Friday, March 9, 2012

In how much time will we sapeak in TERA as we speak today in GIGA?

How much time will take to we star to use Terabyte instead of Gigabytes?In how much time will we sapeak in TERA as we speak today in GIGA?
I currently have around 6 TB of storage (and I'm looking to expand) 2TB drives are commercially available.

Large companies are talking "Peta" - "Tera" just isn't enough.

In terms of networking, the latest in-home is Gigabit but with multimedia taking up more and more bandwidth, we will inevitably need faster networks as well.

So, in a way, we're already "speaking Tera"In how much time will we sapeak in TERA as we speak today in GIGA?
Terabyte hard drives are fairly common these days, I have two 1.5TB drives, one I put in my server desktop (an older PC that I store all my music and movies on to stream over the network) and the other I put in an external hard drive enclosure where I back up everything from the first drive so that if one fails I have a good backup. There are and have been 2TB drives on the market for a while as well, but the cost per GB is best on the 1.5TB drives which have approached 1TB drives in price while providing an extra 500GB.



I got my drives for $120 for Christmas a year ago and $110 this last Christmas, though my first one was a faster model (which was the first 1.5TB drive to make it to market, also has a higher failure rate than most, which is why I got a different drive the second time).

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