Microdrive's looking good for storage

[FarFarAway]

Yes another storage medium for you to go out and buy.

Looks pretty good tho.

Here's a pic:

The race to cram more information into even smaller spaces shows no sign of slowing: last week, Seagate announced the first 1-inch hard drive with an 8GB, the ST1. The drive is capable of storing 200 hours of audio or approx. 4,000 songs, and is also available in 6GB, 5GB, 4GB, 3GB and 2.5GB sizes.

As the technology matures, Perpendicular Recording is expected to increase storage capacities by as much as a 10-fold, representing 60 gigabytes on a Compact Flash card and desktop hard drives of three to five terabytes over the next 5-7 years. If you think that sounds a bit silly, consider for a minute how far we have come in the same period to today: the original Microdrive was just 340MB in 1999, increasing over 20-fold in six years to 8G

OK, so I'm not particularly interested in this....but it is a good thing and looks like drives will be over a terabyte pretty damn soon.

I just don't see what the hell I'm gonna need 1tb for :eh: I mean...my 76gb Maxtor does me!!

Article@ Bit-Tech

 

[ionicle_old]

1tb could store a loooooooooooooooooooooooooooot of music! n i like music, my 200 gig is neerly full of music and i am prolly gonna get a 300 gig sata when i finish payin off the debt i got myself in for dave's card lol

 

[Dav0s]

i cant fill 80gb....and i cant believe you have 200gb of music...i have 5gb - 1000 songs. i mean seriously you cant have 40,000 songs can you?? busted havent released that much

 

[ionicle_old]

no, but all my songs are windows media lossless format and about 80mb each

BUSTED?!

 

[FarFarAway]

no, but all my songs are windows media lossless format and about 80mb each

Sometimes I wonder about you you ionicle...I really do

 

[ionicle_old]

y, whats wrong with windows media lossless formet? and songs bein 80mb apiece surely tham makes em better quality?

 

[limqareb]

the largest song is 75mb it is 45min long of pvd and has 192kbps bit rate

 

[Dav0s]

y, whats wrong with windows media lossless formet? and songs bein 80mb apiece surely tham makes em better quality?

yes they are good quality...but why?? i bet youn use crappy speakers and onboard sound so why do you care that it is good quality songs if you cant tell the difference.

 

[ionicle_old]

there about 1021 kbps and what du u mean i cant tell the difference?!

 

[limqareb]

yes they are good quality...but why?? i bet youn use crappy speakers and onboard sound so why do you care that it is good quality songs if you cant tell the difference.

i dont have crappy speakers and my sound card is not onboard i have something like a creative audigy ls

 

[ionicle_old]

whats one of them?

and dave i have 2:1 suround sound speakers, and yes i use onboard sound, cos when i pluged in a sound card it woulddnt take it

 

[FarFarAway]

there about 1021 kbps and what du u mean i cant tell the difference?!

If you're really an audiophile then you would be listening to a beautiful set of House speakers (B&W, B&O etc) all played through a top-notch CD player and through a valve amp.....but you're not so converting them to mp3 won't make much of a difference

 

[ionicle_old]

there all .wma format atm and i think it is ok

 

[Joe]

ma 200gb has 8 Gb free round 40 gb music, 50 gb games, 50 gb video and round 30 for linux i need more space :'(

 

[ionicle_old]

i have 200 gig, and 119 is music, 22 is games and 1.8 is windows and there is about 12 gb free, cos the rest is paged file