A 1TB hard drive

[spihunter]

@ottomobiehl

This is true. No matter how big they make these hard drives we will always find a way of filling them up.

Yea, Its funny that I have that much space now. I remember when I got my first 120MB drive for my Amiga 2000. I thought I was the sh#$$%%!

[Daedalus]

Indeed, I threw a 1.4GB drive in my 1200 about 8 years ago - cost me an arm and a leg and I thought I'd never fill it up. 3 years lager I got an 8.4GB. 2 years later I got a 40GB. And now I've got an 80GB and the 40GB in there. I have a habit of keeping everything I do, storing ISO images quickly eats through your hard drive space...

[adonay]

well as for HD space i have around 600Gig space and about 70 Gig free witch i could do fine with a 80 Gig but i tend to back upp all my cds and DVD in ISO files witch after a while eats HD space i think we get a bit more bad habbited the more room we get ..or would that be lazyness


adonay :-D

[ottomobiehl]

adonay wrote:
well as for HD space i have around 600Gig space and about 70 Gig free witch i could do fine with a 80 Gig but i tend to back upp all my cds and DVD in ISO files witch after a while eats HD space i think we get a bit more bad habbited the more room we get ..or would that be lazyness


adonay :-D

Just think how much HD space you will need when High Def video becomes the standard.  I suppose that games will be able to add more data because of more room to store the stuff.  Also, I hate to think how big the windows (or any system for that matter) swap file will be when these drives come out

[billt]

Amiga users may not need (or may not think they need) a TB of space, but there are other uses for such things. Chip design involves large files, and lots of them. Google is increasing email again. Hotmail has zillions of email users. My MythTV PVR box has 580gigs, which sounds like and is a lot right now, but will probably feel a lot less spacious when I get my HD tuner working under Gentoo. I also want to hook a security camera up to this box as there' s been rather more vandalizm near my home than I'd like to let  happen.

My first hard drive was 52Megs, my second was one gig that I thought I'd never fill up. Took me a couple months to fill it up... Given the space, people will find junk to put in there and then forget about, like a local disk aminet mirror or something.

[Trev]

The industry is moving towards a zero-storage-management, always-on computing environment.  High density storage advances in both memory and disks and large address spaces (e.g. >= 64-bit) mean never having to delete files or free memory when you need to allocate new resources. Services like Gmail are setting the stage for one hell of a paradigm shift.

And my money's on stem cell and other types of genetic research, not cybernetics.

[Sparky]

Trev wrote:
The industry is moving towards a zero-storage-management, always-on computing environment.  High density storage advances in both memory and disks and large address spaces (e.g. >= 64-bit) mean never having to delete files or free memory when you need to allocate new resources. Services like Gmail are setting the stage for one hell of a paradigm shift.

"Zero Storage Management" ?  I bloody hope not!  I'd be out of a job!!

Mark == "IBM IT Specialist - Storage Management"

Still having a peek at IBM's research webpages shows I've a good few years of job life yet :-)

[Argo]

@Trev
  So, that means once something has been posted online it never goes away. Hmm, better be careful what I post then.

[Trev]

Yup. And that's why I haven't been using my Gmail account--although I think they support deleting things "for real" now. Assuming usage patterns don't change significantly and assuming the technology is available, with 2^64 bytes of RAM in your system, you'll never have to free memory. Ever. I think that's irresponsible, as it indicates a shift towards more rapid consumption of resources in the real world. Social ramifications aside, it's exciting to see the industry getting out of its slump.

@argo

I think that's already a reality. It's quite embarrassing to read some of the Usenet posts I made during the early 90's. :-)