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Infinite Recursion · Dec 21st, 2006, 10:45 PM

For Christmas, my lovely wife bought me a Western Digital 1 TeraBtye (1TB) Pro Edition II MyBook (external hard drive). It is a dual-drive storage system with RAID and System Recovery Software. This one drive can hold more than all of the computers we own (~640GB), combined.

Here is the poop sheet:

http://www.westerndigital.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=270

Important: The My Book Pro Edition II hard drive ships with a HFS+ (Journaled) format. This Macintosh native format is not compatible with Windows based computers therefore the drive will need to be repartitioned and reformatted before usage in a Windows based computer.

Ever format a hard drive? Try formatting a TB... it has been a long time, and the format has only progressed to 7% complete.

What it can hold:
Up to 284,000 digital photos
Up to 250,000 songs (MP3)
Up to 24,000 songs (uncompressed CD quality)
Up to 76 hours of Digital Video (DV)
Up to 400 hours of DVD quality video
Up to 120 hours of HD video

Note: One gigabyte (GB) = one billion bytes. One terabyte (TB) = one trillion bytes.

If you are interested in external hard drives, check out these links:
http://www.wdmybook.com/en/
http://www.wdmybook.com/en/compare/
http://www.westerndigital.com/en/pro...=5&Language=en

big_k105 · Dec 21st, 2006, 11:01 PM

nice, that should be nice for storing all those programs/scripts and code snippets you are holding on to

DaWei · Dec 21st, 2006, 11:21 PM

I'm thinking there'll be more photos and movies of the li'l one, than snippets

. Nice catch, IR. The drive, too, of course.

bl00dninja · Dec 22nd, 2006, 12:46 AM

Quote:

Up to 400 hours of DVD quality video

porn

:p

Jimbo · Dec 22nd, 2006, 3:59 AM

Fortunately for me, the largest hard drive I have is 500GB, and it's partitioned up so the [increasingly rare] event of reformatting doesn't take too long. I do need to eventually change the 370GB NTFS partition to ext3 though...

Man, the time it would take me to fill 1TB... probably a couple weeks... :o

I think I'll go huggle my 1310GB capacity desktop again... :p

ReggaetonKing · Dec 22nd, 2006, 6:16 AM

Damn, 1 TB huh?! That's awesome! What did you get her for Christmas?

Teecha · Dec 22nd, 2006, 7:25 AM

I got a pink topaz and diamond ring that I've been lusting over for a while now. He was mean yesterday and told me to forget about the ring, that he was through Chritmas shopping and was NOT going to get it! Then he came home from work and gave it to me

So I went ahead and gave him his external hard drive. He knew he was getting one, but he was expecting like a 250 GB one. We still have LOTS to open Christmas morning though

DaWei · Dec 22nd, 2006, 7:30 AM

Don't shake and rattle the others, trying to guess. There might be a terrarium in there....

milot · Dec 22nd, 2006, 7:44 AM

Wow 1TB! largest hard drive I ever had is this 80gb that i have right now! :p

Infinite Recursion · Dec 22nd, 2006, 8:42 AM

I have a pretty good method at guessing gifts... so I know most of what I have under the tree. I must say though, I was very surprised when I saw that the capacity I was expecting increased x4. The largest single drive that I had prior to this was 300GB, definitely an upgrade.

I imagine most of it will be filled with pictures and videos of the baby. But I definitely will use it to store my knowledge base, source code archive, and other files that are important. It wasn't compatible with Linux out of the box, but that's where Samba will come in.

Dec 21st, 2006, 10:45 PM	#1
Infinite Recursion Programming Guru Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: United States Posts: 3,467 Rep Power: 8	Christmas came early! :) For Christmas, my lovely wife bought me a Western Digital 1 TeraBtye (1TB) Pro Edition II MyBook (external hard drive). It is a dual-drive storage system with RAID and System Recovery Software. This one drive can hold more than all of the computers we own (~640GB), combined. Here is the poop sheet: http://www.westerndigital.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=270 Important: The My Book Pro Edition II hard drive ships with a HFS+ (Journaled) format. This Macintosh native format is not compatible with Windows based computers therefore the drive will need to be repartitioned and reformatted before usage in a Windows based computer. Ever format a hard drive? Try formatting a TB... it has been a long time, and the format has only progressed to 7% complete. What it can hold: Up to 284,000 digital photos Up to 250,000 songs (MP3) Up to 24,000 songs (uncompressed CD quality) Up to 76 hours of Digital Video (DV) Up to 400 hours of DVD quality video Up to 120 hours of HD video Note: One gigabyte (GB) = one billion bytes. One terabyte (TB) = one trillion bytes. If you are interested in external hard drives, check out these links: http://www.wdmybook.com/en/ http://www.wdmybook.com/en/compare/ http://www.westerndigital.com/en/pro...=5&Language=en __________________ http://jasonpowers.net "There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root."

Dec 21st, 2006, 11:01 PM	#2
big_k105 PFO Founder Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Fargo, ND Posts: 1,650 Rep Power: 10	nice, that should be nice for storing all those programs/scripts and code snippets you are holding on to __________________ BIG K aka Kyle Programming Forums Kyle K Online Please do not PM or email me programming questions. Post them in the forums instead.

Dec 21st, 2006, 11:21 PM	#3
DaWei Resident Grouch Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 6,453 Rep Power: 10	I'm thinking there'll be more photos and movies of the li'l one, than snippets . Nice catch, IR. The drive, too, of course. __________________ Abstraction doesn't make it impossible to write bad code; it makes it possible to write superior code. Contributor's Corner: Grumpy on C++ Exceptions DaWei on Pointers

Dec 22nd, 2006, 3:59 AM	#5
Jimbo Battle Programmer Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Bellevue, WA, USA Posts: 763 Rep Power: 3	Fortunately for me, the largest hard drive I have is 500GB, and it's partitioned up so the [increasingly rare] event of reformatting doesn't take too long. I do need to eventually change the 370GB NTFS partition to ext3 though... Man, the time it would take me to fill 1TB... probably a couple weeks... :o I think I'll go huggle my 1310GB capacity desktop again... :p __________________ <insert disclaimer here> <insert shameless plug for Visual Studio here>

Dec 22nd, 2006, 6:16 AM	#6
ReggaetonKing Sexy Programmer Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: New Jersey Posts: 891 Rep Power: 3	Damn, 1 TB huh?! That's awesome! What did you get her for Christmas? __________________ I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code!

Dec 22nd, 2006, 7:25 AM	#7
Teecha Newbie Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: U.S. Posts: 13 Rep Power: 0	I got a pink topaz and diamond ring that I've been lusting over for a while now. He was mean yesterday and told me to forget about the ring, that he was through Chritmas shopping and was NOT going to get it! Then he came home from work and gave it to me So I went ahead and gave him his external hard drive. He knew he was getting one, but he was expecting like a 250 GB one. We still have LOTS to open Christmas morning though

Dec 22nd, 2006, 7:30 AM	#8
DaWei Resident Grouch Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 6,453 Rep Power: 10	Don't shake and rattle the others, trying to guess. There might be a terrarium in there.... __________________ Abstraction doesn't make it impossible to write bad code; it makes it possible to write superior code. Contributor's Corner: Grumpy on C++ Exceptions DaWei on Pointers

Dec 22nd, 2006, 7:44 AM	#9
milot Programmer Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Kosov�/Prishtin� Posts: 47 Rep Power: 0	Wow 1TB! largest hard drive I ever had is this 80gb that i have right now! :p

Dec 22nd, 2006, 8:42 AM	#10
Infinite Recursion Programming Guru Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: United States Posts: 3,467 Rep Power: 8	I have a pretty good method at guessing gifts... so I know most of what I have under the tree. I must say though, I was very surprised when I saw that the capacity I was expecting increased x4. The largest single drive that I had prior to this was 300GB, definitely an upgrade. I imagine most of it will be filled with pictures and videos of the baby. But I definitely will use it to store my knowledge base, source code archive, and other files that are important. It wasn't compatible with Linux out of the box, but that's where Samba will come in. __________________ http://jasonpowers.net "There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root."

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