Whats your Hard Drive Capacity?

[PantallicA]

16gig with 3x 128gig drives on my home server.

[mpeck]

Hitachi's coming out with a 500 GB hard drive, should be release late this year, thats insane, get a comp that can hold like 4 HD's, and load em up with 4 of those

they say it can hold about 200 hours of video

[PantallicA]

Why would you need a 500gb drive?

Plus, those things with be thousands of dollars.

[mpeck]

i'm guessing it will be like 600 bux, cause an 80 gig is like 80-100, so, if you calculate it, thats between 500 and 625 buxs for a 500 gig, i would rather spend that and get a new mother board, and proccessor, and turn my comp into a dual proccessor.

[PantallicA]

It'll be much more than that, because:

A) It's brand new.
B) If it's only Hitachi that's doing it right now, they'd have a Monopoly on 500gb drives and people would be forced to buy from them if they really needed it, allowing them more profit.

[mpeck]

yeah, but even if they charge a whole lot, the more they charge, the less people will buy it, besides, most people wont even use half of that, the average computer (familiy comp that is), uses between a 40-80 gig HD, people will just see 500 as never being used

[PantallicA]

which is precisely why I think it's stupid to manufacture something like that.

[Mr. Fabulous]

Pantallica the most it will be is 750$, because it isn't just Hitachi that has a 500 HD coming out.

And wtf man? When have you heard of any component for your computer that would cost more then 2,000$? Beside's aybe your processor, but even then it's gonna be a dual of the best.

[PantallicA]

I've seen server motherboards that go for more than $10 000

My dad is a technician, so I've seen alot of kickass computer shit.

[Mr. Fabulous]

That's for a fu**ing server though, not a normal everyday computer.

[Azrael_learza]

I doubt I'll ever even fill my 40, so meh!!!

[PantallicA]

And what kind of everyday normal computer will need 500gb? I have a server in the other room which hosts 114 gb of music. That's even way too much. My personal computer has an 16 gb HDD, and I only need to use a little of it for diablo and all my IM's and stuff.

500gb is way too much.

[Mr. Fabulous]

I know quite a few designer's that wouldn't mind having a 500 gig HD, and it realy isn't all taht far from an everyday comp, I mean at Best Buy I'm starting to see 250's as a standard.

[ArcaneSupremacy]

i have 40gb and i haven't even filled half of that yet.

[EmptyII]

whats the point of 500gb.......i seriously doubt u can fill all of that by the time the price drops atleast $200