Other than a high definition video library, is there any mainstream application that needs one or more terabytes of storage?
There are lots of database systems in the terabyte range, with a few in the petabyte range now.
If flash memory technology keeps up its current rate of advancement, then traditional hard drives may become obsolete in a few years. Already there are IDE adapters for swapping out a hard drive for a 32 GB flash memory assembly in a notebook.
My brother in law's father has a patent for recording a terabyte on a space the size of a dime, and subsequent reading of the entire data set happens instantly with CCDs. http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/wo.jsp?wo=1998000843
sje wrote:
Other than a high definition video library, is there any mainstream application that needs one or more terabytes of storage?
Anything that uses the full 6-men egtb set Other than that, video editing and authoring can chew up a 1tb drive. Especially if you're doing raw DV for source input.
While the poll is closed my development machine has just about 1TB right now. But with 500gig external Seagate USB2.0/FW drives going for $139-$150 now a days I plan to double that within a month.
I feel old, I remember when I first starting learning about computers and the 500meg drive was awesome. Then I wanted a 1gig drive but they sold for 1k US lol. Now I can get a 4gig USB 2.0 thumb drive for $30US