Hard drive sizes?

[Feek]

If a 500Gb drive is known as an Arthur (which it is) and a 1Tb drive is known as a Terry (which it is), does that mean the new 1.5Tb drives are known as a Minder?

[Dymetrie]

Isn't it a bit early in the day for you to be exercising the axiom in your sig?

:p

[Darryn]

Hugh? cause its HUGE maybe...

[kaiowas]

I think they're called an "Oh my God I hope you've backed that up cos that's a ****load of data to lose."

[Darrin]

"You thought you had every episode of Dr Who safely saved!! NOT ANY MORE!!! I am such a ****, aren't I?" :evil:

That's what it'll say JUST before the drive grenades on you with no prior indication anything was wrong...

[iCraig]

"TERRORBYTE"

Is what I would call my epicly sized drives.

[semi-pro waster]

Well you live and you learn as they say. Shame they never guaranteed it would be useful trivia that would be made up. :p

[Feek]

Hugh? cause its HUGE maybe...
Nah, what happens when a two terry hits the market? Hugh will just become medium sized.

I think they're called an "Oh my God I hope you've backed that up cos that's a ****load of data to lose."
Meh, one can always download it again ;)

"TERRORBYTE"
If it were scary, I'd agree but it's not any more. Although the cheapness is :)

[Mark]

Meh. Four 1.5TB drives in a Drobo. Total useable capacity - ~4.5TB. Now that's terrifying. The price is pretty scary too. :)

[Daz]

It's scary for me for the wrong reasons. I'm looking at a booking reference for a little EqualLogic box that has 4.8TB capacity. The cost of that compared to a Drobo with similar capcity is very scary.

Apples and Oranges in every other way but capacity, but still.

[Darryn]

Nah, what happens when a two terry hits the market? Hugh will just become medium sized.

I can safely estimate that no-one will every need more than 1.5tb of storage, so no manufacturer will ever make a drive bigger than 1.5tb ;)

Also, i cannot think of a better name for it, ill probably call mine Fred and Elsie... but thats just because i like those names.