Hi, One of the mistakes made in the past with computers is the thinking: "how will anyone ever need a capacity more than X" -e.g. won't need more than 640kbytes of memory.
Sadly, as the available capacity has grown, the usage has grown also. === We currently have many digital cameras on the market. In a few years, you will be able to buy video cameras that store to flash. These will require serious disk space. ==== with several drives, and a bit of nice RAIDing, I can get faster access with error correcting backup sectors. yeah... ==== The cost of hard drives has continued to drop, and has reached a point where hard drives are now candidates for backup systems. We can have a discussion on the merits of hard drives over tape systems for backups. I would rather not, but... Consider this: a 1TB drive (or two) on the server and everything is copied to the drive. On each subsequent night, an incremental backup to the drive.. With such a system, you can very very quickly (compared to tape) go back to examine some file as of some date. So 1TB drives:: yes please. Derek. ========================================================== > > Seriously I have no idea what anyone could want with a desktop with one > > Tb except for excessive (illegal) downloading of movies/music. > -- Derek Smithies Ph.D. IndraNet Technologies Ltd. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph +64 3 365 6485 Web: http://www.indranet-technologies.com/
