IBM breakthrough to quadruple hard disk size

[bonkers325]

The days of 400-gigabyte hard drives in desktop PCs may be closer than most computer users realize. IBM Corp. says it has cracked a barrier in disk drive design ? a breakthrough that would eventually quadruple the data density of a hard disk and give consumers improved options to store their growing amounts of digital data.

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oh yeah more pron and mp3's

 

[Spook]

I don't know what I'm going to do with 90G's let alone 400G's... but at least one good thing with higher compressions come faster access speeds....

 

[TunaBoo]

<< Today, many PCs
come with hard drives
ranging from 10
gigabytes to 20
gigabytes. One with 40
gigabytes is on the high
end. >>



haha 40 GB is top end?

 

[Duvie]

Sounds great...60gigs isn't cutting it for me know...I would love to rip dvds on the hDD and leave them there unitl dvd-rw's and the media are cheap enough...

If the price would be around the higher end hdd models now that would be acheap alternative for storage of up to a 100 dvd movies.

 

[Raspewtin]

mmm, more bloatware 😉

 

[bonkers325]

can we say 100gig platters

 

[nEoTeChMaN]

Whoa!!...imagine RAID 1 configuration (duplexing) with (2) 400GB HD. :Q

 

[Insane3D]

Imagine doing a format procedure in MS-DOS...48hrs? 😉

 

[Dravic]

lol.. format procdures are def. going to need to speed up. getting close to being the longest part of a base install on the 1.4ghz and up cpus.

 

[MikeO]

<< I don't know what I'm going to do with 90G's let alone 400G's... but at least one good thing with higher compressions come faster access speeds.... >>





I would know. DVD's! One takes about 6 gigs ripped... mmm, you could get *few* of those on that 400 gig drive.

 

[thorin]

&quot;I don't know what I'm going to do with 90G's let alone 400G's... but at least one good thing with higher compressions come faster access speeds.... &quot;

You'll fill it with Microslop BloatWare.

Thorin

 

[jeffrey]

It's never enough, let the good times roll IBM!

 

[bonkers325]

<< Imagine doing a format procedure in MS-DOS...48hrs? 😉 >>



formatting in dos a 60gig is only 20mins
so figure a 400 gig about 130mins

but why bother use a disk manager