How much disk space on your development machine?

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How much disk space on your development machine?

Poll ended at Thu Jun 28, 2007 1:40 am

8 GB or less
0
No votes
16 GB
0
No votes
32 GB
1
3%
64 GB
3
10%
128 GB
4
14%
256 GB
8
28%
512 GB
9
31%
1 TB
4
14%
2 TB or more
0
No votes
 
Total votes: 29

Dann Corbit
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Re: How much disk space on your development machine?

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sje wrote:Yes, and you have to buy these in pairs as the only practical way to back up a 1 TB drive is to copy its contents to another 1 TB drive.
Terabyte tape drives have been shipping for 5 years.
http://www.internetnews.com/storage/article.php/1560791

Here is a 12 TB unit:
http://www.9to5computer.com/exabyte-x200.htm

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
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Re: How much disk space on your development machine?

Post by Dann Corbit »

Big database systems:
http://www.businessintelligencelowdown. ... gest_.html

The comments list a lot more than the article.

I guess that there are thousands of terabyte database systems and maybe a dozen petabyte systems. In ten years, petabyte databases will be common.

Often, we have limited systems simply because the technology won't currently allow a better system.

For instance, for GIS applications, I suspect that the US will be digitized to within a millimeter in a few decades.
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Re: How much disk space on your development machine?

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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.

Maya, Photoshop Premiere, etc.
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Re: How much disk space on your development machine?

Post by jshriver »

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

Gotta love technology hehe.