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500 Gigabyte Hard Drive Coming Out

Hitachi is set to release a 500 gigabyte hard drive which is bigger that the 400 gigabyte hard drive it previously released. The 500 gig drive is aimed at those who store video and could store 200 hours worth which is up to 100 films.

An 80 gigabyte Tivo-style video recorder can only store about 40 hours of video. Hitachi is the second largest manufacturer of hard drives and the new 50 gig ones will come out in the first quarter. The company also plans to upgrade smaller disks.

Hitachi is working on a smaller microdrive which can store eight to 10 billion bytes of data and takes a fifth less space than the one inch microdrive Hitachi currently has on the market. Microdrives are good for video cameras, digital cameras, etc.

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	Gonna be a pain in the backside to back up n/t
	..


by:	ixuzus	01/06/2005 04:57 AM

	Get 2 and have a TeraByte
	Backup will be a pain but a Defrag will take for ever.


by:	ericcode	01/06/2005 05:04 AM

	c'mon....
	"...a 500 gigabyte hard drive which is bigger that the 400 gigabyte hard drive..." ...duh. Maybe I'll hafta get one for my xbox


by:	erasedgod	01/06/2005 05:47 AM

	Get 2 and have a TeraByte
	Backup will be a pain but a Defrag will take for ever.


by:	ericcode	01/06/2005 06:02 AM

	Some much room nothing to store
	NT


by:	thedrewman	01/06/2005 03:34 PM

	500Gb
	of porn.... it'd only take me a month to fill it up ;)


by:	sjava	01/06/2005 04:30 PM

	Lacie already has one out n/t
	n/t


by:	groovedaddy	01/06/2005 07:28 PM

	wow
	"Hitachi is set to release a 500 gigabyte hard drive which is bigger that the 400 gigabyte hard drive it previously released." Really who would have guessed?


by:	si182uk	01/06/2005 10:03 PM

	Does that mean programmers can be more wasteful?
	cool that means lazy programmers can make software even bigger and waste even more system resources. Now I can install every single add-on for the Sims on 1 computer (only problem is I'd need quite a lot of memory, processor and graphics card speed to run it!)


by:	darrenforster99	01/08/2005 10:47 AM

	darrenforster99 you make a good point
	Programmers need to be taught to keep it tight just like the old days. I'm so sick of bloatware. Remember how programmers used 2 digits rather than 4 to show the year in order to preserve memory? Ok, that one caused some minor dramas leading up to 2000 but I very much admire the general principle.


by:	ixuzus	01/09/2005 12:01 AM

	darrenforster99 you are an idiot
	The problem you are complaining about has little to do with efficient code and a lot to do with loading textures etc. Thats why cutting edge games often span more than 2 cd's. If you cut out the textures, levels, scripting, sound files, models, etc. You would most likely have an application that comes in at under 20mb. And if you think that you need a lot of system resources to run Sims 1 then I dare you to try the demo at http://www.doom3.com/ Sounds you need to upgrade.


by:	t_strimp	01/11/2005 05:45 PM

	buzz
	wrong answer.. today's programmers are definitely more lax on writing tight code than programmers in the 80's and before.. look at the exponential increase in size of applications as a perfect example.. MS Office, as has every other app, has bloated in the last decade.. this is a direct result of cheaper, larger hard drives being available.. programmers no longer have to write code to fit on a 20Mb hard drive, they can be as sloppy as they want to be..


by:	sjava	01/11/2005 05:56 PM

	Well
	There have been certain people who mess with their hard drives and get like a terrabyte of space.


by:	fballer23	01/11/2005 06:29 PM

	@sjava
	"wrong answer.. today's programmers are definitely more lax on writing tight code than programmers in the 80's and before.. look at the exponential increase in size of applications as a perfect example.. MS Office, as has every other app, has bloated in the last decade.. this is a direct result of cheaper, larger hard drives being available.. programmers no longer have to write code to fit on a 20Mb hard drive, they can be as sloppy as they want to be.." Maybe you should look at the functionality of office applications today compared to 20 years ago. Do you honestly think they are compareable? Alot of whats installed with office today isn't even used by 90% of the people who use the software. And like I've said before alot of the bloat comes from extras that come with the program not the application itself. For office you have all of the language files, samples, templates, conversion filters, help files etc. Programmers today also have access to higher level programming languages which add some overhead. As does designing a program to be scaleable and reuseable. Could they make applications smaller? I'm sure but would it really be worth the extra time/money to do? Is it worth it to create a piece of software that is a few MB smaller and much less flexible? I'd say not.


by:	t_strimp	01/12/2005 05:00 PM

	Also
	I'm not really trying to say that programmers are lazy. The best/most efficient of them are.


by:	t_strimp	01/12/2005 05:10 PM

	The best way
	To do it would be to set up raid 5. With 3 hard drives you'd get 1TB of space with backup. Or if you are afraid of more than 1 drive failing at one you can always go Raid 6 :)


by:	t_strimp	01/12/2005 05:52 PM

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