24TB disks

IceWind · 28 Nov 2010 at 19:01

I want one now lol

milkinc13 · 28 Nov 2010 at 21:04

Boozebeard said:
I think people are failing to realise a 24TB drive would mainly be useful to the professional and commercial markets for servers etc.

said that about drives larger than 10GB at one point.

Soon we'll need that capacity who knows what's around the corner.

Mattyjw · 28 Nov 2010 at 21:18

milkinc13 said:
said that about drives larger than 10GB at one point.

Soon we'll need that capacity who knows what's around the corner.

Apart from the fact we don't actually need the capacity, we "need" the capacity. The information most people truly need can probably fit on a cd.

Prosumer's need this kind of drive for HD editing but even gamers only need such capacious drives if they never uninstall anything they've ever bought. This kind of drive also demands a much more efficient file system because defragmenting it is going to take a month.

Mr-White · 28 Nov 2010 at 21:19

Drives wont stop growing

MW

SinaiSound · 28 Nov 2010 at 23:00

Think how long a 24TB drive would take to do a full format.................................. :eek:

Cleeecooo · 28 Nov 2010 at 23:02

Thats just ridiculous. Id love to see that in a 2.5" bay in a laptop. Or even better. Im a macbook air

clocka · 28 Nov 2010 at 23:09

i reckon we might have 24TB holograph discs before magnetic hard disks, what do you guys think?

Hagar · 28 Nov 2010 at 23:53

I think windows10 might just fit on one.

andy

RimBlock · 29 Nov 2010 at 07:49

Hefner said:
Think how long a 24TB drive would take to do a full format..................................

Yep or copy all of your data to it and imagine the mess if the copy goes pear shaped half way through and you have to work out what has been copies and what hasn't

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RB