[Cialug] Big Disks

[Colin Burnett]

On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 8:32 AM, Todd Walton <tdwalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> Looking at hard drive prices...  You can get 1 TB for $80!  But what
> would you use that much space for?  I have a 300 GB drive with 1) all
> my data, 2) a couple hundred digital camera pictures, 3) a couple
> hundred low/average quality mp3s, 4) 10 or 12 almost-DVD quality full
> length movie mpgs.  And I haven't filled my 300 GB.  I know it's
> accepted wisdom that one can never have too much disk space, but,
> really, what would I use a terabyte for at home?

The space-hogs are multimedia.  I have my DSLR stuff that I shoot in
RAW and an SD780IS that does 720p video (~3 MB/s).  Shoot a 5 minute
video and that's a GB.  Really, a TB isn't hard.  If you shot 1080p
then you'd eat TB's for breakfast.

You will never need a TB for writing documents, unless you put 1080p
video in it.


Colin