January 5, 200719 yr http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid5_gci1237560,00.html
January 5, 200719 yr http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid5_gci1237560,00.html Those 1TB drives will be a tad more expensive at first than the ones currently on sale at newegg/mwave/outpost; I saw one article predicting a $400. pricetag though, so pressure will be on to reduce the prices of 500G and 750G drives too. 11 Terabytes should hold most "normal" sized media collections and even a few "large" collections. At roughly 6 Gig per ISO image it would hold over 1800 movies... If you really needed to and you had a REALLY-BIG collection of movies, you could compress the ISO images a bit to get them to average 5 Gig each.... then you could store 2200 movies... It would store my DVD collection...and then some Joe L.
January 6, 200719 yr You need to check your math Joe L. It's more like 180 movies Throw in HD and that drops to like 60 movies.
January 6, 200719 yr You need to check your math Joe L. It's more like 180 movies. Unless I'm missing something, I agree with Joe. A single 1TB drive is 1,000GB (You could argue it should be 1,024GB, but the drive manufacturers don't see it that way). So eleven 1TB drives would equal 11,000GB of storage (11 *1,000) If you assume a DVD movie ISO image is 6GB in size, then those eleven 1TB drives would hold 1,833 movies (11,000/6) Where's the error?
January 6, 200719 yr My bad, I thought Joe was referring to on disk, not the whole array. Sorry 'bout that, it's right. $4K for 11 TB, ouch. But it's nice to know it's a possibility!
January 10, 200818 yr Nice to think how things have changed in a year. $250 1TB drives and 15TB storage potential! See you in Jan. 2009!
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