now i can lose 4TB of data all at once ! FUN ! YAY how about they come out with a 500GB 10,000RPM HD that is guaranteed to last for 5 years before they start working on this 4TB garbage.

By: Emm

Emm — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 23:31:20 +0000

typo… 3.6

By: Emm

Emm — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 23:30:43 +0000

So… they should advertise that they sell 3.7TB instead of 4TB?… what if the competition doesn’t do that?

By: klue

klue — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 22:48:43 +0000

In the hard drive industry 1TB=1000GB not 1024GB. So when you buy a 4TB you are in fact getting 3725GB of storage. At least that is if I calculated right.
4TB=4000GB=4000 000MB=4000 000 000KB=4000 000 000 000B

4000 000 000 000B / 1024= 3 906 250 000KB
3 906 250 000KB / 1024= 3 814 697MB
3 814 697MB / 1024= 3 725GB
3 725GB / 1024= 3,6TB

So you are really buying only 3,6TB not 4TB. I think this system is outdated and complicated. They should switch. You’re welcome to correct me if I’m wrong.

By: Porn Lord

Porn Lord — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:50:37 +0000

@61

Better question : How many kleenex can you use with 4TB of porn ?

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:48:42 +0000

Wow thats a lot of porn and/or mp3s.