Hitachi releases one-terabyte drive

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Instantly double my storage? Yes please :)
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Losonti Tokash wrote:
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MKSheppard wrote:does it work with Windows XP SP2?

Why not?
Guy reading over my shoulder thinks it's because there's supposedly a limit to how much space XP can format or something. He doesn't really know what he's talking about and neither do I.
He is probably thinking of the FAT32 limit in XP, which means it can only make FAT32 partitions of up to 32GB. The NTFS filesystem right now has a practical limit of 2TB, and a theoretical limit of 4TB.
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atg wrote:He is probably thinking of the FAT32 limit in XP, which means it can only make FAT32 partitions of up to 32GB. The NTFS filesystem right now has a practical limit of 2TB, and a theoretical limit of 4TB.
256TB is the theoretical limit but as Xon noted, there are some practical problems with that.
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That would hold a lot of porn.
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This sounds like a job for ZFS!
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358 movies? Erm... Movies are between 700 MB and 1.4 GB, in my experience.
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defanatic wrote:358 movies? Erm... Movies are between 700 MB and 1.4 GB, in my experience.
HD movies = VERY LARGE.
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...I need to go pass out in a puddle of my drool. After buying one of these. I mean, good god! It's may not be a true TB capacity HD, but it's something like three times as large as my entire porn/games/movies collection!
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loomer wrote:...I need to go pass out in a puddle of my drool. After buying one of these. I mean, good god! It's may not be a true TB capacity HD, but it's something like three times as large as my entire porn/games/movies collection!
Dude you need more porn.

And as soon as that drive drops some in prize I will get one.
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2nd page and already 3 posts talking about how much porn it would hold.

That's why I love SD.net

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As for the drive size, holy shit, that came out a lot sooner than I expected.
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