CaptainRAVE Posted November 7, 2001 Share Posted November 7, 2001 IBM has announced a new line of hard drives which will use the antiferromagnetically coupled (AFC) media technology, whimsically known as "pixie dust." Pixie dust allows more data to be stored per square inch on a hard drive, meaning that by 2003, IBM should be producing hard drives with a 400GB capacity. The first drives using the new technology will be available this month. Both laptop and desktop drives will be available, including a 120GB desktop which will retail for $349. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GonkH8er Posted November 8, 2001 Share Posted November 8, 2001 amazing..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denise Posted November 8, 2001 Share Posted November 8, 2001 I guess I'm spoiled. That's the trouble with the frenetic leaps of advancement in the computer industry --after a while, it stops surprising you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StormHammer Posted November 8, 2001 Share Posted November 8, 2001 I wouldn't want to defrag a HDD that size. Also, am I not right in saying the bigger the partition, the less efficient the data storage? Hmmm...looks like there would have to be trade-offs for massive capacity. Lastly...you'd need a second drive the same size to back your stuff up...or fill up a hundred DVD-RAMs... I thought it was bad enough when my zip disk got corrupted... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magnum1587246490 Posted November 8, 2001 Share Posted November 8, 2001 Really, I think that We should make more partitions if we don't want to waste 1MB for a 1 byte file Was worries me too, is that I *already* almost run out of partitions available... I *HATE* THE 1 LETTER SYSTEM!!! It's STUPID! Back in the Amiga days you can have any number of partition/disks available, each one with it's own name, and if you wanted to change an application from a disk to another you just "assigned" the name from one to the other... I think that a change is due, but I don't know how are they (micro$hit) are going to do it. Do you realize that we are using a system that 20 years ago was designed to never grow? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainRAVE Posted November 8, 2001 Author Share Posted November 8, 2001 I'll definatly be getting one of those hard drives ....you could never fill a 400Gb HDD, it was last for ages Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Kurgan Posted November 8, 2001 Share Posted November 8, 2001 Well I suppose if you never burned anything to disc and installed EVERY piece of software you owned, and downloaded lots of videos and stuff, then eventually you could fill it I guess. But 150 GB would seem to be the upper limit, even for me. Having a 40 gig forces me to burn stuff occasionally. ; ) I wouldn't trust the stability of IBM drives with that much data in one place anyway (*shudder.. bad experiences*) Kurgan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agen Posted November 8, 2001 Share Posted November 8, 2001 originally said by obi wan I have a bad feeling about this and 3 episodes later I have just heard about a million voice scream at 1 time and yet to be said by obi wan - probably because their whole drive went through the roof due to such a ridiculous amount of disk space [ November 09, 2001: Message edited by: Agen_Terminator ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StormHammer Posted November 9, 2001 Share Posted November 9, 2001 Originally posted by CaptainRAVE: I'll definatly be getting one of those hard drives ....you could never fill a 400Gb HDD, it was last for ages ROFL I don't know if you're joking or serious, Rave... ...but 12 years ago a 286 PC with a 20Mb HDD arrived on my workdesk, and everyone in the office said... 'We'll never fill it! That hard disk is enormous!' And we were right...for about a year. Now, like Kurgan, I have to back up a lot of stuff to free space on my 40Gb drive. At work I've got a 40Gb and a 20Gb...and they're filling up fast. Believe me...you'll fill it...or the software/game developers will fill it for you. Just look at the OS. I remember when DOS fit on a 360k 5.25 inch floppy disk. Now a full install of Win2K etc takes up 1 Gb. Can you imagine what MicroSoft would do with a drive that size? Steal 10 per cent for the recycle bin for a start...that's 40 Gb gone by default. And when you install Windows UltraBloatware (the next incarnation), you can probably say goodbye to another 10 per cent because of all the pretty graphics. We'll never have enough disk space. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Lunatic1587246489 Posted November 10, 2001 Share Posted November 10, 2001 400gb does not shock me. If it was 400tb then i'd be shocked. But 400gb i wouldn't have much trouble filling that up. With cable modem, hard disk space goes very quickly. I filled 20 gb up in a few days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Millions o' Monkeys Posted November 10, 2001 Share Posted November 10, 2001 oh your cable modem...oh woopdy doo *sniff* *sniif* i need a cable modem back to the topic...all you have to do to fill 400gb is install commandos 2 a few times Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Lunatic1587246489 Posted November 10, 2001 Share Posted November 10, 2001 LOL! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainRAVE Posted November 11, 2001 Author Share Posted November 11, 2001 Yea, i fill loads, but i also delete loads once i get bored of the stuff, like games etc. Imagine how fast my T3 fills up my hard drive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Kurgan Posted November 11, 2001 Share Posted November 11, 2001 Yeah, it's not that I download tons and tons of stuff, the 'problem' is that the new games and apps, etc just take up more space. So it's not that people are getting greedier (I have DSL and I have no trouble keeping my 40 gig with open space). I just burn or delete what I don't use/want. Like I said, yeah it would be great to have a bigger and bigger drive, but the bigger it is, the longer it takes to sort through stuff, format, the greater the danger that I'll lose a lot of stuff if it crashes, and it just encourages me to be lazier about managing my data. Kurgan [ November 10, 2001: Message edited by: Kurgan ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cossack1812 Posted November 11, 2001 Share Posted November 11, 2001 *picks jaw up of floor currently having only 6 gigs doesnt help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bartolo_JCS Posted November 11, 2001 Share Posted November 11, 2001 I think I'd stick to mini dvds instead of huge hard disks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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