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Well we've been seeing HD space increasing at an exponential rate, so when do you predict the first TB range HD will be available on the market?

2005.

Whenever IBM perfects that optical hard drive they were working on.

What about IBM's mechanical chip thingy I saw in scientific american?

2005? I'll take that and raise the ante, and say by the second quarter of 2004.

Dalton wrote:2005.

I think so too.

wow, and i thought my 80 gig was heavy hitter. i knew they 120gb, but what's the largets consumer HD available?

On Newegg I've seen 240 gig drives.

Can't wait till we hit gb ram.(I'd say around the same time as TB HD)
or Terahertz(2007 or so)

Access times will rise and rise with all that platter increase. It's not how much data we can cram into a HDD that worries me, it's accessing it afterwards.

Rotational velocity keeps increasing, though, so seek times shouldn't be too bad, especially if they continue increasing areal density and/or add more platters.

I'm more concerned about reliability - it's no secret that IDE drives as of late have not been stellar in that concern.

SPOOFE wrote:2005? I'll take that and raise the ante, and say by the second quarter of 2004.

Eh, I'll go with 3Q 2004.

Can't wait till we hit gb ram.(I'd say around the same time as TB HD)

Gigabyte sticks of RAM already exist. They're really expensive, though, about three times as much as 512 mb RAM (which looks like it'll be the new standard for the next year or so).

At the rate they've been increasing, I'd say in a year or two, depending on the demand for really big hard drives. What I'm wondering is when they'll go below $1,000, when computers will reach the petabyte range, and if the increasing amounts of HD space stops.

SPOOFE wrote:

Can't wait till we hit gb ram.(I'd say around the same time as TB HD)

Gigabyte sticks of RAM already exist. They're really expensive, though, about three times as much as 512 mb RAM (which looks like it'll be the new standard for the next year or so).

I've actually seen 2GB sticks of RAM, but they're hideously expensive.

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi wrote:At the rate they've been increasing, I'd say in a year or two, depending on the demand for really big hard drives. What I'm wondering is when they'll go below $1,000, when computers will reach the petabyte range, and if the increasing amounts of HD space stops.

There will always be demand for more storage from various sectors - mostly scientific and media.

phongn wrote: There will always be demand for more storage from various sectors - mostly scientific and media.

Probably militaries as well, especially with entirely new types of sensors coming into service, Ladar, and all sort of autonomous weapons in development.

1gb sticks at pricewatch are around 160-190 dollars for PC2700-PC3500 or there about. Not expensive at all.

... Until you look at prices for 512 mb sticks. However, I remember back when 4 mb chips cost several hundred dollars apiece.

kojikun wrote:1gb sticks at pricewatch are around 160-190 dollars for PC2700-PC3500 or there about. Not expensive at all.

Problem is that those memory sticks advertised are usually Samsung or some other cheap brand; worse yet, you can get factory seconds and not even know it. Better to get a reliable brand such as Kingston or Corsair rather than suffer memory glitches.

Crayz9000 wrote:

kojikun wrote:1gb sticks at pricewatch are around 160-190 dollars for PC2700-PC3500 or there about. Not expensive at all.

Problem is that those memory sticks advertised are usually Samsung or some other cheap brand; worse yet, you can get factory seconds and not even know it. Better to get a reliable brand such as Kingston or Corsair rather than suffer memory glitches.

Samsung actually makes good RAM, but you have to be careful what Samsung RAM you get.

SPOOFE wrote:... Until you look at prices for 512 mb sticks. However, I remember back when 4 mb chips cost several hundred dollars apiece.

My dad had two computers with 32MB of RAM in 1990

phongn wrote:

SPOOFE wrote:... Until you look at prices for 512 mb sticks. However, I remember back when 4 mb chips cost several hundred dollars apiece.

My dad had two computers with 32MB of RAM in 1990

The ones I've had dont really count as they were never "mine" they were simply borrowed from my dad's work over the years....except for this box....this one is mine! All MINE!!!! Bwhahahahahahaha!

Crayz9000 wrote:

kojikun wrote:1gb sticks at pricewatch are around 160-190 dollars for PC2700-PC3500 or there about. Not expensive at all.

Problem is that those memory sticks advertised are usually Samsung or some other cheap brand; worse yet, you can get factory seconds and not even know it. Better to get a reliable brand such as Kingston or Corsair rather than suffer memory glitches.

Memory Glitches... EUGH!!

I think that's what's causing me to BSOD every day. Two PC100s and a PC133, what a nightmare of patchwork engineering!

That isn't neccessarily an issue if you run both at PC100. Still, run Memtest86 and see if there are any problems.