How big is 1TB?

SexyGreyFox · 7 Jan 2007 at 16:37

1 TB Hard Drive Announced

Seagate has announced plans to manufacture the world's first commercial one terabyte solid state hard drive. It is utilizing new technology to keep the drive from overheating and to keep it cooler than other large capacity drives on the market.

Is it a 1000 gig?

Johnnytoxic · 7 Jan 2007 at 16:38

indeedy

just Scott · 7 Jan 2007 at 16:39

dmpoole said:
1 TB Hard Drive Announced

Seagate has announced plans to manufacture the world's first commercial one terabyte solid state hard drive. It is utilizing new technology to keep the drive from overheating and to keep it cooler than other large capacity drives on the market.

Is it a 1000 gig?

It's 1024 Gigabytes.

mattbrown91 · 7 Jan 2007 at 16:39

1024Gb

paradigm · 7 Jan 2007 at 16:40

It "should" be 1099511627776 bytes, but you can guarentee as per with all HDD manufacturers it will be 1000000000000 bytes, so in theory will actually be 900.94GB

BillytheImpaler · 7 Jan 2007 at 16:40

1 tebibyte = 2^40 bytes = 1,099,511,627,776 bytes = 1,024 gibibytes

Will_3rd · 7 Jan 2007 at 16:41

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terabyte

beaten to it

Phil99 · 7 Jan 2007 at 16:45

mattbrown91 said:
1024Gb

Just a minor point but 1024Gb is 8x less than 1024GB

Neoni · 7 Jan 2007 at 16:46

1024GB, a whole lot of space eh dmpoole

Jotun · 7 Jan 2007 at 16:46

paradigm said:
It "should" be 1099511627776 bytes, but you can guarentee as per with all HDD manufacturers it will be 1000000000000 bytes, so in theory will actually be 900.94GB

Actualy, what the manufacturers say is what it should be.

The manufacturers say 1 terabyte = 10^12, but windows displays 2^40 bytes as 1 terabyte, when it should really be 1 tebi byte (iirc)

Would be nice to get 2^40 instead though...

stigggeh · 7 Jan 2007 at 16:47

dmpoole said:
1 TB Hard Drive Announced

Seagate has announced plans to manufacture the world's first commercial one terabyte solid state hard drive. It is utilizing new technology to keep the drive from overheating and to keep it cooler than other large capacity drives on the market.

Is it a 1000 gig?

the solid state part gets me the most excited

Andelusion · 7 Jan 2007 at 16:48

So much porn :')

Ricochet J · 7 Jan 2007 at 16:54

How long will it take to fully format under Windows XP Setup?

Chronos-X · 7 Jan 2007 at 16:54

BillytheImpaler said:
1 tebibyte = 2^40 bytes = 1,099,511,627,776 bytes = 1,024 gibibytes

No one uses that *ibi/*ebi crap and no one ever will.

Duff-Man · 7 Jan 2007 at 16:56

Actually, hard drives are sold with their space quoted in units of 1000, rather than 1024 with memory. Not sure exactly why, other than it allows larger sounding drives from the same disk-space.

So, a "1Tb" HDD will in fact be 1,000,000,000,000 bytes, or 931.32Gb

Jokester · 7 Jan 2007 at 16:57

Ricochet J said:
How long will it take to fully format under Windows XP Setup?

Long enough to make your PC obsolete

.

Jokester

Craig321 · 7 Jan 2007 at 16:57

Ricochet J said:
How long will it take to fully format under Windows XP Setup?

Should be a couple of years.

just Scott · 7 Jan 2007 at 16:58

Ricochet J said:
How long will it take to fully format under Windows XP Setup?

I'll take a guess and say at least 4 hours.

stigggeh · 7 Jan 2007 at 17:01

H2F Scott said:
I'll take a guess and say at least 4 hours.

solid state drives are ZOOOOM ZOOOOM so i am not sure

http://tomshardware.co.uk/2006/09/20/conventional_hard_drive_obsoletism_uk/page6.html

gord · 7 Jan 2007 at 17:16

SOLID STATE?!

Where has this come from.. ive seen pendrives max of 16.. and they are making one 1000.. am i getting confused here?

How big is 1TB?

Man of Honour