I want a petabyte hard drive.

[Zero Beat]

Well not really, but I'd hate to see why a normal computer user would need a petabyte hard drive.

(A petabyte is:

1024 megabytes = 1 gigabyte
1024 gigabytes = 1 terabyte
1024 terabytes = 1 petabyte)

-Also, some people round down, 1000, or some follow the rule they have. This follows the rule-

THATS A LOT OF DATA! Here is some stats:

1 petabyte = 20 million four-drawer filing cabinets filled with text.
1 petabyte = 13.3 YEARS of HD-TV video
1.5 petabytes = size of the 10 billion photos on Facebook.
20 petabytes = THE AMOUNT OF DATA PROCESSED BY GOOGLE IN ONE DAY!
50 petabytes = ALL THE WRITTEN WORKS OF MANKIND, FROM THE START OF RECORDED HISTORY TO NOW! In all the languages of the world!

Other facts: 1GB was $228 in 1998, in March 2007 it was $0.88, in 2007 Hitachi started the first terabyte HD, which is 1000GB

Just think in say 2015, all computers will have petabyte HD's and they would look back at our gigabyte HDs and laugh. Gig would become meg, tera would be the gig of out time, and tera would be petabyte xD

NOW THE POINT OF THIS!

What would you use a 1 petabyte HD for? xD

PORN is my answer!!! >.> I mean... stuff? xD

[wyatt]

ROFL u made me laugh really hard, now that i think of it, i want a HD for this laptop thats 500 petabytes and hmmm uhhhh hows about a 96GHzmulticore processor, sounds nice and y not 2 Pb/s highspeed wireless internet, what a dream come true ^.^

[Magus]

1gb to 1tb in ten years. I think we will make the 1tb to 1pb in the same time period. And I believe that at the end of the century, they will reach up to 1 Yottabyte ethereal storage.

[Continuum]

1gb to 1tb in ten years. I think we will make the 1tb to 1pb in the same time period. And I believe that at the end of the century, they will reach up to 1 Yottabyte ethereal storage.

http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/10/universehdd.jpg

We just contained every single info in the universe in a single tiny hard drive. Technology is endless!

[Azunite]

You can be surprised how people fill up a Terabyte in mere days

[darkwoon]

What would I use it for? To store the pirate holographic copies of the 20th season of Dr House :).

More realistically, I'd say that progress of storage space will benefit reliability and performances strategies more than the simple goal of "storing more files" - when you've so much space available, you can afford "wasting" some of it to make redundant copies of files or to implement huge content indexing databases.

[Cloud]

what wouldnt i use it for is more the question
since i actually could use it for everything

[ShatteredWings]

I think i'd never save over anything again if i had that kind of drive space....

[Amnesiac]

I can't even fill up a half-terabyte. What the hell would I do with all that space?

[Commander Thor]

I'd do with a 1PB drive what I already do. Download files without even thinking about it.
In 2 short years, I've already downloaded near 2TB without having to delete anything. So yeah. I could fill up a PB in a pretty short amount of time, without really even thinking about it.

[gleeguy]

I would probally make a virtual machine of every known os including EVERY Linux distro and give them all 1tb drives, that may require large amounts of ran if used at the same time so how about I add 500gb of ram and a 100ghz processor not to mention a fast hard drive needle

[Amnesiac]

I'd do with a 1PB drive what I already do. Download files without even thinking about it.
In 2 short years, I've already downloaded near 2TB without having to delete anything. So yeah. I could fill up a PB in a pretty short amount of time, without really even thinking about it.

That makes me cringe. You see, I'm a neat freak when it comes to organizing files. I delete everything and always make sure my folders are organized and professional. I'd spend all my time "trimming" my data if I had a petabyte of HDD space.

[Commander Thor]

That makes me cringe. You see, I'm a neat freak when it comes to organizing files. I delete everything and always make sure my folders are organized and professional. I'd spend all my time "trimming" my data if I had a petabyte of HDD space.

Oh don't get me wrong. I'm a neat freak as well. I've spent days, even weeks at a time going through my hard drives, and organizing them. Making sure every file is in it's proper place.
I just have no need to delete anything, that's all. So I don't, unless there's multiple copies of the same file.

Hell, I haven't even emptied my recycle bin since I installed Windows. :p

[Amnesiac]

Oh don't get me wrong. I'm a neat freak as well. I've spent days, even weeks at a time going through my hard drives, and organizing them. Making sure every file is in it's proper place.
I just have no need to delete anything, that's all. So I don't, unless there's multiple copies of the same file.

Hell, I haven't even emptied my recycle bin since I installed Windows. :p

I always delete things. If they're not deleted, they get categorized and a proper file name. I always empty my recycle bin, and I'm always uninstalling software. IT'S ESSENTIAL! :P