5 Terabyte hard drives by 2010?

[ImprobabilityDrive]

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/07/04/hitachi_5tb_hdd_2010/

"Hitachi has pledged to release a 5TB 3.5in hard drive within two years, and it claims two of the drives will boast enough capacity to store everything in your brain."

If these come out and are accessible to a good number of people, what I have to wonder is what people would fill these with.

Also, anyone want to bet on how long it will take for us to look back and laugh at how pathetically little these drives could store compared to the latest generation of drives?

 

[i am a teddy]

Entire content of our brains? But couldn't that essentially be infinitly large?

 

[webmasterbob]

Even the human mind has a capacity limit. I for one can't really fathom what people would want to store that could take up that much data. Maybe direct download of everything (movies, games, what have you) will be more of the norm (help save disc material, etc).

 

[Capt. Zeroth]

Hmm, price was not mentioned, but it sounds expensive to make.

Fujitsu's approach uses anodised aluminium to create a pattern of "nanoholes", each holding a portion of magnetic material used to store a single bit of data. The aluminium-oxide surrounding these so-called 'nanoholes' helps magnetically insulate each bit from all the others, preventing one from affecting another, which might lead to data corruption.

There are about 44,000,000,000,000 bits in 5 terabytes.