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Aqua OS X wrote:

mrreet2001 wrote:

pkmgarf wrote:

Maybe I should clarify...for the average user, 4TB is overkill.

no to the "average" user 40 gigs is over kill.

if a user has all of there music ripped then 200 gigs is over kill

however if a person does any real work such as photos, video, audio

4T would / will / is very handy

And this claim is grounded in what?

More then enough people have several gigs of music and or photos. Moreover, now that people are making and buying movies online, disk space vanishes quickly.

And with the upcoming popularity of integrated version tracking and backup software, 40gigs is going to be crippling.

The average user buys a computer composes a few documents and surfs the internet. Yes they may have a digital camera but 20 gigs worth of photos for a normal user ... I don't think so.

" several gigs of music"
"if a user has all of there music ripped then 200 gigs is over kill"


not sure why people don't read on here

Heh

pkmgarf wrote:

What, may I ask, are you going to put on a 4TB drive?

The next version of Windows should suck up a good chunk of that space

Alien wrote:

Imagine computers powerful enough to process such amounts of data, and that four terabyte drive is starting to make sense. Bear in mind that digital cameras are being equipped with ever larger (at least in pixel count) sensors, too.

Absolutly correct. Plus there will be new technologies coming out that we aren't aware of or using now that will come into play, plus programs will be much more complicated (meaning lots more code) and that's why the 'average' program will be much, much bigger than now. The funniest part is that the original article wasn't even focusing on large hard drives, they were talking about a new technology discovered that allowed for them By the time 2011 comes around who knows what new technologies we'll be using, but whatever it is, it will seem 'normal' to most people.

These days, so will Mac OS X

MyMac8MyPC wrote:

pkmgarf wrote:

Most people don't do drive backups, though they should, but they don't.

Got something to back that up?

I don't have any hard data to back that up, but I sell computers where I work, and the vast majority of users that we sell to are lucky if they can get the internet working, let along backup a drive.  Maybe it's just the people I know, but most don't back up their stuff, at least not to the point of two external drives and such.

As I said before, I agree that by 2011, when this 4TB drive (probably more by then) is out, it may be necessary.  However, for those of us that use their computers recreationally and not for our jobs, it is overkill now. But, hey...who's to say overkill is bad.  Heck, for the "average user" that we sell to at work, no one needs a quad core with 3 gigs of ram.  Vista needs it more than the user does (we sell Macs too...but not many).

On the subject of digital cameras, it is my opinion that anything more than 7 or so mp is overkill (again, for the average person ).  Especially in a pocket sized, point and shoot camera.  The Sony W200 is a 12.1mp camera that is primarily meant as a point and shoot.  The only use I can see for that many mega pixels is for print work or heavy duty, large scale photoshop stuff.

I actually like the Sony W200.  It makes selling th W80 easy!!! It is the same camera (feature wise), with only 7mp instead of 12mp and costs less.....

^^^Oh wow....I feel dumb.  I completely missed that little piece of humor.  I was in a "serious" sort of mode I guess...maybe it's the fact that I was sitting in a history class at the time.

We'll work our way up to Matrix-quality virtual reality.

That will take up more than 4TB.

a rampant computer needs a planetary sized network of computers in order to grow...

pkmgarf wrote:

^^^Oh wow....I feel dumb.  I completely missed that little piece of humor.  I was in a "serious" sort of mode I guess...maybe it's the fact that I was sitting in a history class at the time.

This is the perfect argument against having wireless Internet access in schools.

avkills wrote:

Aqua OS X wrote:

I don't have a hard drive. My OS, apps, and files exist on a series of 3.5 in. double density  floppies.

How wimpy... I still use a 1/4" reel to reel for my OS.

-mark

I'm still feeding punch cards every morning.

HackerJax wrote:

avkills wrote:

Aqua OS X wrote:

I don't have a hard drive. My OS, apps, and files exist on a series of 3.5 in. double density  floppies.

How wimpy... I still use a 1/4" reel to reel for my OS.

-mark

I'm still feeding punch cards every morning.

I'm flipping switches and plugging in wires: http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline … _large.jpg

That's me on the right

Last edited by frankly (2007-10-18 1:21 pm)