Western Digitals 250 giger drive

[YeOldeStonecat]

Jeeeze...imagine....4 of these in your system, and you have a terabyte of storage at home!

http://www.hardwarezone.com/articles/articles.hwz?cid=10&aid=748

[LT-73]

MMMMMmmmmmMMMMMmmmm ! :D That 1 drive beats my 2-100 Gigerz in raid with my 60 Giger back up.

[Easto]

Isn't it just amazing where things are going? I just wish I had 250gig of data to store!

[loop2kil]

Originally posted by Easto
Isn't it just amazing where things are going? I just wish I had 250gig of data to store!

give me a couple of days on usenet and i could fill one up :)

[LanEvo IV]

isnt it that the bigger the drive the more space you loose when you format or somthing like that...

plz clear things up for me... i heard this and not sure...

[HawaiianGhost]

Originally posted by LanEvo IV
isnt it that the bigger the drive the more space you loose when you format or somthing like that...

plz clear things up for me... i heard this and not sure...

Yeah, you're right in way. You "lose" GB'z due to formatting purposes - you don't just lose it. I.e. to format my 2xWD800JB'z(80GB'z ea)= 160GB'z in RAID-0, after formatting it I ended up with 157GB'z to play with. So my "best guess" with a 250G'er you'd "lose" somewhere around 5 - 6GB'z of space due to formatting, leaving you with approx. 244GB'z of storage space to play with - Now are you really worried about that???

Imagine four of those like YOSC mentioned - 4x244GB'z = 976GB'z worth of storage?!?! Wow!!, yeah like I'm gonna really worry about NOT having enough storage space due to a 24GB space lost because I had to format it to use it....:D

[YARDofSTUF]

and all i got are little 30, 36, 40, and 80 gig drives here lol

[BaLa]

I remember when I got a 2 gig drive yrs ago...

my dad said
you'll never use all of it :rotfl:

[mountainman]

Whatever OS comes out after XP will probably make you need a 250giger... LOL

Storage hog.

:D