But that kind of storage is only available on hard drives so far, as SSD flash drives have lagged behind. And, as I originally posted about, I would love to be able to download all of my movies onto it, so I really need more memory— maybe 4 or 5 TB. So for some people, it still IS important for manufacturers to use that type of storage as a selling point. I want the biggest they have!
So I guess I still have a bit of waiting to do. That being said, Romania has some of the fastest internet speeds around, having upgrades the country to 4G, with plans to have 5G by It is good to hear from you again. I am glad you are enjoying your summer in Romania. I am fascinated that Romania would have fast internet speed but I am guessing speculation that they did not have legacy networking to deal with.
Rather than develop from dial-up, they perhaps started with a faster platform and it was easy to upgrade from there. There are some advantages to not having legacy systems and processes to tie you down but that is a topic for another blog posting Thanks David for checking in. It sounds like there is a potential market I am sure you have like-minded friends for an easy storage product. I am not familiar with Sort-It but I will have to check it out.
It would be great to have a similar product for cataloguing pictures but unfortunately those do not come with bar codes or liner notes except your own memory. I work from home 8 — 10 hrs a day on Internet I have 2 gamers who are online constantly and the others use wifi quite a bit. Is 1 terabyte enough for my family? Christa, it sounds like you have a busy household. You may have a lot of data passing over your wi-fi but 1 terabyte of storage should be sufficient for your family unless you start to build up a library of movies or videos or even music.
As long as you are streaming content, you are not necessarily storing it so it would not count towards your 1Tb limit. You will most likely be limited in internet bandwidth long before you run out of storage. David, I just came across this article ant it is interesting how much and little has changed since this entry started.
My observation is that most people are getting their content from online sources like YouTube or Netflix. In fact a few years ago my I. My biggest issue seems to be hardware failure and backup time. I remember not only paper tape but hollerith cards and when 4k of ram was typical.
I probably have about TB of hard drives, but I know very few people who have more than a few TB. Kelly, I read your blog in preparation to launch our new service offering. Thanks for the note. This topic is almost a nightly conversation in my house due to aging parents so I am thrilled that you have created this service for your clients.
It is sorely needed. I will send you an email so we can discuss further. Hi Kelly, I have just found this blog and think I will read some of the other ones plus the newer ones. Thanks, Lisa. I plan on reading more of it. I like what you have said, and I agree, if you are keeping a terabyte of logs on hard drives, I would sure hope they had a workforce of over one hundred.
However, as a gamer I hate that phrase and someone who handles 4k video, I can blow through a terabyte hard drive only two weeks after I have reinstalled windows.
They would go to a sports game and take pictures or a play. Or have some fall pictures with the family and take pics.
Who has time to look at all those photos? How much of our lives need to be documented? How does one even find a particular photo with that much there? Video is even worse. You may be carrying around Terabytes of family videos, but is anyone even watching them? Think of them as if you were someone else, forced to look at them all. Would you really want to look at 20, photos?
Especially when most of them are probably very similar to each other? See uncle Joe. See him standing next to Grampaw. Now see him on the other side of Grampaw….. I have, I think, between and photos on my phone; the total summary of my life, taken in the last 2 years. I can only imagine how many Instagram photos flood their servers every minute. And I have friends on Facebook that upload upwards of 40 pictures of a family dinner, and maybe 80 pictures from a trip to a museum. And professional photographers throwing out a hundred or so photos per day.
When I think about RAID arrays filling up so fast, I think about how fast data centers need to be built to keep up and the feeling that comes over me can best be described as a sense of overwhelm. Are our storage technologies improving at the rate needed to keep up? When will we have so many indexing tables to catalog it all? I imagine YouTube would re-institute the minute limit from back in the day. Or rather, they should. Even if we can keep up, I feel that in the next 30 years there will be too much of everything.
Too many movies, videos, shows, music, podcasts, cat pictures. I just feel like people really need to slow down. I do apologize if this comes out more as a rant than a philosophical waxing, but these are the thoughts that have been haunting me enough to Google and find a thread such as this. Thank you for your thoughts. When I wrote this blog post I did not envision that we would have a philosophical and technical discussion on the merits of storage but it is indeed appropriate.
We can continue to build new data centers but at what cost? We need to start talking about responsibility OR we need to move to application such as Snapchat that house images only temporarily. I am glad that we are starting the conversation here. Thanks for being part of it. I am living what you guys are talking about, because here in Ashburn, Virginia, a new suburban community, the housing tracts are interspersed, strangely enough, with massive data centers.
These huge, windowless, imposing edifices seem to sprout up almost overnight, around every other corner. I only know because I live here now. The amount of data in them all combined must be nearly inconceivable, yet they continue to build more. I only wonder how much access the government agencies have to them. It must be a coincidence that Ashburn is just outside Washington D. Movies that are bought are bought to save and re-watch. To re-watch your favorites, just re-watching one movie a day is movies in one year.
And I like new movies also. I watch around 2 movies a day. How much time does someone spend watching TV per day? Serious movie buffs are more inclined to skip the cable TV and stick with movies. Serious movie buffs can easily own far over movies — and to keep track? Its just a simple list of titles in excel. So is my Probably so. Will I ever fill it all up? By the time I have enough stuff to fill up such drives the average drive capacity will be so much higher, that it will be like holding on to that massive 3.
I eventually intend to build a Linux based NAS system just for the fun of it. But I doubt I will do a RAID system and will probably just name them all individually or perhaps create a backup system with half of them. Otherwise, you only need one; a HDD is cheaper, larger, slower, and more prone to data loss.
A SSD are normally smaller in storage for the same price but faster and shock resistant. SSDs commonly use less power and result in longer battery life because data access is much faster and the device is idle more often. The HDD offers high storage capacities at a low price, while the SSD provides blazing fast access speeds at a higher cost. Used together, PC users can access their most important files quickly via the SSD, while storing media and other large files on their less expensive HDD.
SSDs can give you a significant speed boost in a number of ways. Boot time using a solid-state drive averages about seconds as compared to seconds for a hard drive. The short answer is no. Solid-State Drives SSDs have no mechanical or moving parts, which makes them ideal for mobile devices.
Up to a point RAM is of much greater importance. To figure out this question, you should know how much is 1TB of storage and how much files you can store on 1TB. For me, it's a lot of storage, because I don't install any games on my computer, I don't download too many movies or music on my computer, I don't make any backup, etc.
I just install office apps, PS, and instant messaging app on my computer. In addition, I often free up the space on my computer. This article answers the question and shows how to upgrade to a solid-state drive. Harddrive prices are driven deep into the surface of the earth by the fact SSDs are becoming cheaper and cheaper, because the market demands more and more SSDs the price are going down. Many laptops only have SSD storage, for example.
SSD prices have come down a lot in recent times, too, with the price per gigabyte much lower than it once was. SSDs can withstand accidental drops and other shocks, vibration, extreme temperatures, and magnetic fields better than HDDs. SSDs commonly use less power and result in longer battery life because data access is much faster and the device is idle more often.
Begin typing your search term above and press enter to search. Press ESC to cancel. Research Paper. Ben Davis June 1, How many hours of 4K video can 1TB hold?
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