1TB Hard Drive - In a store near you!

[EvilWeevil]

OK, I'll go with that, but if we're giving respect, let's at least spell it right terabyte.

I had a leaflet advertising some sort of Yahoo webhosting which boasted about how many "Terra Bytes" of storage they could offer you...

[aidanjt]

OK, I'll go with that, but if we're giving respect, let's at least spell it right terabyte.

Mi speelin s gd mk? lol

[hsncool]

just like kilobytes, i think we shud jus say a "a 5T hard drive" T sounds much better., and if we did follow magabyte= meg, gigabyte = gig, then terrorbyte should = terror, which is silly, rather like kilo is, as it sounds like we're talking about something else (weight / fear), so lets stick to T

you know all of that made sence!

also, the article linked to in the first post says....

Hitachi’s Deskstar 7K1000 HDS721010KLA330 model features five 250GB platters and ten heads, has 7200rpm motor as well as 32MB data buffer.

wouldn't that be 1.25-T ???

and is it just me, or does going on the website generate an error?

[smallstool]

I remember buying a 30mb hard drive from Evesham Micro's for £399 + vat many years ago!

[Akira]

Another article on hexus says that "Tera" is based on a Greek word meaning "Monster"...

How about I've got a new 3 Monster Hard Drive?

[Thorsson]

From Wiki: "comes from the Greek τέρας, meaning monster". As it has 5 platters, perhaps they should have called it "Hydra"...