500 GB Hard Drive

ESALADUANE · #1 12-10-2002, 01:17 AM

If you've never seen a 500 GB hard drive check this out:

http://www.lacie.com/products/produc...250090278D3Ed0

chrisranjana · #2 12-13-2002, 04:04 AM

when for $900 you could assemble yourself a computer why invest in 500GB !

dumdum · #3 12-13-2002, 08:14 AM

ugly and useless. If its not bootable, and if its not protected in the pc case, its not for everyone!!!

Protocol Droid · #4 12-15-2002, 05:19 AM

I'm impressed with 500 GB on a hard drive. But I'm having trouble filling up my 80 GB drive. I may not think this way down the road, but I don't see why a 500GB drive would ever be needed.

The Tool · #5 12-15-2002, 05:23 AM

It will be very useful for Google

Protocol Droid · #6 12-15-2002, 05:48 AM

For them, I'm sure it will...3,083,324,652 web sites in its db. I wonder how much space that would take.

The Tool · #7 12-15-2002, 08:12 AM

Google currently has about 20,000 (500 MHz) Pentium II processors installed across four sites in the US. They receive over 100 million queries daily. They have indexed over 3 billion web pages, where the typical page is 10 KBytes of data.

dumdum · #8 12-15-2002, 11:36 AM

Usefull to Google Yes, Someday might be usefull to a home user, but dont think its a hot item! someday we will all need a 500GB but not at this time, i sure hope by the time we have a need for a storage device this size it will be much faster!!!

DA Master · #9 12-19-2002, 06:54 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Protocol Droid
I may not think this way down the road, but I don't see why a 500GB drive would ever be needed.

Maybe a web server?