Wednesday, March 1, 2006

The 8-terabyte desktop

You can never be too rich, be too thin or have too much hard drive capacity, according to VoodooPC. The gamer PC specialist later this year will launch a desktop PC with 16 hard drives, according to Raul Sood, VoodooPC president. In all, the system will be capable of holding <A HREF="http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1040_22-6044142.html?tag=zdnn.alert">eight terabytes of data.</A> That's the same amount of information you could store on the paper from 400,000 trees, according to a UC Berkeley research study. Academic research libraries typically contain about 2TB of data. VoodooPC's hard drive obsession comes courtesy of Vista, the new operating system coming from Microsoft later this year. Microsoft and PC makers will promote Vista as a way to turn PCs into home entertainment centers. Video, and in particular high-definition video, can gobble up storage fast. Depending on the standard and the compression, HD video can require anywhere from 11 to 410 gigabytes per hour of video. (1,000GB make up 1TB.)

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