hard drive size

psalliss · 10 Mar 2008 at 20:46

probably a stupiud question but whats that the largest a sata hard drive could get. 1tb seems to the biggest at present.

sid · 10 Mar 2008 at 21:29

psalliss said:
probably a stupiud question but whats that the largest a sata hard drive could get. 1tb seems to the biggest at present.

I'm sure that is the max size

Chris C · 10 Mar 2008 at 22:32

havent seen bigger than 1TB for sale yet. Doesnt mean they havent tested some though, but why would you want a single drive that size !?!

psalliss · 10 Mar 2008 at 22:35

for storage have got htpc in the lounge with a 1tb drive in at present and will be putting all my dvds onto for a central storage point.

crazyDAJT · 10 Mar 2008 at 22:37

large amounts of storage why raid 5 was invented..

Chris C · 10 Mar 2008 at 22:41

1tb though, how many DVDs fit on there ? I must admit I dont own a lot of DVDs, I usually watch them and sell them on or keep 1 or 2 really good films.

psalliss · 18 Mar 2008 at 11:33

ive not filled it yet am just starting to put them all on. it looks like ill get around 250 ish on it. they seem to take about 3gb a film for just the movie with no extras.

lopkinfop · 18 Mar 2008 at 11:53

Have you thought of converting them to Xvid or similar, the quality is very good and at less than 1Gb per film you could fit roughly 1000 films on there

There are plenty of free software tools you can use such as auto GK

semi-pro waster · 18 Mar 2008 at 12:05

Are you asking what is the largest you could buy in a 3.5" drive or what is the largest possible drive using current storage techniques?

As mentioned 1gb is the largest available size of hard drive currently but I doubt that will be the largest single size of drive capable of production. Newer and more advanced techniques will be constantly trialled to try to fit more on platter although there will be a limit reached at some point where it becomes uneconomical to advance with current technology and we will have to move to another method of storage - holographic cubes have been suggested as one possible advance.

lopkinfop · 18 Mar 2008 at 12:14

semi-pro waster said:
holographic cubes have been suggested as one possible advance.

they theorised about 2Tb per cm^3 didn't they?

semi-pro waster · 18 Mar 2008 at 12:43

lopkinfop said:
they theorised about 2Tb per cm^3 didn't they?

I've seen figures between 1Tb per cm^3 all the way up to 10Tb per cm^3 so that would seem quite a reasonable figure there, the technology still needs quite a lot of work done to make it faster and more affordable but it seems to have decent potential at the moment.

badbob · 18 Mar 2008 at 12:46

Have you thought of converting them to Xvid or similar, the quality is very good and at less than 1Gb

Major loss in picture quality, and sound (might have to drop 5.1 for 2 channel MP3) Even 1.4GB movies aren't as good as the original.