Staples Advertises 6400 Gig Hard Drive; Singularity Quickly approaching.

[Are_grits_groceries]

"Or, you know, maybe it's just a typo. I'd ready your EMP weaponry to be safe."

http://consumerist.com/5120379/staples-advertises-6400-gig-hard-drive-singularity-quickly-approaching

So this is how it all ends...............

[Vickers]

1. Do they have it in other colors?

/shallow

[murray hill farm]

4. I had read years ago that this was expected by 2012.

I think it was the point where computors doubled their capacity for knowledge every day than every hour, etc. It seemed like a pretty cool thing to me, but yep, it would be difficult for a personal computor to function with that occuring.

[Veritas_et_Aequitas]

2. 6400 Gigs... wow.

That's a lot of porn.

[unpossibles]

3. ha!

Have you read Stross' Accelerando?
http://www.accelerando.org/

[Soylent Brice]

13. YES

reading it now.

spiny lobsters RULE!!!

did you see the petraflop computer on the list of best inventions of 2008?

we're almost there.

Stross has nailed it. upload me and shoot me across space anyday!!

[DainBramaged]

5. 640. I called. Typo. But that day is not far off when 6 terabytes will be available.

And solid state devices take over for mundane day to day tasks.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

6. Smallest SAN Array...

I've ever seen. A few of those and you got yourself some real Pr0n storage. Does the NSA know about these size benefits?

[EOTE]

7. The largest I've seen is 1.5 terabytes.

But the per platter density of hard drives is growing very quickly. I'd imagine we'll see a 6400GB (6.4 terabyte) hard drive sometime in 2010.

[Billy Burnett]

8. Imagine how long it would take to defrag and optimize, if it was almost full!

3 days? (not including backing it up!)

[xchrom]

9. size counts. nt

[Eurobabe]

10. Dayum!!

Now that should hold my music and movie collection from iTunes. :rofl:

[derby378]

11. It ain't the size - it's the density

:rofl:

[shraby]

12. One way to find out..go to the Western Digital site.

[Renew Deal]

14. That's a great deal!

:D

[frylock]

15. i'm gonna buy two!!

:bounce:

[Historic NY]

16. That was all just.........too