Posted by Tricky Dicky on 09/22/85 11:38

"Skipai Otter" <skipaiotter@fishbones.hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>> Skipai Otter wrote:
>>> "Tricky Dicky" <tricky@nospam.clara.co.uk> wrote in message
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>> I suspect you won't with optical disks.
>> The next generation of DVD isn't enough to do current good sized hard
>> drives and by the time recordable versions are available at throwaway
>> prices hard drives will be more than a terabyte
>
> Yeah, it's that new UHDTV standard that gets me though. Uses terabytes
> for only like 3 minutes of footage :)
>
> I think it was only the CDR that managed to keep up with an HDD at one
> point, if only for a short time anyways. Hmmm, I wonder if suddenly
> moving from floppy was the main cause of the HDD sizes ramping up in size
> so quickly?


Hard drive sizes leapt when "high" speed broadband was a reality. If you are
downloading films and thousands of mp3s every 24 hours then you need
somewhere to stick them. Also, some of the games nowadays must be installing
1Gb of program plus several other Gb of support files. I can easily download
5Gb a night of I hit the binary ngs and not so long ago my PC had a 1Gb hard
drive.

I have seen systems shipping with 1Tb by using RAID btw

Tricky

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