Tag Archives: terabyte

The Evolution of Storage

Things sure have changed in the past few decades. The growth in technology has caused an overhaul of what used to be regarded as normal or adequate, especially when it comes to our methods of storage. The helpful little infographic documents just how far we’ve come, or how far our storage has come, or how far we’ve allowed our storage ...

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Second Generation Drobo Improves Performance And Spank Bank

For the past few years, I’ve run out of storage space on my PC for all my pornography media files.� It’s a total bummer, considering the rest of my processes have to suffer due to a lack of porn-holding storage space.� The good news is that Data Robotics has launched the second-generation model of its award-winning Drobo enclosure. FireWire 800 ...

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Half Terabyte Holographic Disks: Bringing The CD Back?

Sony researchers have been working on 20 layered optical disks that can hold up to half a terabyte of data. Using holographic techniques, these disks could serve as external drives all their own, offering 500 GB of storage on a standard disk by 2010 (enough to back up most PCs.) While various companies have been working on similar methods, Sony’s ...

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8 Core Mac Pros now available!

Finally a confirmation on the heavily rumored 8 core Mac Pros. Today on the official Apple website, Jobs and friends finally announced the availability of the uber-exciting 8 Core Intel Xeon. This monster is going to have a storage capability of up to..get ready…3 TB! That’s right, 3 whole terabytes. As Apple says with the announcement “consider the bar raised” ...

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Dell, Alienware shipping terabyte drives

This week, Dell and subsidiary gaming computer company Alienware began shipping 1-TB hard drives in select desktop PCs. The addition of terabyte technology is now available for the XPS, Aurora, and Area-51 desktops. A TB of storage on the Area-51 is available for $320 added on to the normal price. “Digital content use is exploding in the consumer market � ...

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Intel makes first eighty core processor for Tera technology

For the emerging digital trend of the Terabyte, computer scientists are realizing that if there are going to be terabyte sized applications, theres a need for a processing chip that can handle that amount of information. The Intel R&D department have made a chip that has eighty, thats right, eighty processing cores. The chip can perform more then a trillion ...

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1TB hard drive from Seagate? Now you can pirate more!

Four! That’s how many patters the new Seagate hard drive will have when it comes out in the first half of 2007. Why four? Well, right now there is 250GB of storage per platter (which is why the three platter disks are maxing out at 750GB), and this new hard drive is planned to be an entire terabyte. That’s right, ...

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