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Hitachi Makes 400-Gigabyte Hard Drive

Mar 13, 2004 6:56PM PST

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I have two 160 gigs on my machine. 400 will, of course, become commonplace. (NT)
Mar 14, 2004 10:27AM PST

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Yep, I'm sure. I still have a box from a 341 MB HDD and that hasn't
Mar 14, 2004 10:55AM PST

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been all that long ago. Actually it says 682 MB hard drive with 341 MB capacity. I think that was my son's first computer. At that time I couldn't care less about computers. My first PC was a 2 GB.

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I remember seeing 500 Gig hard drives
Mar 14, 2004 12:03PM PST

But I just recently saw on the back page of a magazine an ad for 1000-Gig hard drive. Japanese I think.

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How do you back up something like that! LOL
Mar 14, 2004 12:42PM PST

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Seems like two, three, or even four 200 GB hard drives would make more sense than one huge one.

Can you imagine defraging something like a 1000 GB?

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shrug, could partition anyway you wanted
Mar 14, 2004 1:00PM PST