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Oh my goodness 120gb ide drives last week now 200gb ide drives this week

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Jes

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Oct 30, 2002, 9:36:56 AM10/30/02
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Oh my goodness 120gb ide drives last week now 200gb ide drives
this week.

The fast changing pace of technology.

I can remember my first PC had a 20Mb file which was considered a
luxury now we are up to these enormious drives.

And soon we'll see Terobyte drives of 1TB or larger for IDE which
is 1000Gb. External Terrobyte drives of up to 7Tb are available now
for over $30,000US the last time I looked.

How far are we away from a one chip pc that has everything built into
it including a Terobyte hard drive, cpu, video, sound etc......
Can't be to far away now.


Anderson Lie

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Oct 30, 2002, 9:50:31 AM10/30/02
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"Jes" <J...@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> Oh my goodness 120gb ide drives last week now 200gb ide drives
> this week.
>
> The fast changing pace of technology.
>

Bah, I reckon hardisk development has been rather stunted in the past year.
120GB has been around for aaages... nothing new at all.

The prices hasn't dropped either for the last 3 months (actually.. it went
up a bit)
.
About time there's something new :)

Anderson

Jes

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Oct 30, 2002, 10:50:51 AM10/30/02
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On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 01:43:52 +1030, "Steve Pugh"
<stev...@optusnet.com.au> wrote:

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>"Anderson Lie" <ande...@1ie.org> wrote in message
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>I'm about to buy a new mainboard that supports serial ATA (Asus P4PE).
>I had no idea what that was so have looked it up.
>They say the next generation of drives will have this new type of interface.
>Initially the transfer speeds will be 150MBps potentially going up to
>600MBps in five years time. The cables and terminations will be different
>too.
>Seagate are supposed to be releasing one soon.
>Seagate warn that some competitors products may initially be a hybrid
>solution not fully realizing the speed potential of the new interface.
>Regards
>Steve

I suppose with dvd burners getting so cheap that some are now looking
at video capture and need faster an dfaster hard drives and so on it
goes the next big thing. There is now a need for such large hard
drives sop many a boom in this area on on the way. Just find it
amazing.

They say every two years the human race doubles all knowdlege going
back to day 1. Just a amazing era that we are in. Just a pity about
some loonies in the world trying to terrorize others. Watched a
program on ch2 at 8:30pm and it was very scarey stuff.

Anyway I wonder how soon we'll see 1Gb video cards or tero herz cpu's
or tb drives etc.....

Must say with the new standard rattified by all the manufactirers of
dvd players/burners in Feb thi syear that Blu Ray looks like it maybe
the next big thing. Holds 27Gb of data but not backward compatible
with current dvd players. Maybe we'll see a dual system like we see
with some vhs/dvd dual player/burners.

Very exciting times ahead.

Steve Pugh

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Oct 30, 2002, 10:13:52 AM10/30/02
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brad

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Oct 30, 2002, 5:19:55 PM10/30/02
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YES you can :) they have compatibility for both. Although there are only a
couple of serial ATA's on the market which at the moment are very limited in
their performance increase...

> I wonder if you can use both serial ATA and IDE drives on the same
> motherboard (given that many new motherboards currently support both)???
>
> Ari
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Bronzed Bodies

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Oct 31, 2002, 12:37:35 AM10/31/02
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On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 01:43:52 +1030, "Steve Pugh"
<stev...@optusnet.com.au> wrote:

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>"Anderson Lie" <ande...@1ie.org> wrote in message
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>> "Jes" <J...@nospam.com> wrote in message
>> news:3dbfed4...@news.bigpond.com...
>> >
>> > Oh my goodness 120gb ide drives last week now 200gb ide drives
>> > this week.
>> >
>> > The fast changing pace of technology.
>> >
>>
>> Bah, I reckon hardisk development has been rather stunted in the past
>year.
>> 120GB has been around for aaages... nothing new at all.
>>
>> The prices hasn't dropped either for the last 3 months (actually.. it went
>> up a bit)
>> .
>> About time there's something new :)
>>
>>
>>
>> Anderson
>>
>>
>I'm about to buy a new mainboard that supports serial ATA (Asus P4PE).
>I had no idea what that was so have looked it up.
>They say the next generation of drives will have this new type of interface.
>Initially the transfer speeds will be 150MBps

Potentially, across the bus.

In reality you won't see a sustained transfer rate anywhere near that.
In fact I doubt that initially you'll even see burst rates near that,
with any Serial ATA drive.

mswindow...@gmail.com

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Op woensdag 30 oktober 2002 15:48:05 UTC+1 schreef Jes het volgende:
One of my classmates has a server with 4 4 TB HDD's :D

Bob Milutinovic

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Feb 27, 2013, 12:52:15 PM2/27/13
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In another decade's time, people will be asking "HDDs? What are they?"

Not to mention the fact that they'll be laughing at someone having a mere
16TB on their computer.

--
Bob Milutinovic
Cognicom

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