How big is your hard drive?

by **Caustic Saint** » Thu Sep 25, 2003 4:17 pm

Odds are, it falls a bit short of 1.2TB (terrabytes). And it probably doesn't look like this:

Not Japan related, but very techy and cool. I mean, who wouldn't want to have this drive info pop up on their screen:

Learn how to build your own here.

by **AlbertSiegel** » Fri Sep 26, 2003 4:10 pm

Albert bad big wants hard drive function no goood without!

by **Crispy** » Fri Sep 26, 2003 4:26 pm

60 gigs, just upgraded. I haven't been using it heavily, and if/when I go to Japan I'll probably sell the whole thing before I leave

by **Big Booger** » Sat Sep 27, 2003 11:30 am

240GB, 2 120 drives. Getting another very soon,

by **Caustic Saint** » Sat Sep 27, 2003 11:33 am

Big Booger wrote:240GB, 2 120 drives. Getting another very soon,

Damn, how much porn do you need?

by **cstaylor** » Sat Sep 27, 2003 2:27 pm

Well, if you shoot RAW images with your digital camera, each of those images take 10MB, so that adds up pretty quick.

by **Big Booger** » Sun Sep 28, 2003 10:46 am

Caustic Saint wrote:
Big Booger wrote:240GB, 2 120 drives. Getting another very soon,

Damn, how much porn do you need?

Lots and lots and lots..

by **kotatsuneko** » Sun Sep 28, 2003 11:17 am

1x 80gig wth 8meg buffer

waitin on mate to sort out 2x wd cavaiar 200 gig wth 8meg buffer

gotta prepare for the flood when tosec release their new dats next year...

and sort some vid editing out!

btw, my ram receipt says:

ddr pc2100 cl2.5 512k

that seems like too much info to me, and my shopping mate needs simple precise info.. any idea if i can trim this down to get what i want?

am after 2x 1gig ram boards.. boost me up to 2.5 gig... as ram seems very cheap at the mo!

by **kotatsuneko** » Sun Sep 28, 2003 11:21 am

oh yeh, a nice phat spindle of dvdrs came in the post , so am gonna back up the deck..

running a p4 2.4 w/533 fsb and 512 megs ram

when burning dvdrs should i really turn off my firewall/viri killer and go offline for the best results or am i still thinking of the p2 days?

cheers :wink:

by **bejiita** » Sun Sep 28, 2003 7:55 pm

kotatsuneko wrote:when burning dvdrs should i really turn off my firewall/viri killer and go offline for the best results or am i still thinking of the p2 days?

Still P2. I usually am downloading with my virus checker active while burning. Of course, I turn off my Seti just to be safe. Although with my dual system at work, I can leave Seti running and burning is still okay.

Oh, 3 x 120GB and 1 x 160GB.

by **Caustic Saint** » Sun Sep 28, 2003 8:04 pm

It just dawned on me, I started this topic and never answered the question. Probably because it turns out I've got the smallest drive(s).

20GB internal and 20GB firewire external. Soon to be joined by another firewire 80gb external.

by **Steve Bildermann** » Mon Sep 29, 2003 2:12 am

Really big hard drive arrives...

Really really big application eats it up....

http://www.e4engineering.com/item.asp?id=50014&type=news

A prototype digital video system producing images of such high quality that the human eye struggles to distinguish them from reality has been developed by Japanese engineers.
The system, called ultra high definition video (UHDV), achieves image resolution 16 times greater than even the most advanced video broadcasting technologies now available.

Recording the massive amounts of data needed to produce UHDV definition also posed a problem for NHK. Its engineers were originally only able to make 34 seconds' worth of recording. They have now built a disc recorder system made up of 16 HDTV recorder units with a capacity of about 3.5 terabytes, allowing them to shoot 18 minutes of UHDV footage

Discussion on /. about this

:arrow:

HDTV Television - An Introduction

by **Caustic Saint** » Mon Sep 29, 2003 7:24 am

Steve Bildermann wrote:
Recording the massive amounts of data needed to produce UHDV definition also posed a problem for NHK. Its engineers were originally only able to make 34 seconds' worth of recording. They have now built a disc recorder system made up of 16 HDTV recorder units with a capacity of about 3.5 terabytes, allowing them to shoot 18 minutes of UHDV footage

Holy crap!

And I thought using MiniDV was bad at 11GB per 60-minute tape.

Edit: Just read some of the stuff over at Slashdot. They (the mighty geeks) figured out that UHDV consumes about 3.3GB of storage per second! Somebody over there posed the question I'll repeat here - what kind of media can read/write at that speed? And comes in an 18TB configuration?

by **Big Booger** » Mon Sep 29, 2003 10:37 am

There will come a day when 1000 TB is not enough LOL

by **bejiita** » Mon Sep 29, 2003 1:11 pm

Big Booger wrote:There will come a day when 1000 TB is not enough LOL

Heh, heh, I think that's now. I recently did a HDTV capture and compressed it with DivX. The 4 min. music video came out to approximately 500MB!

by **cstaylor** » Mon Sep 29, 2003 1:30 pm

The worst part is that the way disk systems are currently used doesn't make much sense. If you search Slashdot for "Jim Gray" you'll find a recent interview where he talks about disk storage use. His web page is: http://research.microsoft.com/~gray/

by **vvx** » Tue Sep 30, 2003 4:18 am

Microsoft employee, and he runs an apple?

by **cstaylor** » Tue Sep 30, 2003 9:43 am

Jim Gray is a famous guy in the transaction processing and fault tolerant programming field. He used to work for Tandem computers years ago.

by **Hana_Mizu** » Tue Sep 30, 2003 2:59 pm

1 x 120Gb GXP180 IBM/Hitachi (internal)
2 x 60Gb Maxtor DX740 (internal)
2 x 25Gb Maxtor in external USB 2.0 enclosures

by **GrimJim** » Wed Oct 22, 2003 8:43 am

Heh, heh, I think that's now. I recently did a HDTV capture and compressed it with DivX. The 4 min. music video came out to approximately 500MB!

500MB?! What settings did you use?

by **NeoNecroNomiCron** » Wed Oct 22, 2003 4:27 pm

No way ultra trying to upstage my dancing avatar.

can you upstage this, a very high deffination picture.

by **NeoNecroNomiCron** » Wed Oct 22, 2003 4:29 pm

bikkle wrote:A lot of people are using Windows Media 9 for HD. Check out these sample videos:

High Definition Content Showcase

Unfortunately, I need to upgrade my machine before these will play smoothly.

What card are you using?

I try to keep up with topics at AVS Forum, even though I don't have any HD gear yet.

Wow I downloaded one of thoes movies really HD.

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