[Jason Dunn]

http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?id=10118

"The LaCie Bigger Disk, with the largest hard drive capacity available, is a unique innovation that packs an amazing 1 terabyte of storage space in a manageable 5.25" form factor. With this unsurpassed storage capacity, the LaCie Bigger Disk allows users to store nearly two years of continuous music and up to one month of non-stop MPEG-2 video1. Truly plug and play, this device requires no driver or software installation for Windows XP and Mac OS X users."

Sweet Lord! 8O I've got nearly a terabyte of storage in my home computing environment, but that's spread over five computers and several external hard drives. 1000 GB in a SINGLE external device? Wow...that's mind-boggling. I'd actually be a little worried about keeping so much data in once place - what happens if the drives fail? You'd need a second 1 TB drive just to back the first one up. ;-) And at price tag of $1199 USD, it's not for the timid, but then again, only the bold need 1 TB of storage.

[Jason Dunn]

http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?id=10118

"The LaCie Bigger Disk, with the largest hard drive capacity available, is a unique innovation that packs an amazing 1 terabyte of storage space in a manageable 5.25" form factor. With this unsurpassed storage capacity, the LaCie Bigger Disk allows users to store nearly two years of continuous music and up to one month of non-stop MPEG-2 video1. Truly plug and play, this device requires no driver or software installation for Windows XP and Mac OS X users."

Sweet Lord! 8O I've got nearly a terabyte of storage in my home computing environment, but that's spread over five computers and several external hard drives. 1000 GB in a SINGLE external device? Wow...that's mind-boggling. I'd actually be a little worried about keeping so much data in once place - what happens if the drives fail? You'd need a second 1 TB drive just to back the first one up. ;-) And at price tag of $1199 USD, it's not for the timid, but then again, only the bold need 1 TB of storage.

[Gary Sheynkman]

That is $$$ but I'd so hit it.

Can you imagine how long it would take to fill that thing up even with USB2 or Firewire??? 8O

[Kevin Jackson]

8O

I know what I'm putting on my birthday list.

[klinux]

After this article, I did a quick calculation and found I too got approx 830 GB of HD (630 GB for PC and 200 GB for Mac) space at home! Time to do some clean up and head to eBay!

At one TB, it would take about 8 hours to fill up that sucker with FW400 or USB2 but only 5 hours using FW800.

[bryhawks]

Originally Posted by Jason Dunn

Sweet Lord! 8O

Ha! Your comment made me laugh out loud! Of course, I echo your sentiments exactly! I've only got a mere 360GB in total, but being of archival persuasion as yourself, oh, for a terabyte!

[kagayaki1]

I'm really curious what's inside the drive. I parused the specs and datasheet, but I couldn't find anything on it. Who's the OEM on this?

-Jason

[bryhawks]

I'm curious too - is it one single 5.25" drive w/ multiple platters/heads, or is this a combination of several more readily-available 3.5" drives packed together? I didn't know anyone was producing a 5.25" platter anymore, but that might just be an indication of how much I don't know.

[Jason Dunn]

Originally Posted by Bryhawks

I'm curious too - is it one single 5.25" drive w/ multiple platters/heads, or is this a combination of several more readily-available 3.5" drives packed together? I didn't know anyone was producing a 5.25" platter anymore, but that might just be an indication of how much I don't know.

I'm 95% sure it's a series of 3.5" hard drives (probably four) in some sort of seamless array...

[Gary Sheynkman]

I have 14 gb

[Phoenix]

Crikey! That's INSANE!!!!! :crazyeyes:

Anybody need some space? Anybody makin' a movie? Toy Story 3, 4, and 5?


I wonder if they make an internal version of this drive? Now if they could only stuff this into a laptop! LOL, yeah right!